I'm sorry, but the Metro does not cover "most" of NoVA. It has a few lines that jut into it, to provide commuting into DC, and that's it. It is absolutely use

I'm sorry, but the Metro does not cover "most" of NoVA. It has a few lines that jut into it, to provide commuting into DC, and that's it. It is absolutely useless if you are working someplace in NoVA, and also live in NoVA. It will not help you get around in NoVA at all. Whether it's better than American cities is irrelevant. The original claim, in a discussion about tech workers and tech jobs, was that the DC area had a good public transit system unlike SD. That is objectively untrue, for tech workers, for the reasons I stated above. The DC metro area is no better for tech workers as far as public transit goes. If you get a tech job in NoVA (or MD), you will absolutely need a car. If you want to ride the Metro to work, you need to go back to school and get a degree in law or international relations so you can get one of those downtown DC jobs.