DMV Weather  Apr 26, 2023

Question for my #Virginia peeps. Curious what your thoughts are about what part of VA should be considered "western Virginia" versus "central Virginia" or "eastern Virginia". Where are the boundaries of those?

I guess I consider central VA to be from about Lynchburg to roughly New Kent to Wakefield, and eastern VA obviously from there to the coast, and western VA being the valley out to the westernmost point where it runs up against Tennessee and Kentucky.

Show threadMatt5sean3Apr 27, 2023
@rvaweather I am not sure western and eastern are granular enough, but I mostly agree with your definition, even though that has everyplace from Winchester to Big Stone Gap as Western. Eastern certainly includes the Northern Neck but also Norfolk et al. which are even more radically disimilar. I consider central to be a shorthand for Richmond Metro, but even that is nebulous. Before Fredericksburg was absorbed into NOVA I don't think it would have been Central VA, but what else would it be?
Show threadxRVAx Apr 27, 2023
@Matt5sean3 @rvaweather #cville is central Virginia too, yes?
Show threadMatt5sean3
@xRVAx @rvaweather It seems to be considered such, but I haven't lived there and have only visited a handful of times. From afar it seems like Charlottesville is solidly a college town that's doing its own thing culturally and physically is closer to I-81 than Richmond by a half. I'm not sure that it's tied to the rest of central Virginia meaningfully.
Apr 27, 2023 at 5:44amWeb
Show threadxRVAx Apr 27, 2023
@Matt5sean3 @rvaweather all I know is when Virginia Living magazine does their annual "best of..." issue, the cville and RVA vote results are lumped together under the rubric of "Central Virginia"... I agree they are technically different.
Show threadMatt5sean3Apr 27, 2023
@xRVAx @rvaweather That's on Virginia Living for making that decision then and really for choosing that sort of grouping in the first place. Lynchburg gets shoved under that same heading too and Lynchburg is pretty far afield no matter how I look at it.