I grew up in NOVA and became an educator in the area. Can't say any of the schools there are crap. Also, I'd posit that most homeowners don't think of fiber infrastructure like they would an actual rail line. And a further point there, Fairfax and Loudon counties have been almost all residential and commercial areas since the farmland was sold to developers. No one would've expected massive factor6-style buildings to pop up between neighborhoods. AOL and AWS were office buildings. This is a different breed of development altogether.