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Old 06-29-2010, 05:38 PM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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Actually the quintessential yuppie NOVA family has a luxury sports sedan (BMW, Benz, Lexus, etc) for dad and a giant SUV with youth sports (Soccer for the younger kids, Lacrosse for the olders), prestige school (TJ, St. Stephens, etc.), and fave vacation spot (Duck, OBX) stickers on the back for mom. You know this is true.

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Old 06-29-2010, 06:06 PM
 
Location: Brambleton, VA
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Actually the quintessential yuppie NOVA family has a luxury sports sedan (BMW, Benz, Lexus, etc) for dad and a giant SUV with youth sports (Soccer for the younger kids, Lacrosse for the olders), prestige school (TJ, St. Stephens, etc.), and fave vacation spot (Duck, OBX) stickers on the back for mom. You know this is true.
Don't forget the line drawing silhouettes of family members on the back window. On the SUV, of course, not the sedan.
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Old 06-29-2010, 06:32 PM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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Don't forget the line drawing silhouettes of family members on the back window. On the SUV, of course, not the sedan.
Yes!
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Old 06-29-2010, 07:11 PM
 
Location: South South Jersey
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No.

If you think this is a car-oriented culture, you have not been to the West Coast.
Um, don't you think that's a pretty broad generalization? NoVA is a much smaller area than the entire "West Coast." And I sincerely hope you don't mean the small towns on the Oregon coast. Or a place like Anacortes, WA. The last time I was in that general area, I saw a lot of pickups. (I've lived in a small town, though, so I know that there most definitely can be pickup snobbery.) And the natives absolutely hated the 'damn Californians' (even though there are plenty of very rural Californians - I'm not sure if these are the people they meant, though).
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Old 06-29-2010, 07:19 PM
 
Location: South South Jersey
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Actually the quintessential yuppie NOVA family has a luxury sports sedan (BMW, Benz, Lexus, etc) for dad and a giant SUV with youth sports (Soccer for the younger kids, Lacrosse for the olders), prestige school (TJ, St. Stephens, etc.), and fave vacation spot (Duck, OBX) stickers on the back for mom. You know this is true.
I love the Outer Banks. And I can't blame 'moms' in the area for wanting to escape this literal pile of crap to spend time there. What is 'Duck?' [NM - just looked it up. I didn't go that far north when I was in 'OBX.' ]

(BTW, my parents drove Audis, and then BMWs, when I was growing up. Now they have a Cayenne and a Carerra. But they also have taste, dammit, and they'd be raising hell if they had to live in a place that looks the way most of Fairfax County does. Why is it that the 'yuppies' around here don't care that the public/commercial areas of their communities look like?)

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Old 06-29-2010, 07:44 PM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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What is 'Duck?'
Just ask one of your neighbors. I'm sure they'll say they love it:

Town of Duck, NC
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Old 06-29-2010, 07:53 PM
 
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No.

If you think this is a car-oriented culture, you have not been to the West Coast.

This is a much more prestige job-, kids' education- ("my son attends TJ!" "Yeah? My kid goes to National Cathedral") and real estate-oriented culture.

I totally agree. Add foreign exotic travel, and you've nailed the area.
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Old 06-29-2010, 07:58 PM
 
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Why is it that the 'yuppies' around here don't care that the public/commercial areas of their communities look like?
Have you talked to your supervisor and volunteered to join the committees and boards that work to improve them?
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Old 06-29-2010, 08:11 PM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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Why is it that the 'yuppies' around here don't care that the public/commercial areas of their communities look like?)
I have noticed that folks here tend toward the "business/industrial park" landscaping genre. I chalk it up to lack of imagination and the fact that what they see at work is about all they know about it. Either that or that's what their "landscaping service" tells them to do.
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Old 06-29-2010, 10:04 PM
 
Location: South South Jersey
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Have you talked to your supervisor and volunteered to join the committees and boards that work to improve them?
Fortunately, there's no more Fairfax County for me!! (Except when we go out to Fair Oaks for our weekly Costco run. Oh, and out the window of the train, when I'm going to DC. )

I seriously would like to volunteer with the Fairfax City government. I'll probably start by volunteering a few hours a week at the Museum and Visitor Center, since it's a couple blocks from where I'm currently living. But I do want to segue into more actual decision-making-organizational stuff in time. This is all very new to me. The fact is, I never really felt a need to get involved in local politics at all before moving to NoVA.

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I have noticed that folks here tend toward the "business/industrial park" landscaping genre. I chalk it up to lack of imagination and the fact that what they see at work is about all they know about it. Either that or that's what their "landscaping service" tells them to do.
My SO and I were just talking about this a few hours ago, actually. I said I couldn't really blame those NoVAns who've never really lived anywhere else for what I've sometimes assumed is aesthetic apathy, since they would have nothing to measure NoVA against.
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