The problem with starting fresh is that, people come and go throughout the year. And each of those people thought the same about 'starting fresh' so by the end of the year, we'd get a lotta bunch of duplicated threads for the same region. Its easier for everyone involved to just reuse old threads.
Hell, there are 37 other Virginia threads when you look it up in the 'View All Threads' section and the latest one was posted only last year with only 5 posts.
If everyone bothered to actually stick around, date of original posts wouldn't matter much in the first place since they all are as functional as any older or newer threads.
