[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

One of my maternal uncles worked at Ft. Eustis and lived in Newport News and Hampton, VA from the 1940s until the 1990s. An aunt lived in Roanoke. I lived in Alexandria in the late 1960s and loved it but VA has gone down the tubes. The urban Northern Neck runs the whole state (not unlike TV running otherwise rural Sumter County). The remainder of the state is not happy about it, either.

Actually we came here from Roanoke living there for 30 years.

Once upon a time West Va split off from Va and who knows perhaps northern Va will do the same,