Welcome to Va! I definitely would not live in Newport News. Hampton is pretty good and the other cities across the bridge (Chesapeake, Va Beach)aren't too bad either. traffic is not nearly as bad as it is in NoVa(3rd worst in the country) and the weather is great wit ha lot of things to do. Cost of living is not bad either.
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