im in northern VA.. live next to Potomac Mills mall in woodbridge. i've never lived anywhere else, so im used to everything. Driving to DC everyday (take HOV to get there twice as fast during rush hour) or driving to go out in DC. if you want a bigger hose with lots of land, look up stafford/fredericksburg areas, or even Manassas.

houses cost a bit more up here, but salaries are higher too. commute sucks wherever you go during rushhour, so you can either avoid it or theres other ways around it (metro/bus/HOV)

 

There's always southeast VA where I live. We have the railroad which pays well. Plus about a dozen or more shipyards to work at like I do and all the different company that subcontract at all of them. Housing is pretty cheap here to. We have a 1500 sq ft 4 bedroom house we got for $150k. I imagine that's cheaper than living up there.

 

In southwest va quite a lot of people still think everyone needs "churchn" and everything that's associated with that. The state is blue but southwest va is mostly red. It is somewhat diverse, I guess. But not really. Where I live, near Blacksburg. There's about jack for jobs honestly. At least big industry or anything like that. It' all left long ago to go up north. But on the plus it's pretty quiet and the rednecks mostly keep to themselves.

 

The State has an impressive unemployment rate compared to the national average and is just a couple of tenths higher than Oklahoma's.

So far, I like what I'm learning.

 

Which is why I dont live in Blacksburg anymore....You got Va. Tech as the big employee there. Radford Arsonal and Volvo in Radford, Celanese in Narrows. Beautiful country there though, and we all know Virginia is for Lovers.....

 

Why dont you live here? Which reason haha. Im currently attending tech and volvo is in Dublin right down the road from the high school

 

No jobs in my line of work.....I went to NRCC.

 

Did some cursory house hunting last night and found a couple of really nice properties. One is a fantastic house built in the 1880's w/ a cellar and a humongous barn on 10 acres. Everything about it gives me a serious woodrow. We aren't in the market yet, but the g/f is going to check it out as it's not too far from where she lives and there's a lot about that place that she likes.

Thanks for the feedback, folks. Virginia sounds more and more like a great place.

 

Gary you host the up coming annual VA dodge forum 2nd gen party on your giant property

 

So when you coming over Gary?