Haha, one of my friends just moved out to manassas so he could buy a townhouse, and I gave him a hard time about it. The area has definitely changed.. Its pretty cool though if you ask me. What needs to be done is extending the metro lines out to fairfax, reston, and eastern loudoun county.
Why stop there? There should be express metro to Harrisonburg... Yeah, they need more construction in NoVA.