Got a North Stafford alumni here! LOL Well actually, that was our last place there. With housing in that area, we started out renting in Arlington. Then we bought a townhouse in Lorton. Then we bought a single family house in Lake Ridge. Then we bought a bigger home in the North Stafford area. My husband always joked that if we just kept going down 95 to buy bigger houses... that by the time he retired, we would be already living in Florida! LOL
My husband was at Fort Myer the entire time (25 years), so he knows the Pentagon pretty well (was there from time to time), and we share many of the same memories of that Baltimore - Washington area, I’m sure. :) You may have seen my husband around town, but I won’t say what he did here. :-) NO, he wasn’t a federal worker! (Thought I might want to clarify that.) :)
We ALMOST went the Maryland route when we first moved there. My husband is actually from Western Maryland and has family in the MD suburbs of DC still. However, I refused to become a Maryland resident because I would have to re-take the driving test to get my license transferred there whereas Virginia would only make me take the written test to transfer. So, our ENTIRE life there was based on the fact that I wanted the easiest way to get my driving licensed transferred!
It worked out well all in all though. Maryland is so liberal, and Virginia was at least tolerable. Plus we home schooled, and the home schooling rules and regs in Maryland were HORRIBLE whereas Virginia... not so bad. If I can say this without boasting, home schooling in Texas is absolutely awesome though. I won’t go into it here, but email me if you wanted to know about that for some reason. Too bad I was basically already done home schooling all of my kids when we moved here to Texas!
Talk about living amongst city dwellers.... I grew up on a farm in WV. Moving to the D.C. area was quite the feat for me. Except for Arlington though which may as well be DC, we took more kindly to the suburbs. Stafford is 40 miles out of DC, and that and Lake Ridge right before that is where we spent most of our time when we were there. We LOVED going to Fredericksburg, VA for our little city while we lived in Stafford. Not sure if you’ve ever been there, but it’s a fun little place.
Sorry I talked so much here, and it was all about me too. Guess I keep myself out of trouble talking campaign stuff anyway when I do this.
Nice to chat, and again, sorry for the bad start.
PS, Thanks for the insight as to SP. I hope she finds that inner strength that lifts her to her highest levels. Hope she finds.... herself again.
I love the Shenandoah Valley rural areas in Va. Very lovely people,salt of the earth and my cousin lived in Lynchburg Va most of her life. My sister's step son is Stationed at Norfolk, which reminds me of my Favorite TV show NCIS. Not too many Shows are pro military and catching the bad guys,it is an oasis away from the Hollywood Leftist influence.
I will freep mail you any further or some freepers might think we are writing a book. Hah!