Reviews & Comments
Winchester, VA
re: Winchester is a VERY CONSERVATIVE backwar
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8/24/2020Judging by the date of Julie’s post, it looks like she moved to Winchester around 2005, at the peak of the market, and has been stuck in a house due to the collapse of its value. (An assumption made due to the fact that 9 years later, she chooses to sneer at Winchester and its citizens, rather than move someplace where “cultural diversity” means living in an insular, left-wing bubble. Of course, if you look at this website’s own data, you see that Winchester’s diversity looks much like the rest of America.)
I can’t imagine why she moved to Winchester, other than its more affordable housing options. But she picked the town, apparently having no familiarity with its community or culture, and then blames and insults its residents because she doesn’t share their collective values, or at least her perception of those values.
My assessment of Winchester, as a non-native transplant who came here more than 30 years ago, is that it has always held to a live-and-let-live attitude, and expects that attitude to be reciprocated by others. You can be yourself...just don’t insist that everyone else should be more like you. I hope by now, Julie has moved someplace more to her liking.
Winchester, VA
re: Stay Away
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8/24/2020I can agree with you on this point: I wish you had stayed in Newark, NJ, too. It sounds like Winchester is a really bad fit for you.
I came from a big city metro area in the north, and was utterly charmed by Winchester. Of course, it never occurred to me to move to a community with the intention of recreating the mess I left behind. I fled high crime, high taxes, and miserable winters to be seduced by the smell of summer honeysuckle, natural beauty and wilderness, small-town folksiness, affordability, and charm of this small southern city.
The city I grew up in now looks like a war zone, and is regularly in the news for violent crime and murder. Meanwhile, Winchester (and surrounding area) is still a civilized, friendly place to call home, where traditions still matter, where the Church is still a living, breathing force for God’s goodness, and where my life expanded to include a husband, children, and ties to people, community, and institutions that lift up places like Winchester. I may have been born a big-city Yankee, but I was reborn into a small-city southerner just as surely as I was reborn into a life in Christ.