I am a fourth generation Loudoun resident, and I am heart broken over what has happened here since the carpetbagger invasion. Fire fighters, law enforcement, school teachers.....none can afford to live here where they work. There was a concerted effort in the ‘70s and ‘80s to change Loudoun County from a rural farming county into a suburban high tech one, like luring the I.T. build-up in the Rt.28 corridor. I believe there is only one working dairy farm left. And now that a Metro stop is being built near Dulles, that should finish things off. I’m beginning to understand how my ancestors the Creek felt.
We were transferred to Virginia in 1976. We were coming from Long Island which is certainly not an inexpensive area. When we got down there to house hunt we were stunned by the price of homes. We wound in a nice neighborhood ,in Falls Church, in one of the smallest homes. The majority of our neighbors were gov’t employees, a few doctors and one fellow who became Bill Marriott’s right hand man. I’ve never been so happy as the day we were told we were again being transferred. I absolutely hated living there.