Vienna No Longer #4; Drops Like a Stone Out of Top 100

Take down the yard signs now PLEASE. The emperor has no clothes.

If you compare this year's Money Magazine article to the one from last year, you'll see that only one of last year's top ten places to live was even rated this year. Vienna wasn't in the top 100 because it wasn't rated at all, not because Money Magazine saw big problems in Vienna.

In all fairness, you should include the fact that Moorestown NJ, last year's #1, and also last year's numbers 2 and 5 did not make the "Top 100" either....

Only Naperville, Ill, last year's # 3 made the "Top 100".

Naperville moved from # 3 to #2.

Imagine the celebretory fetes now happening in the Great Town of "Naperville"...At least we live in a Town without a silly name like "Naperville"....Or
"Whoville"!

I can only think of those poor people in "Scaggsville", MD - How they have fought and fought to get their name changed....Yet they remain - The "Scaggsvillians"!

I chose to think we have reasion to remain optomistic! D

Who the heck cares about what a city is called and why in the world does it make a difference to Vienna... the above comment is just plain idiotic.

Just like Chicken Little we all clucked like little chickens on our new found and totally unexpected #4 rating, when, in fact, it was more a result of Tysons Corner that pulled 22180 into fame. Now that we are no longer even in the top 100, you have to wonder what happened. Was it a fluke that we were #4?

Or did someone uncover a serious and real problem or even that information was suppressed from the 2005 ratings? If you look closely at the crime data, for instance, you may realize that it appears that the numbers don't add up.

Maybe a correction is due. How does a Town Like Vienna deal with a problem of acknowledging a notoriety that it probably never deserved? Or does the Town simply act like it always has and stick its head in the sand?

I for one like many things about Vienna, but there is a helluva lot that just plain stinks and before long you won't see Vienna as being a great place. It will become one of the least desirable places to live if fixes at the top are not made. For a town of more than 20 banks and numerous gas stations and nail salons, who can say without laughing that this is what makes a town a great town?

Wake up Vienna and fix your damned code and future because you are forcing Vienna to a death of mediocrity and strip malls. Just because Maud the Fraud says this is what is good for Vienna, doesn’t mean we have to listen to her nonsense.

Mr. O'Reilly, you are being very grouchy. My comment was meant to convey "humour", which apparently escapes you. While silly and perhaps off-topic it is hardly "fair and balanced" to refer to it as "plain idiotic". That sort of attitude will not go far in building a consensus for your cause.

I made sure Money magazine had plenty of articles about Vienna being a known "[gang] stronghold." Sure, they probably didn't do anything. But, if you were Money Magazine, could you, in good conscience, name a Top 5 place to live in the US, which the US Marshal Service calls a "[gang] stronghold." And no I don't 'hate' Vienna. I am just disgusted as to what is brushed under the rug around here.

In all fairness, your article starts out with a statement that I took as "your" seriousness regarding the whole Money Magazine article: whether or not certain cities made the list or not and what effect or consequence that fact had over Vienna's making the mark.

I do not think that you are idiotic; I just thought the discussion about a name was irrelevant. I just call the shots as I see them. No harm intended.

My main goal is to expose the corruption so inherent in TOV political machine. If we simply sit back at let them get away with it, Vienna is doomed to mediocrity. Vienna can be so much better. You know that and I applaud that you have done, what very few if any have done, you have voiced words against the mainstream Maud-o-lites while sitting on a committee. That is what I see as real courage.

I applaud your honesty and courage and would hope other so-called free thinkers would break their allegiance from Maud the Fraud and strive to help Vienna grow, not to stagnate with outdated strip malls and small minded New England Town wan-a-bees.

We need to unite and help Vienna before it goes by the way of another Seven Corners, Falls Church.

Not that I relish the idea that we have lost our #4 rating, but I would have appreciated even more if it were really 22180 and not Tysons Corner that made the grade. Any intelligent person, and honest most of all, would acknowledge this, but alas, people like Maud and Jane S. are all too interested in their own political agendas to be openly honest about such matters.

So I will continue to work to expose them for the people they really are and I thank the web master who runs this site for the freedom to do so.

Respectfully...

It's ok. I have thick skin. But if we are to "unite", then we need to help people to feel comfortable about posting on the website, so that they are not afraid of being made fun of or insulted themselves.

I'm sorry we lost our rating, too. I was the one who made all of those "4th Best" signs.

I don't think we lost it because anyone "discovered" some dark and looming secret about the seamy underbelly of Vienna. Beleive me, Money magazine isn't out there snooping around playing detective and discovering hidden adgendas.

Out of the top ten cities from 2005, only one, "Naperville", even made it at all on the top 100 list this year.

I think they are just "spreadin' the luv"...Kind of like Miss America. You don't see any of the top ten finalists from last year in this year's pageant. The media (and the public) are always looking for fresh faces.

So, we had a good little run there. Let's not bemoan that it's someone else's turn now.

Let's focus instead on what we can do to make Vienna the #1 town for the people who live here today!

Back to you, councilor.

Deborah

Today's Washington Post reports on increasing W&OD Trail traffic. Falls Church had the good sense to install a bridge over Route 7 years ago. What did the Town of Vienna do? They installed a middle of the block stop light on THE major road running through Vienna to the metropolis growing up around Tysons Corner... and a $6m Town Green front lawn for their favorite Vienna Presbyterian Church. The Town demonstrates zero foresight... it's screw you trail users, screw you Route 123 users, let's all sit on our historic lawn besides our historic old buildings and feel pleasant while you suffer GROWING CONGESTION. Growth is not going away Maude no matter how much you ignore it or plead from your Town Newsletter soapbox. Vienna needs to get out and vote for new leadership!