I lived in Leesburg, VA from 1985–2002. In that time we had booms and busts (AOL, Worldcom) and unrelenting development. It was a nice place to live, until it wasn’t. When I moved there, there was no such thing as traffic jams, and there was only one 4 lane highway. When I left, there were more highways and traffic jams were the norm. Houses were affordable for most, but eventually teachers had to commute an hour or more to work in county schools, because they could not afford to live in the county where they taught. Loudoun county may be the richest county now, but when I was there it was the the fastest growing county in the country. There is a price to pay for that affluence.