Congratulations to Vienna, etc.

By: Lowell
Published On: 7/12/2005 1:00:00 AM

As many of you probably know, Vienna, Virginia was named by Money Magazine as the fourth best place to live in the country.  Among other things, Vienna was cited for its historical feel, "its jobs and schools," and of course its "[m]usic, dance and opera run year round in both indoor and outdoor theaters at Wolf Trap, the nation's only national park for performing arts."  Congratulations!

Other Virginia finalists include historic Yorktown (#33), in the Hampton Roads area; Midlothian (#37), just west of Richmond; and beautiful Charlottesville (#90), home of the University of Virginia, Monticello (home of Thomas Jefferson), Ash Lawn-Highland (home of James Monroe), and, of course, the famous flower garden of Waldo Jaquith.

Whoever said Virginia wasn't a great place to live?

Comments



Obviously Money Maga (Tom Joad (Kevin) - 4/4/2006 11:27:14 PM)
Obviously Money Magazine never heard of a little place called Colonial Beach...


Annie: Well said! (Sam Penney - 4/4/2006 11:27:14 PM)


It's all fine and we (Annie - 4/4/2006 11:27:14 PM)
It's all fine and well to pat ourselves on the back, but we have much, much more work to do! There are many places being left behind in VA even in NOVA. 

Sure there's McMansions going up in Annandale but last night gangs sprayed graffiti all over cars and dumpsters in the Heritage Drive area, the strip malls have seen better days and the biggest store in Annandale, the K-Mart is a complete junk shop.

And the day laborers have no place to go to find work expect to string out along Little River Turnpike in numbers less than five or else the cops will be called and they get arrested. This mornings Wash Post notes that the citizens of Herndon are solidly against providing a place for day laborers to gather so the guys there are probably in a similar sad pathetic state too.

I'd love to see a discussion started on how to make all of VA "Money Magazine Worthy" and hopefully get our candidates thinking and talking about what they will do to revitalize areas being left behind by the boom times.

First off I'd dearly love to see more of an attempt to make inner 'burbs like Annandale become more urban in character by the addition of more public transportation (Purple Line anyone??) and special incentives for businesses to locate in the core business district along Little River Turnpike/Columbia Pike/John Marr Drive area.  What about the Korean business owners??? Why aren't they lobbying for this?