[Zeneta]

Been in Fairfax County for over 30 years.

On balance, highly educated, always at the top of the wealth chart, very transient and the home of:

The Beltway Bandits.

Highly dependent of Federal Gov’t spending.

[muawiyah]

There are things going on here that are way beyond what you see the government up to ~ at one time we had at least 5 publicly known Class 4 laboratories. Two of them right in Springfield.

They were private institutions doing research of all kinds for all sorts of contracts ~ probably most of them with private sector organizations.

Education and medical science are major employers ~ plus computer service companies. The internet began here (Remember UUNet), and other communication services are all over the place.