I came down to DC for a meeting and stayed north of Dulles in Ashburn, VA. And as the title says; what an awful place. Maybe I missed the historic centre of the town, but all I saw was crappily built buildings less than 10 years old divided by 4 and 6 lane highways.
Just the epitome of unfriendly, unsustainable, car-centred development that has been such a blight on the continent in the past years. I can’t imagine living somewhere like this.
Here’s the google map view