What do you think about Virginia?

Be wealthy. If you’re looking at horse country, you’ll need a lot of money. Property taxes are high, and you’ll pay personal property taxes on each car. Think $10K per year for every $400K in assessed property value for your property taxes.

It’s not New Jersey bad, but New Jerseyians are fleeing and trashing up Delaware now.

I like the Charlottesville-Staunton area. It's beautiful. The rest you can skip.

I hear it's for lovers.

Racist, hot, humid, prone to hurricanes...what's not to love?

Virginia is generally not highly taxed, the rate in my city is $1.20 per $100 of assessed value, and my assessment is low. The city I live in is considered expensive, but it’s much less expensive than Massachusetts, where I grew up, and the counties surrounding me have even lower taxes.

Any state that limits buying alcohol to state liquor stores is questionable.

You can buy beer and wine in grocery stores, but you’re right about hard liquor. There’s been various proposals to privatize the Alcoholic Beverage Commission (ABC) Store system, but to no avail.

R6. Yes, that law is idiotic, but you can buy beer and wine in grocery stores.

It’s the state that’ll win you!

Betcha you’ll like it if you should strike it!

It's a sissy state with a stupid girl's name! I'm sorry but it's TRUE.

Must be heaven. (though I don't think of West Virginia as 'almost heaven')

There is DC suburbs Virginia, which has now grown to be 37% of the states population. and the rest of the state. It's basically two completely different places.

Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. I prefer living in the city, but not Richmond.

LOVE her!

I guess for a Southern state, it's pretty liberal-ish, depending on where you live, right?

Boris, if you want to find out more about Virginia for your database why don’t you Google it or visit it instead of posting on a gay message board.

What’s Vladivostok like? Is it really for lovers?

It’s beautiful in the mountains. Very liberal around Charlottesville, Richmond, Northern Va. You can get a cheap farmette around the Staunton area. Nelson county is popular with hippy gentlemen farmers.

This being Datalounge, you'd better goddamn well ADORE me.

Western Loudoun County. Not cheap but still beautiful. Wineries, horses, nice towns.

Albemarle County has some of the most beautiful real estate in the country. I would definitely consider it as a retirement home. Good hospital, large student population, stunning scenery. Remember in the 90s you could get an old estate for $500,000. Now it’s millions. The wealth generated in DC in the past 2 decades has swamped VA. NoVA is overpriced suburbia. But southwest VA is beautiful. But a heavy mix of Deplorables surround Charlottesville.

My mother has a vacation home in the Shenandoah Valley on 45 acres of land, with a river on each side of the property. Its really beautiful back in there but its also a little remote for me, in that part of the state each town is about 20 minute from each other, the biggest town around being Harrisonburg. I was just there for a week, but the drive from Chicago to Virginia is a long trip. I don't think I would ever want to live there full time, not even if I were living in Washington DC.

Agree R21 . But that house combined with an apartment in DC would be a nice life. You’re lucky to have that option.

The people who work in our offices in Virginia are aggressively stupid.

So towns in horse country Middleburg, Little Washington, Hume leave a lot to be desired. They're boring as fuck, Washington is like 3 buildings.

I’d love to have Sissy Spacek as a neighbor.

For a weekend place, VA horse country is nice. The anti-Hamptons. You can socialize in DC during the week.

I don’t think she really bought that letter about Santa shit and remained a disbeliever.

It's got everything: a beach on the East, mountains (purple!) in the west, rivers, caves, and lots of historical landmarks.

Well calling Virginia Beach and actual beach may be an overstatement. But the mountains are beautiful and you get the Southern architecture without being too far from non-Deplorable civilization.

[quote]Well calling Virginia Beach and actual beach

Can you clarify that statement? The boardwalk area is touristy and filled with lots of Jersey. But Sandbridge and North Virginia Beach are very beachy.

It smells like fish!

North Carolina has better mountains and better beaches though r28.

R32, I will concede that NC has better beaches (I love Wrightsville and Nags Head), but NOT better mountains. Perhaps you should make a thread about NC.

I lived in Fairfax county and loved it

I lived in Charlottesville and really loved it.

I hope you know you’re helping Russian spies and trolls take over the US by giving them all these little nuances about our culture.

North Carolina has more mountains that are higher and more beautiful. And Asheville is a far more interesting city than Charlottesville.

It can get pretty damned rednecky and remote (no where decent to shop) outside the major metros. Vabeach/Norfolk and Eastern shore are super trashy. Staunton/Harrisonburg/Roanoke areas are picturesque but middle of no where if you are ok with that. Manasass /Fairfax super spendy. Richmond is supposed to be ok but just not my scene.

My daddy's people are from Culpeper.

Younger DL'er's may not be familiar with what the phrase "house in Virginia" means...

VA Beach and Norfolk are very military and boring,- that area has horrid traffic, and it's also sinking.

I hear she still believes in Santa Claus.

I performed a monologue there

Ultimately she did make them wait, as Catholic girls do start much too late.

I prefer West Virginia. The meth and oxy are cheaper.

Plain.

Yes Virginia Beach is Jersey shore like - less beachy more Coney Islandy

Most proper Virginians avoid Va Beach in favor of NC beaches, which are only a little farther. Many people also have “rivah” houses, places on the Rappahannock, the York, and Potomac rivers, leading out to the Bay. In places like Irvington, Mathews, and Gloucester, there are still remnants of the old Tidewater aristocracy around. You can still see it in establishments like the Tides Inn.

Interesting R48 - I’ve known many old Virginians who seem to consider a River house the way Northeasterners view beach houses. Guess there is a history to it.

R41 Yes, lots of deplorables there. Still nice aspects though.

Thanks everyone. I think we'll look around Charlottesville and that general area.

I'd also look at Fredericksburg. It's a small "old town" college town, about 40 miles south of DC.

I don't.

Thanks, R52 - will definitely have a look!

Bumping this thread since cannot start a "tasteful friends" thread, but wanted to note passing of David Easton star architect who did Albemarle House in Charlottesville...