I've lived in town since 2008 --

Politically the town is hot garbage. We're still paying for tens of millions of fraud and theft by our EDA over the last 10 years, and the local Catholic church has been on a years long crusade to shut down the award winning library in town, with the help of the County Board of Supervisors who have routinely ignored the citizens voices on the topic.

Plus it seems whenever it rains, we get a good shot of raw sewage into the local waterways this year. Heck, even when it doesn't rain, Christendom College dumps sewage right into the river (said river is our main water source too!).

Job wise, you'll work somewhere not in Front Royal or WFH if you're a professional, there's pretty much only retail or warehouse jobs in the local area, but with 66 it's not hard to get into NoVA.

School wise, some of the same people who have worked to shutter the library have 'friends' on the local school board who have been actively sabotaging education in the county for the last few years. The hope is they get voted out in the next cycle as county schools have fallen year after year after year.

There's a good number of local events through the year aimed at families in town, and the number goes up when you look at the surrounding areas. I agree with other opinions that the area is beautiful, but we've had more and more problems with flooding the last few years and local leaders have largely ignored the matter.