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Then you need to move to NOVA — lower taxes, friendlier gun laws, and a shorter commute. What’s not to like?

Friendlier gun laws: check.

Cost to get a decent piece of property...unless I choose to commute from Winchester or Fredericksburg, not so much.

Shorter commute: some of the worst traffic around is in NOVA. And, unlike the District and MD, there are so many cul-de-sacs, it's almost impossible to take the side roads to avoid the traffic...at least so far as I've seen in the past 14 years since AF retirement.

It takes me an hour to get from my house in the very, very tip-top north of PG County to Tyson's Corner, leaving at 7 AM. If I lived in, say, Woodbridge, it would take me a whole lot longer than any hour...unless I wanted to pay $20 in tolls for the HOT lanes.

Taxes: Yes, they would be lower if I lived in Prince William County or farther out (I actually did a comparison several years ago...Arlington County and Fairfax County local taxes make up the difference between MD and VA state taxes pretty quickly).

Oh, and one other thing. Virginia now has Terry McAwful as governor...and NOVA is getting bluer by the minute...not to make a ridiculous claim that MD is better, but it's a whole lot more likely that another McAwful is elected than, say, a Cuccinelli.