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More like suburban New Jersey, and even then, that's a stretch. It feels more like a less southern version of the Atlanta suburbs (which also has a lot of Northeastern transplants)
I tend to agree.
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Originally Posted by Diff1
What in the Atlanta metro area is comparable to Alexandria VA?
Nothing in metro Atlanta is really comparable to Old Town Alexandria (which is a tiny part of NoVA) but outside of that, there are certainly more similarities.
What in the Atlanta metro area is comparable to Alexandria VA?
Nothing really, maybe Downtown Decatur, but that's more like Clarendon or North Arlington. I'm referring to the sprawling suburbia that constitutes much of NOVA like Centreville, Sterling, Reston, Woodbridge, Tysons, etc. when I compare it to the Atlanta Metro area. Old Town Alexandria is a very small and minute -albeit an important part of NOVA in the grand scheme of things. Its a wonderful area and really isn't duplicated in most parts of the Southeast (with a few exceptions).
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Nothing really, maybe Downtown Decatur, but that's more like Clarendon or North Arlington. I'm referring to the sprawling suburbia that constitutes much of NOVA like Centreville, Sterling, Reston, Woodbridge, Tysons, etc. when I compare it to the Atlanta Metro area. Old Town Alexandria is a very small and minute -albeit an important part of NOVA in the grand scheme of things. Its a wonderful area and really isn't duplicated in most parts of the Southeast (with a few exception).
Hmmm..people forget, there's a lot more to NoVA than Old Town, Alexandria. People crawl past on I-95 through the northern quarter of the state and see all the names of towns and cities, but did you know that most of them have a quaint, cohesive and historic downtown with their own independent character? It's the rule, not the exception. Alexandria is close to DC, has the people and gets the glory but look at for example:
Like Mutiny mentioned, Northern VA is an area of the state that happens to be a crucial part of the DC region/DMV. Yes it has its sprawl, but by and large is a collection of unique communities in their own right.
Nothing really, maybe Downtown Decatur, but that's more like Clarendon or North Arlington. I'm referring to the sprawling suburbia that constitutes much of NOVA like Centreville, Sterling, Reston, Woodbridge, Tysons, etc. when I compare it to the Atlanta Metro area. Old Town Alexandria is a very small and minute -albeit an important part of NOVA in the grand scheme of things. Its a wonderful area and really isn't duplicated in most parts of the Southeast (with a few exception).
Hmmm..people forget, there's a lot more to NoVA than Old Town, Alexandria and pseudo-city office parks on steroids. People crawl past on I-95 through the northern quarter of the state and see all the names of towns and cities, but did you know that most of them have a quaint, cohesive and historic downtown with their own independent character? It's the rule, not the exception. Alexandria is close to DC, has the people and gets the glory but look at for example:
Like Mutiny mentioned, Northern VA is an area of the state that happens to be a crucial part of the DC region/DMV. Yes it has its sprawl, but by and large is a collection of unique communities in their own right.
Hmmm..people forget, there's a lot more to NoVA than Old Town, Alexandria. People crawl past on I-95 through the northern quarter of the state and see all the names of towns and cities, but did you know that most of them have a quaint, cohesive and historic downtown with their own independent character? It's the rule, not the exception. Alexandria is close to DC, has the people and gets the glory but look at for example:
Like Mutiny mentioned, Northern VA is an area of the state that happens to be a crucial part of the DC region/DMV. Yes it has its sprawl, but by and large is a collection of unique communities in their own right.
Great findings on GSV. I live in the DMV, so I know that. Lots of cities in Metro Atlanta have quaint, historic cohesive downtowns as well, Marietta, Roswell, Decatur, Fayetteville, Lawrenceville, to name a few. To me, it makes NOVA and Metro Atlanta very similar in that regard.
I feel that Old Town Alexandria is definitely the outlier in terms of its size compared the other cities in NOVA you mentioned that share those characteristics plus its access to DC due to public transportation and the redevelopment projects. There's nothing in Metro Atlanta that is on the scale of Old Town.
Hmmm..people forget, there's a lot more to NoVA than Old Town, Alexandria and pseudo-city office parks on steroids. People crawl past on I-95 through the northern quarter of the state and see all the names of towns and cities, but did you know that most of them have a quaint, cohesive and historic downtown with their own independent character? It's the rule, not the exception. Alexandria is close to DC, has the people and gets the glory but look at for example:
Like Mutiny mentioned, Northern VA is an area of the state that happens to be a crucial part of the DC region/DMV. Yes it has its sprawl, but by and large is a collection of unique communities in their own right.
Metro Atlanta, particularly the northern suburbs, have communities with historic downtowns like those as well (with the exception of Fredericksburg, which seems to not really be considered NoVA).
DC is substantially smaller than atlanta proper in land area, so a place like alexandria would be within atl's city limits. Perhaps buckhead?
Alexandria actually used to be within DC's city limits. Atlanta doesn't have an Old Town equivalent anywhere in the metro, including the city proper. Alexandria was settled in the colonial era nearly a century before Atlanta so it makes sense.
What in the Atlanta metro area is comparable to Alexandria VA?
Buckhead. Even there, not so much.
NoVA looks and feels far less southern than Austin.
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