The Onion's Take on Northern Virginia

The Onion main page today (the "National News Highlights" rollover) features a reference to Arlington:

"ARLINGTON, VA -- Nate Martin was so happy to drive home from Washington, D.C. without hitting a traffic jam that he briefly forgot how much he hated his house, job, and life in northern Virginia."

Hey, it's not that bad. As a northern Virginian, that would be my expected viewpoint, though my biases point in different directions, since:

1. I live in Reston, and thus look enviously upon Arlington.
   
   
2. I moved down here from New York City, and thus I consider everything outside New York "the suburbs," anyway.*

*Granted, I was only there a couple of years -- growing up in NJ doesn't count -- and that was a long time ago. I also don't actually feel this way -- I just trot out that line whenever I hear DC-dwellers looking down on the northern Virginia suburbs.

Tags: the onion, northern virginia