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Atlanta suburbs and Montgomery County, MD suburbs.
NOVA is significantly more diverse than the Atlanta suburbs (which are still very diverse suburbs). But NOVA is on another level IMO. Montgomery County is similar yes, but NOVA is like 3 million people now so MoCo takes a back seat to it in the DC region. Montgomery County is actually a minority-majority county and very diverse also similar to Northern NJ.
NOVA is significantly more diverse than the Atlanta suburbs (which are still very diverse suburbs). But NOVA is on another level IMO. Montgomery County is similar yes, but NOVA is like 3 million people now so MoCo takes a back seat to it in the DC region. Montgomery County is actually a minority-majority county and very diverse also similar to Northern NJ.
The Maryland suburbs have no collective identity as the Virginia suburbs do. There are a few reasons for that.
NOVA is significantly more diverse than the Atlanta suburbs (which are still very diverse suburbs). But NOVA is on another level IMO. Montgomery County is similar yes, but NOVA is like 3 million people now so MoCo takes a back seat to it in the DC region. Montgomery County is actually a minority-majority county and very diverse also similar to Northern NJ.
Yeah, I don't get the Atlanta comparisons. Aesthetically, they do look somewhat similar, especially the super suburban parts of NoVa like Chantilly or Ashburn but in terms of the feel and culture, they're very different imo.
Like someone else said, NoVa is a more boring, bland and less cultured version of NJ.
Not to speak for Mutiny, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that when you look at the historic differences you've got between, say PG County and Montgomery, it starts to be clearer. So nah, it never really developed the same kind of unified identity.
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Like someone else said, NoVa is a more boring, bland and less cultured version of NJ.
I think that might be taking the comparison a hair too far.
Yeah, I don't get the Atlanta comparisons. Aesthetically, they do look somewhat similar, especially the super suburban parts of NoVa like Chantilly or Ashburn but in terms of the feel and culture, they're very different imo.
Like someone else said, NoVa is a more boring, bland and less cultured version of NJ.
NoVa developed later in life compared to Northern NJ hence all of those qualities. But as an aside, I'd prefer to live in Northern NJ.
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Yeah, I don't get the Atlanta comparisons. Aesthetically, they do look somewhat similar, especially the super suburban parts of NoVa like Chantilly or Ashburn but in terms of the feel and culture, they're very different imo.
Like someone else said, NoVa is a more boring, bland and less cultured version of NJ.
Correct NOVA feels a lot more "advanced" for lack of a better word or "cosmopolitan" than much of suburban Atlanta. Depending on what part of Jersey specifically, or what part of NOVA, I tend to agree with you.
Not to speak for Mutiny, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that when you look at the historic differences you've got between, say PG County and Montgomery, it starts to be clearer. So nah, it never really developed the same kind of unified identity.
Yup, that's a major reason. Also MD is a smaller state and it doesn't take long before you're crossing from DC's 'burbs to Baltimore's. And thirdly, NoVA has more federal agencies and installations than suburban MD.
Coming from someone from metro DC, who has also spent a lot of time in NJ, NoVa doesn't really feel ANYTHING like northern NJ, since it doesn't have much local flavor, has a ton of transplants, and political structures are more at the county level in NoVa, but northern NJ has very strong municipalities and townships.
To me, NoVa demographically and culturally feels like a more diverse version of the Eastside suburbs of Seattle, or a less diverse version of the South Bay of the SF Bay Area. Obviously there are climatic and topographical differences, but the people in NoVa seem more similar to those in places like Redmond, WA and Bellevue, WA.
To an extent, NoVa feels similar to the northern suburbs of Atlanta, the northern suburbs of Dallas, and parts of Orange County, CA, but politically it's VERY different from those areas and much more similar to the eastside suburbs of Seattle or the Silicon Valley.
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