What are the Northern VA DC suburbs like?

lots of very fine earrings

only the BEST caftans

in olden days the glimpse of stocking. . .

Was looked on as something shocking Now heaven knows, anything goes

tight corsets

beehive do's

Smug and with small reason for it (like the whole DC area.)

High cost of living. Pretty liberal and diverse population. Wide variety of housing, but again... expensive.

Old Town Alexandria is very nice, as are many of the other neighborhoods in Alexandria. The rest of Northern Virginia is suburban sprawl.

I lived in NoVa for 4 years in the 90”s.. Loved it

I’m here now. Grew up here. Fled from NYC for the summer. What specifically are you wondering?

It’s a nice place to live. Safe. Green.

Houses are increasingly expensive. My parents bought their house for $150,000 in 1984 and it would sell now for $1.2 million. Strictly based on location.

Area is a bit more conservative politically than the Maryland suburbs of DC (maybe not Alexandria but McLean, Great Falls, Reston).

I live here, and r5 is sadly right. The problem is the people who move here for politics and get a big head. But get to know people who grew up here, like me. Most of my high-school friends stayed, so the area must be doing something right.

It’s a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there.

My two brother live there and when they were commuting to work their lives were beyond hectic.

I lived there from 78-87, so my information isn't very current. I had a very basic three-level/2BR-1.5BA in Fairfax County. When I left in 87, it sold for under $100K. I wonder what it's worth now.

Put it like this: there will never be a Real Housewives of Alexandria. Good reason too.

R12 - probably so much. You would be shocked. My parents don’t even live in a fancy neighborhood (we lived in the less affluent development growing up) but the houses around us are now selling for $1 million and up. Buyers are just knocking them down and building those horrible McMansions. It’s actually depressing to see the older architecture vanishing each time I visit. But I guess that’s the way of the future....

Great area, but historically horrible traffic. It takes forever to get anywhere. I bought a condo in Falls Church in 2000 for $140,000 and four years later sold it for $280,000. NoVa is great, and if you avoid going during rush hours, there's lot to do in D.C.

very soccer-y

Is the City of Fairfax still Jesus Central? It seemed that way during the '90s.

R17 - a little bit less so than the 90s but pretty much yeah?

There are some parts that are fairly dense and interesting , but once you get past that it is just bland suburban sprawl.

Expensive.