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From the tone of your comment and others I've seen, it's obvious that you're a Maryland booster basically, and that's fine, but some of the points you bring up don't make much sense. Why do Hilton and Northrop Grumman need to be in the same neighborhood as Marriott and Lockheed Martin? Is half an hour, in a major commercial area with a large presence of large companies, too far away? And on top of the state-level policies, there are other advantages that Northern Virginia had luring those companies. Public services are not vastly better, if not all, in Suburban Maryland, including PG, not just MoCo, and DC than Northern Virginia.

Maryland and Virginia both leach off of DC to an extent. Many of the companies that are in Maryland and Virginia are there due to proximity to DC. I don't think you should lump DC and Maryland together on this issue as if they have the same interests. Do you mind as much that DC lured CoStar's HQ away?

For decades, Suburban Maryland was more wealthy and developed than Northern Virginia and stuck its nose up and now it just sounds like bitterness because Northern Virginia has come into its own. Would you even care if the situation were flipped?

by Vik on Apr 25, 2012 10:30 am • link • report