Munchkin76 Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Major~ I know you are teacher and we appreciate it. But you can't sit there and say the West Virginians are paying to educate our kids. WE are paying to educate the kids. With our increased taxes. We just see it differently and that's fine. LOL! I appreciate your frankness and definitely take your points into consideration. Even if I think you are wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DjTj Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Major~I know you are teacher and we appreciate it. But you can't sit there and say the West Virginians are paying to educate our kids. WE are paying to educate the kids. With our increased taxes. But if the teachers couldn't live in West Virginia, you would have to pay them more. Or settle for worse teachers.Teachers aren't moving out to West Virginia because they want to hang out with Major; it's because there is cheap and available housing. If Loudon were willing to build more houses, nobody would be moving out to West Virginia. When you decide NOT to build houses and NOT to pay your teachers more, you are increasing the traffic on your roads. That's just the reality of the situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munchkin76 Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 But if the teachers couldn't live in West Virginia, you would have to pay them more. Or settle for worse teachers.Teachers aren't moving out to West Virginia because they want to hang out with Major; it's because there is cheap and available housing. If Loudon were willing to build more houses, nobody would be moving out to West Virginia. When you decide NOT to build houses and NOT to pay your teachers more, you are increasing the traffic on your roads. That's just the reality of the situation. I agree fully. Truth be told, teachers SHOULD make more. As should the paid firemen, police officers and so on. You will get no argument from me on that one. As someone else posted, it's a shame that the middle class often can't make it in NOVA. They generally have to rent an apartment or something like that (and the rates are astronomical) or have to live elsewhere. So I get it. They make too much to get any sort of assistance and not enough to afford it here. They really need to focus on building affordable housing for those public servants. Certainly it would help with traffic, bit it would still be a huge problem because they aren't ALL teachers, firemen and police officers. Trust me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TODD Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Interesting supplement to this article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/17/AR2006111700396.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted November 17, 2006 Author Share Posted November 17, 2006 Interesting supplement to this article:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/17/AR2006111700396.html Good find Todd. Thats what happens when the current housing on the market is saturated. I dont have the numbers for Loudoun, but the average time on market for a SFH in Fairfax county is 84 days, compared with 36 days 1 year ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOF44 Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 When you decide NOT to build houses and NOT to pay your teachers more, you are increasing the traffic on your roads. That's just the reality of the situation. The same is true though if you build more houses. You are increasing the traffic flow on your roads. The real problem is the builders do not pay a "fair' share of the improvments that the development they profit from requires. They look at their bottom line, and I can't blame them for this. If Loudoun ups its requirements for proffers lets say and you can make more money by building in WV thats what you do. The neighboring counties need to work together to keep this from happening. It will benefit them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Harris Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 The same is true though if you build more houses. You are increasing the traffic flow on your roads. The real problem is the builders do not pay a "fair' share of the improvments that the development they profit from requires. They look at their bottom line, and I can't blame them for this. If Loudoun ups its requirements for proffers lets say and you can make more money by building in WV thats what you do. The neighboring counties need to work together to keep this from happening. It will benefit them all. very true. just ask people in morgan and hardy counties. now that it's getting expensive to live in jefferson county (most new homes are upward of 300k), they're getting it now. jefferson county, 2 years ago, became the first county in WV to put impact fees on new construction to help pay for infrastructure, schools, etc. does loudoun use impact fees? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TODD Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Good find Todd.Thats what happens when the current housing on the market is saturated. I dont have the numbers for Loudoun, but the average time on market for a SFH in Fairfax county is 84 days, compared with 36 days 1 year ago. Lets just say our two year-old house in Lansdowne (currently the most super-saturated housing market in the country according to a Post article a couple of months back) has been on the market since February. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted November 17, 2006 Author Share Posted November 17, 2006 Lets just say our two year-old house in Lansdowne (currently the most super-saturated housing market in the country according to a Post article a couple of months back) has been on the market since February. Time to lower the asking price and raise the agent commission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TODD Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Time to lower the asking price and raise the agent commission. Done. At least three or four times over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Sick Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 Hopefully now, with the real estate market cooling, all sides can sit down and try to come up with some real solutions. (I know, NoVa doesn't feel the pinch as bad in a housing slump, but maybe it will slow down a bit.) A similar stink is going on down here in Richmond. Some huge development is coming in (around 10k homes, I think) and the worst part is that it was zoned and approved before cash proffers became standard. (I think they charge like 25k in Chesterfield County now.) I'm sorry, but It just seems hypocritical on all sides, where people move to the first section of McMansions, but then try to keep everyone else out who's trying to do the same thing. As for me, Ten minute commute, no highways. Northern Virginia? You guys can have it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbooma Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 As for me, Ten minute commute, no highways. Northern Virginia? You guys can have it! The problem with Richmond is many think the war is still going on there , and the one thing I love about DC is the diversity. I love Richmond visit our friends all the time, just can not handle the racial tensions down there after living up here. The job market up here is second to none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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