zyarva
5
Reston

The fireworks from different towns are staggered because they share firework personnel. Herndon and City of Fairfax have 7/4 firework, while other towns already had their firework last weekend.

Britain really screwed Indian subcontinent. These are same people, and Bangladesh can't function as an independent state.

zyarva
118
Reston
17hLink

I remember the rule was 15% at a minimum and 20% for good service. 30% is never in the card.

zyarva
15
Reston
21hLink

Where is my sprinkle of executive immunity? Hottest flavor of the season.

You said my line. I have boxes of old portable electronics that are replaced by a smartphone by now. They costs thousands at the time.

zyarva
2
Reston

Even in affluent schools there would be problem kids. This is the price of public education. You try your luck, if the class got one or two of them, they can't kick them out of school and other class won't take them either. My area is mostly single family home and household income is above average, and there would still be kids just insubordinate and esp. when the sub teacher are in, the class could be chaotic.

My 8 year old son told me all these, and I told him once you get into fulltime AAP class it would be better.

But you could get lucky and get a peaceful class.

Supreme Court said the President can call a pedophile and it is presumed immune, and it can't be used as evidence.

zyarva
2
Reston

Pentagon North Parking and follow the crowd.

zyarva
9
Reston

Two natural deliveries in Fair Oaks, don't really worry about taking things to the hospital because they had everything, also it's a c-section so your wait is minimal compared to naturals.

You probably don't think about checking out yet, but here are things to do

  1. have your husband push a stroller with a car seat clicked on into your room to pick up the baby. I've seen plenty of dad just lift the car seat with baby in it and they complain about their arm giving out half way down the hallway.
  2. When you leave, take everything in your room, towels, diapers, ointment, everything that is not bolted down. Your insurance paid for them and nobody would be needing them.

Good luck.

zyarva
4
Reston

I would suggest public school because unless you have SAHM dropping off/pickup kids to school every day is draining, and your kids won't mix well with rich kids living in affluent areas while you live in a cheaper place. It's jarring.

School here is a pyramid with high school on top, I'd suggest Oakton Pyramid, Woodson Pyramid, and maybe Chantilly Pyramid. Woodson is closer-in with GMU in it so many campus activities for your kids when they are bigger. Oakton has lots of houses in the woods, very few subdivision homes. Chantilly has more immigrants but maybe have newer homes.

Google FCPS boundary map to find out the HS boundaries. Middle and elementary matters less, their ranking is biased because some schools are AAP centers so their test scores are higher but that doesn't reflect general education pool.

Alexandria area is not great for schools.

Life change. when I was single getting active in exercising and outdoor hobbies helped. Other things are too personal to share, but focus on external goal such as taking care of children really helped dealing with temporary setbacks.

Just work hard and get rich...

zyarva
22
Reston

Better dog parks have a puppy areas for small dogs to play.

GS level is tied to production. It's better to start lower and ramp up your production. There are accellerated promotion from GS7-9-11 and she'll get to GS11 about 1 year after she join the tech center, if she's really hit the ground running.

I've seen retired doctors, lawyers joining the office starting at GS7, it's not a demotion.

That's called progressive tax system. US is systematically dismantling it.

  1. Then you should have not explored the earth and take up colonies.

  2. you should have bring your birth rate up above 2.1 birth per woman in order to sustain your population and have enough low level WHITE AND CHRISTIAN labors to clean your street and collect trash.

zyarva
23
Reston

Meadowlark Garden has a big pond with koi in it, and they have an annual koi fair, call them to see if they rescue or know someone.

Also check with Potomac Koi Club https://www.znapotomac.org/

zyarva
9
Reston

NOVA is all pretty safe. But common sense safety such as no walking alone late night. Even best neighborhood can't avoid silly crimes committed by teens.

For 120K you can basically pick your apartment from Arlington to Alexandria. By relatively safe, it's really a psychological question, can I ask where is your hometown that you consider "safe"?

zyarva
7
Reston

All elementary schools have a playground for upper elementary age, and their monkey bar would be high enough for adults, unless your boyfriend is a giant, who absolutely should go to a gym.

zyarva
0
Reston

Seems to be even Winchester to Herndon is preferable than driving on I-66. And you don't have to live in Winchester, just anywhere on the Rt. 7 beyond Loudoun.

Bill Gates's mother was on the national board of United Way with the president of IBM. And she just happened to mention her son's little company to him.

"As a nation, we begin by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.”

Abraham Lincoln 1855.