I used to live down Brook in Bellevue and can confirm that this Wawa makes the Boulevard one look like a gallery opening at The Met. I've been there when you had to get an employee to unlock the beer cave for you, been accosted in the parking lot for having no cash to give away, and have def waited over 20m for a sandwich before.

This city used to be more dense than it is now. VCU isn't the problem. Forcing cars into cities and putting them on literally every road with little to no protected routes for pedestrians and bikes is a problem. There isn't too many people here, there's too many cars.

My wife brought me coffee in bed. Getting up to drop the kids off at the pool.

I think the point keeps being missed. I’ll do an analogy here. Brisket is akin to gas. The price varies from a location to a location due to logistics/transportation costs. Anyone can get a select or a choice brisket but high quality such as a prime from a reputable source (typically in these four states) will have to pay extra costs. Any Texas style BBQ joint worth their weight won’t be skimping on that particular area.

Vienna is cool as fuck though

That alarm starts going off at 4 am at this house. It gets louder the closer it gets to the clock alarm at 5am.

Out of bed for work but groggier and angrier than usual because the apartment building’s fire alarm went off twice yesterday - one at 2pm and one at 3am, and we had to pack up the animals to evacuate both times. Management never tells us what happened and it’s absurd

I would pit the sound of my dog about to vomit against my fire alarm for my reaction time any day.

Arlington 1969 to Brussels 1974 to RVA 1977.

is the New Year's resolution crowd still going strong?

That’s where we differ. I think we’ve been there and for a while, shit like infrastructure is just catching up to the demographics

https://media.amtrak.com/2021/09/virginia-launches-expanded-train-service-from-downtown-richmond-to-washington-d-c-on-to-new-york-and-boston/

Edit to add: the one element I forgot to mention and people usually do is air travel within the northeast corridor.

I can take the 6am flight from RIC and be in Boston or NYC for a breakfast meeting

The megalopolis is real

This is either a hilarious troll or the dumbest question I’ve ever seen. The nova equivalent would be, let’s go to DC and stay in Reston or Vienna the whole time.

The city won’t bite, but it may nibble a little bit. If you’re into that sort of thing

Edit: I see that OP is actually not from the US, so probably not a troll. That’s my bad. Stay in the city, short pump is a glorified series of strip malls from former farms.

I believe technically we are not yet part of it. But with the completion of the HOV line to Fredericksburg and all the new developmemt around Fburg, I agree we are pretty much there already.

When you dance with a bear, you don’t stop until the bear stops. Espresso’s the bear

Monday? More like Moan-day amirite?

Mission BBQ is the McDonald's of BBQ restaurants.

Stay wherever you like, everything's a short drive from everything around here. Enjoy your stay!

Hey, we just did that, too! Congratulations!

The dogs are gonna pee somewhere, and I'd rather that be out of doors. Gets you up like nothing else

If it does not have to be downtown, on Monday's the two local Sedona Taphouse restaurants have a Dine out for charity menu where the dishes are 1/2 off. its an 8oz Flatiron steak, 8oz chicken breast, or their Salmon entre for between $10-$13 https://sedonataphouse.com/locations/midlothian-va/

The cusp? That ship sailed like 10 years ago.

Been going to the short pump location for several years for Peter Chang’s, and a trip to Scott’s Addition one is more expensive with lower quality food. Maybe a few years back it was alright, but my friends and I have had noticeably worse or bad food experiences each time we’ve ended up there. Our table ordered 3 orders of the shredded tofu skins, and all three were notably salty with literal crystals of salt for added texture, as an example.

The gym. Slacked off last week, so back at it. Well, that and the always hungry dog.

It is not on the same level as ZZQ

BUTTERY MALES!