Interesting facts about where I live (and have lived)...

Courtesy of Wikipedia...

*Due to the political and economic differences between Northern Virginia and the rest of the commonwealth, some secessionist sentiments have emerged with those persons wishing that the area could become the separate state of "North Virginia."

*Since the 2000 census, both Loudoun and Fairfax counties are the top two large Highest-income counties in the United States by median household income.

*Arlington is center of the largest Bolivian community in North America (mostly immigrants from Cochabamba).

*Originally part of the District of Columbia, the land now comprising the county was retroceded to Virginia in a July 9, 1846 act of Congress that took effect in 1847.

*Arlington was ranked as the most educated city (percentage of residents with graduate degrees) in 2006 by CNN Money.

*Arlington is the smallest self-governing county in the United States.

*Northern Virginia is also home to one of the largest African immigrant populations in America, with significant numbers of Nigerians, Ethiopians, Eritreans, Somalians, and Ghanaians.

*Northern Virginia suffers from severe road congestion. The congestion consistently ranks with Los Angeles and San Francisco, California as one of the worst three areas in the nation. Workers from these outlying counties face daily commutes that exceed well over an hour each way.

*Allen's sole wins in Northern Virginia were the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park, winning the latter two only by the razor-thin margins of 298 votes and 47 votes, respectively.

*Manassas gained notoriety in 1993 as the hometown of John and Lorena Bobbitt, even though they resided outside the city and closer to the city of Manassas Park.[1] Their separate trials (John Wayne Bobbitt's for rape, Lorena Bobbitt's for malicious wounding) occurred at the Prince William County courthouse, which is in the city of Manassas.