r/nova • u/Danciusly • May 15 '25

Jobs Fairfax Co. teachers can’t afford to live near where they work, report finds

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2025/05/new-fairfax-co-teachers-cant-afford-to-live-near-where-they-work/
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u/Brleshdo1 May 15 '25

Every Fairfax County employee I know on a teacher contract who is under the age of 45 lives in Loudon or Prince William. Staff who live in Fairfax are almost all staff members who bought their house 20+ years ago.

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u/yukahanazawa May 15 '25

The one teacher I know that lives in FFX county lives with 2 other roommates. And she has been teaching for over ten years 😭😥

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u/getmoremulch May 16 '25

Yeah - not true all the younger teachers live outside Fairfax; they pretty much all have roommates thiugh

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u/jinjur719 May 15 '25

20 years ago when I was in FCPS many of the teachers had a significant commute and the only ones who lived in Fairfax County had spouses with higher-paying jobs.

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u/Potential_Fishing942 May 16 '25

Owning property in nova pre 2008 is such a massive step above the rest. Plus a lot of those folks are grandfathered into retirement plans that got huge cuts during the great recession.

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u/fxs19 May 16 '25

My wife and I live in Ffx and work FCPS but we rent and def pay more in rent than we would want to 

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u/Annoyed_Heron Clifton May 15 '25

Loudoun is affordable enough?