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In fact, the area is as much of a Third World country now as Miami; the roads are hideously designed, the intersections are a nightmare, the drivers are awful and scary and aggressive, it's like driving in Mexico City.

I'm surprised that you've been to Mexico City, much less driven there. I'm sure the "hideously designed" roads are some kind of nefarious plot by foreigners to make driving a nightmare for you. Boston has the worst driving/highest accident rates in the U.S. and that has nothing to do with foreigners.

I learned to drive in el Distrito Federal but it is hair-raising and you always breathe a sigh of relief when you arrive in one piece. I lived there for several years. I have family there and return often. I've also driven in Rome, which is no stroll, and in Morocco, where driving is best described as counterintuitive. Driving in the DC metro area is no picnic, but driving in the Seven Corners area is worse. The foreigners DO MAKE IT WORSE. They all apprently go by different rules of the road, and God knows how they got drivers' licenses. For one thing, apparently this is the only country that has picked up on the idea of actually USING turn signals, although I realize it has not been not universally adopted even here. Sorry, I wasn't exactly sure what you were sneering at in my last post, hope this clarifies matters.

Gee whiz, I guess they're right about our roads in Northern Virginia having been designed by a bunch of crazy foreigners.

The original colonial road to which I have a permanent easement that VDOT must honor was laid out by George Washington!

I think those other roads were laid out by the US Army, the US Marine Corps, and Benjamin Franklin, particularly the US 1 part.