Would you like to live in Fairfax County?

[Asher]

Yup.

While expensive, it's a great place if you spend a lot of time outdoors. The county has lots of outdoors activities options. It's very close to "the City"(DC) without having to deal with the spillover of the riff raff(like Prince Georges County or Alexandria). Plenty of museums/historical sites, etc. Good mass transit. If you have kids it's one of the best public school systems in the country. And the mountains are a relatively short drive.

There are no mountains near Fairfax.

There are hills.

[Ben Kenobi]

I go on PATC work crews a couple of times a quarter. For some reason you strike me as the type that drives up and down Skyline Drive and considers taking a photo at a overlook "visiting Shenandoah".

Interesting, why would you think this?

I used to take trips hiking along the logging trails out where I'm from to kill an afternoon. And, there are LOTS of logging trails out where I'm from. I could literally drive 500 miles and never see another soul.

I might add that if "I want to live somewhere near Shenandoah because I like the outside" is a bit of a dogwhistle to me that you don't really go outside and are kinda flailing about. GWNF has just as beautiful country and is more isolated, compared to the Shennies where you aren't more than a couple of miles Skyline Drive anywhere in the park.

As I said, I really don't know much about Virginia, and never claimed otherwise. Personally, if I were to take a trip out there I would want to go see all the civil war battlefields.

For a place to live, I like the countryside, and yes, I've seen pictures of the Shenandoah and it looks wonderful. It reminds me of home where the trees all fade and the light frost over the fields turning everything shiny.

I grew up on a farm, Lonestar. I am not a city person and never have been.

[Lonestar]

There are no mountains near Fairfax.

There are hills.

No, I must be imagining the Blue Ridge. My Bad.

[Lonestar]

Interesting, why would you think this?

I used to take trips hiking along the logging trails out where I'm from to kill an afternoon. And, there are LOTS of logging trails out where I'm from. I could literally drive 500 miles and never see another soul.



As I said, I really don't know much about Virginia, and never claimed otherwise. Personally, if I were to take a trip out there I would want to go see all the civil war battlefields.

For a place to live, I like the countryside, and yes, I've seen pictures of the Shenandoah and it looks wonderful. It reminds me of home where the trees all fade and the light frost over the fields turning everything shiny.

I grew up on a farm, Lonestar. I am not a city person and never have been.

So you chose A collegetown, which conviently gives you all the comforts of a large town but hey it's "small". And of course yoi moved to one of the largest CITIES in Texas...

[Hauldren Collider]

Hey Ben, did you pick San Antonio for the rural feel or the large volume of other illegal immigrants?

[Ben Kenobi]

Hey Ben, did you pick San Antonio for the rural feel or the large volume of other illegal immigrants?

Neither.

[Ben Kenobi]

So you chose A collegetown, which conviently gives you all the comforts of a large town but hey it's "small". And of course yoi moved to one of the largest CITIES in Texas...

And, your point? I used to live on the east side of Vancouver, which is as urban as it gets west of the mississippi, other than maybe San Francisco or downtown LA.

SA is much smaller and much less dense. Have you ever been here?

[Lonestar]

And, your point? I used to live on the east side of Vancouver, which is as urban as it gets west of the mississippi, other than maybe San Francisco or downtown LA.

SA is much smaller and much less dense. Have you ever been here?

I go there once a quarter, numbnuts. And "Sprawl" is not "no way man it isn't urban!"

[Lonestar]

PROTIP: If your city is big enough that it has a Federal Interstate Beltway...it's a ****ing city.

[Ben Kenobi]

I go there once a quarter, numbnuts. And "Sprawl" is not "no way man it isn't urban!"

So you base your entire opinion of me based on my location field, and the fact that you don't know where I would like to live in SA, assume that I would want to live downtown (I don't), and assume that it's all about me....

Making quite a few assumptions here, lad. Maybe you should be stopping to ask yourself what are some reasons why someone would want to live fairly close to a large city that have nothing to do with personal preference?

[Lonestar]

So you base your entire opinion of me based on my location field, and the fact that you don't know where I would like to live in SA, assume that I would want to live downtown (I don't), and assume that it's all about me....

Making quite a few assumptions here, lad. Maybe you should be stopping to ask yourself what are some reasons why someone would want to live fairly close to a large city that have nothing to do with personal preference?

"I DIDN'T CHOOSE TO LIVE IN A BIG CITY! I CHOSE TO LIVE IN THE SUBURBS OF A BIG CITY! TOTALLY DIFFERENT! I'M A RURAL GUY."

[Ben Kenobi]

"I DIDN'T CHOOSE TO LIVE IN A BIG CITY! I CHOSE TO LIVE IN THE SUBURBS OF A BIG CITY! TOTALLY DIFFERENT! I'M A RURAL GUY."

Wow, a rural snob. I didn't think I'd run into one of those here at Poly. So where do you live that's so impressively rural?

Is it larger than 160 acres?

[Hauldren Collider]

I vastly prefer the suburbs to an actual city, but I am not a rural guy. You are not either, Ben.

[giblets]

The suburbs are more urban than rural, without a doubt.

[Ben Kenobi]

I vastly prefer the suburbs to an actual city, but I am not a rural guy. You are not either, Ben

Well, I'm afraid I didn't grow up with 17 bathrooms per person. But yes, I grew up on a farm. My first job was brushing out woodlots and I did that for years. Between that and planting, it covered about half my school.