>>C'villes are a good thing and each state (*) should have one.
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>First, -- congratulations Dragan!!! --
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>Second, Virginia happens to have *TWO* C'villes -- Charlottesville and Centreville. Both great places, BTW.

Judging by location, Centreville would be another piece of endless malls surrounding DC, but then it may be a nice place like Falls Church - haven't been lost there yet. Though, last night I took one wrong turn approaching Manassas - took the first 234 instead of the second 234 (I wonder why do they have different numbers for the roads, they could all be called road #1) and ended driving through Manassas ten miles more (and about a hundred lights more) than I should have. The only way I knew I was in Manassas was the big Nissan logo somewhere - otherwise, it looked just like any other ten-mile stretch of shops, gas stations, garages, parking lots, shops, gas stations, garages, parking lots, shops, gas stations, garages, parking lots, ...

Charlottesville seems to me like a crossbreed between a student place (because of the UVA) and a retiree resort (because of the UVA hospital), with a few people added to make the picture more colorful. The overall fear of architecture makes it somewhat boring - even new houses have to look as if they were built a century or two ago, with the exception of the cubes (which also have to look like cubes) around the mall, which is out of town. But then the scenery you get really is nice - forest everywhere. I was even seeing deer and rabbits around the house, and countless squirrels.