I’ve written here many times that one of the main reasons Celeste and I moved the family to North Carolina was to escape the traffic hell that is Northern Virginia. It really is a draining lifestyle.  Well, I just stumbled across some data that offers a little more proof that the situation in NoVa is pretty extreme.  From the City-Data website comes this list of 101 top cities that people commute from (largest daily daytime population change due to commuting) (population 50,000+) and I’ll paste in a couple of the results for you:

• #1, Burke, VA (Housing Pop. 57,737) -42.3%
• #3, Dale City, VA (Housing Pop. 55,971) -37.5%

Guess which two places we lived in or next to from 1993-2004?  So It wasn’t my imagination that I was fighting a virtual tidal wave of people every time I tried to make my way towards, DC and it’s suburban business centers.

FYI, suburban Maryland also has a few towns on the list, which does not bode well for the DC area in terms of livability.