Any of you guys ever live in Virginia?

I lived in the blue ridge mountains for several years and it was awesome. Virginia is beautiful and the four seasons were great. Never too hot or too cold. Culturally, still pretty southern in a lot of the state.

I worked in Virginia Beach about 25 years ago, that’s all I got
I worked near the naval base

Some dude named Saddam Azlan Salim is trying to take away Virginians 2nd Amendment rights.

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Not blistering hot in summer and not miserably cold in winter.

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LOL
it’s both of those things

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I lived in the blue ridge mountains for several years and it was awesome. Virginia is beautiful and the four seasons were great. Never too hot or too cold. Culturally, still pretty southern in a lot of the state.

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I was there for college and agree with you. There’s a reason people go there to retire. Some fantastic properties, great views and hiking along Blue ridge, and it’s very accessible to DC along with still having southern charm. I plan to retire near there (or maybe NC or TN)

Umm. It’s blistering hot in the summer.


I’m a native Virginian and would return to the western part of the state. Democrats have pretty much ruined everything else.

Oh and frick NOVA

Avoid the coast, Richmond, and Nova, and it’s a great state. It would be even better without the blue DC spillover.

Four seasons, mountains, lakes.

I grew up there and loved it.

Weather is not as good as you imagine. Gets pretty hot in the middle of summer and you get snow/freezing in winter. Allergies/pollen are bad too.

The whole mountains on one side, ocean on the other is overrated. Most people rarely or never bother with the hassle of making those long car trips, especially when you can just hop a plane and go to much better beaches or mountains. That obviously doesn't apply if you actually live on the beach or Blue Ridge mountains.

The old "purple state" politics is also extremely overrated. They basically embrace the worst of both sides of the aisle. Some of that is based on the fact they border DC so a lot of political venom spills over and turns it into a hyper-charged battleground. Politics is front and center and it's ugly.

They are particularly Nazi-like when it comes to cars; the worst of any state in the union. Any ticket or traffic violation gets the book thrown at you - cracked taillight, roll through a stopsign, etc - bend over. And they have an outrageous property tax on cars - something like 5% every year. A lot of middle class people just drive beaters because they don't want to pay the Nazi regime $1,000 - 2,000 every year just for the pleasure of owning a car. And of course beaters tend to attract traffic tickets so we come around full circle.

The state has been flooded with illegal immigrants. I think over 10% of the population was now born outside the United States and it gets worse every year - by design. And these aren't just roofers and dishwashers from northern Mexico. They come from all over - Asia, Africa, random sh*thole, etc.

About the only two positives I can say are: (1) there's a little bit of everything if you value a diverse interest range and (2) there are some really good public universities if you have kids heading towards college.

If you're looking for something brackish in terms of the north/south divide, I think the area west of Appalachia is better - northern TN and Arkansas, Kentucky, southern Indiana and Ohio.

Yeah. Unfortunately, VA has sh*t the bed and unrecognizable now. A shame.

Never lived there but I have been through many parts of it, particularly the Shenandoah and SW parts, but also Richmond and NVA. It's pretty liberal around NVA and DC, and pretty conservative elsewhere. It's a beautiful state, especially the western parts near I-81.

We've considered moving to SW Virginia. Used to like Winchester, but DC has kind of changing the character there.