So Long, 2021, And Don't Let The DRB-Approved Screen Door Hit You On The Way Out

The end of the year is a time for reflection, a special time to share the spirit and joy of a new year with your neighbors and loved ones -- especially on social media: 

With that same spirit in mind, it's time for us lazy "web loggers" to algorithmically generate yet another listicle of what's hot and what's not in our favorite plastic fantastic planned community as we enter the second year of the ought-twenties. Without further ado!

OUT	IN
Ominous sounding names signaling developers' true intentions	Friendly sounding names obscuring developers' true intentions
Bikeshare stations littering residential neighborhoods with bikes and socialism	Discarded scooters littering lakes and wooded areas
Million-dollar treehouses	Much more affordable rowhouses
Working from home due to COVID (with cool Zoom backgrounds!)	Working from home due to COVID (with cool Zoom backgrounds!)
Mysterious metal objects	Trees suspended in glass trapezoids
Four-star hotels with woonerf	Gazillion-star hotels in rebranded, woonerf-free zone
Cutesy names for homes in new particleboard developments	Oddly apt names for streets in new particleboard developments
Dystopian video screens	Our new lizard overlords
Cicadas	Wooden horses
Dysfunctional HOAs	Ruthlessly efficient algae killers
Starbucks, Office Depot, purveyors of gourmet toast, and Waffles (RIP)	Cupcakeries, again and forever
Elite tech giants at RTC	Canned fish purveyors at RTC
Mocking Loudoun County	Mocking Arlington County
Reston: The Baby Book	Reston: The NFT (still available at a reasonable price!)