Is silver spring a decent place to live?

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

You must be thinking of the other side of the red line, with Glenmont and Wheaton. The eastern side of Rockville like Aspen Hill, touching the silver spring border is the more working class segment. Twinbrook is kinda sleepy and Rockville town center is very safe. Shady grove (and Derwood by extension) is very sleepy, not much happening. It gets “sketch” around Montgomery Village, which is much north of shady grove station.

In fact, most of the “action” has actually happened by pike and rose, where’s there’s lot of foot traffic

No one wants to live in Rockville. Definitely stay away. Definitely live in Bethesda.

I didn’t ask if people “want” to live in Rockville. I asked about price appreciation. If people can’t afford Bethesda, where are they naturally going to look? My first thought was a couple stops up the red line

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

You must be thinking of the other side of the red line, with Glenmont and Wheaton. The eastern side of Rockville like Aspen Hill, touching the silver spring border is the more working class segment. Twinbrook is kinda sleepy and Rockville town center is very safe. Shady grove (and Derwood by extension) is very sleepy, not much happening. It gets “sketch” around Montgomery Village, which is much north of shady grove station.

In fact, most of the “action” has actually happened by pike and rose, where’s there’s lot of foot traffic

No one wants to live in Rockville. Definitely stay away. Definitely live in Bethesda.

I didn’t ask if people “want” to live in Rockville. I asked about price appreciation. If people can’t afford Bethesda, where are they naturally going to look? My first thought was a couple stops up the red line

It’s a bad area, tons of crime. If you buy there you’ll lose money. Don’t look there.

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

You must be thinking of the other side of the red line, with Glenmont and Wheaton. The eastern side of Rockville like Aspen Hill, touching the silver spring border is the more working class segment. Twinbrook is kinda sleepy and Rockville town center is very safe. Shady grove (and Derwood by extension) is very sleepy, not much happening. It gets “sketch” around Montgomery Village, which is much north of shady grove station.

In fact, most of the “action” has actually happened by pike and rose, where’s there’s lot of foot traffic

No one wants to live in Rockville. Definitely stay away. Definitely live in Bethesda.

This is such a stupid statement it’s actually funny.

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

You must be thinking of the other side of the red line, with Glenmont and Wheaton. The eastern side of Rockville like Aspen Hill, touching the silver spring border is the more working class segment. Twinbrook is kinda sleepy and Rockville town center is very safe. Shady grove (and Derwood by extension) is very sleepy, not much happening. It gets “sketch” around Montgomery Village, which is much north of shady grove station.

In fact, most of the “action” has actually happened by pike and rose, where’s there’s lot of foot traffic

No one wants to live in Rockville. Definitely stay away. Definitely live in Bethesda.

I didn’t ask if people “want” to live in Rockville. I asked about price appreciation. If people can’t afford Bethesda, where are they naturally going to look? My first thought was a couple stops up the red line

Rockville is big. You have to pick wisely but we are very happy there. It’s a drag if you have to commute to DC though.

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

You must be thinking of the other side of the red line, with Glenmont and Wheaton. The eastern side of Rockville like Aspen Hill, touching the silver spring border is the more working class segment. Twinbrook is kinda sleepy and Rockville town center is very safe. Shady grove (and Derwood by extension) is very sleepy, not much happening. It gets “sketch” around Montgomery Village, which is much north of shady grove station.

In fact, most of the “action” has actually happened by pike and rose, where’s there’s lot of foot traffic

No one wants to live in Rockville. Definitely stay away. Definitely live in Bethesda.

This is such a stupid statement it’s actually funny.

I can’t tell if this anti-Rockville poster is trying to gate keep the neighborhood, or if they legitimately hate Rockville.

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

You must be thinking of the other side of the red line, with Glenmont and Wheaton. The eastern side of Rockville like Aspen Hill, touching the silver spring border is the more working class segment. Twinbrook is kinda sleepy and Rockville town center is very safe. Shady grove (and Derwood by extension) is very sleepy, not much happening. It gets “sketch” around Montgomery Village, which is much north of shady grove station.

In fact, most of the “action” has actually happened by pike and rose, where’s there’s lot of foot traffic

No one wants to live in Rockville. Definitely stay away. Definitely live in Bethesda.

I didn’t ask if people “want” to live in Rockville. I asked about price appreciation. If people can’t afford Bethesda, where are they naturally going to look? My first thought was a couple stops up the red line

It’s a bad area, tons of crime. If you buy there you’ll lose money. Don’t look there.

At least it's not the crime-ridden area known as Clarendon in Arlington:

“A bunch of fights with arrests. This was 1:45 a.m. EMS was called & at least one taken away by police from a scuffle on the sidewalk in the area of Clarendon Ballroom & Spider Kelly’s… At 3:00 police found a ‘man down’ at Clarendon & Garfield. And at 3:15 police went into the residential neighborhood to track down people involved in a fight at Big Tony’s Pizza. Just your typical night in Clarendon.”

https://x.com/STATter911/status/1860753354051490032

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

It’s just the truth. Last time I went to Rockville there were also all these gay and trans people. If you move there your kids will be converted.
Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

You must be thinking of the other side of the red line, with Glenmont and Wheaton. The eastern side of Rockville like Aspen Hill, touching the silver spring border is the more working class segment. Twinbrook is kinda sleepy and Rockville town center is very safe. Shady grove (and Derwood by extension) is very sleepy, not much happening. It gets “sketch” around Montgomery Village, which is much north of shady grove station.

In fact, most of the “action” has actually happened by pike and rose, where’s there’s lot of foot traffic

No one wants to live in Rockville. Definitely stay away. Definitely live in Bethesda.

This is such a stupid statement it’s actually funny.

I can’t tell if this anti-Rockville poster is trying to gate keep the neighborhood, or if they legitimately hate Rockville.

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

You must be thinking of the other side of the red line, with Glenmont and Wheaton. The eastern side of Rockville like Aspen Hill, touching the silver spring border is the more working class segment. Twinbrook is kinda sleepy and Rockville town center is very safe. Shady grove (and Derwood by extension) is very sleepy, not much happening. It gets “sketch” around Montgomery Village, which is much north of shady grove station.

In fact, most of the “action” has actually happened by pike and rose, where’s there’s lot of foot traffic

No one wants to live in Rockville. Definitely stay away. Definitely live in Bethesda.

I didn’t ask if people “want” to live in Rockville. I asked about price appreciation. If people can’t afford Bethesda, where are they naturally going to look? My first thought was a couple stops up the red line

It’s a bad area, tons of crime. If you buy there you’ll lose money. Don’t look there.

At least it's not the crime-ridden area known as Clarendon in Arlington:

“A bunch of fights with arrests. This was 1:45 a.m. EMS was called & at least one taken away by police from a scuffle on the sidewalk in the area of Clarendon Ballroom & Spider Kelly’s… At 3:00 police found a ‘man down’ at Clarendon & Garfield. And at 3:15 police went into the residential neighborhood to track down people involved in a fight at Big Tony’s Pizza. Just your typical night in Clarendon.”

https://x.com/STATter911/status/1860753354051490032

It is delusional hubris to compare Rockville to Arlington. Arlington used to be part of DC, Rockville is a 30 minute train ride from Metro Center. If you’re going to compare Rockville to something compare it to Fair Oaks, Vienna, Fairfax City or another place that’s a sleepy burb far away from the action. You don’t want to compare it to these places though because it’s behind by any metric: schools, crime, home appreciation, economic growth, new business openings, etc.

If we’re being honest, besides Bethesda there is no place in MoCo that has residential and retail as nice as Tysons, Clarendon, Crystal City, Old Town, Del Ray, Vienna, Falls Church City, Fairfax City, Mosaic. I could go on. There’s a reason it’s so expensive to live in VA now and you can’t a SFH fixer upper in any of the areas I listed for less than $800,000.

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

You must be thinking of the other side of the red line, with Glenmont and Wheaton. The eastern side of Rockville like Aspen Hill, touching the silver spring border is the more working class segment. Twinbrook is kinda sleepy and Rockville town center is very safe. Shady grove (and Derwood by extension) is very sleepy, not much happening. It gets “sketch” around Montgomery Village, which is much north of shady grove station.

In fact, most of the “action” has actually happened by pike and rose, where’s there’s lot of foot traffic

No one wants to live in Rockville. Definitely stay away. Definitely live in Bethesda.

I didn’t ask if people “want” to live in Rockville. I asked about price appreciation. If people can’t afford Bethesda, where are they naturally going to look? My first thought was a couple stops up the red line

It’s a bad area, tons of crime. If you buy there you’ll lose money. Don’t look there.

At least it's not the crime-ridden area known as Clarendon in Arlington:

“A bunch of fights with arrests. This was 1:45 a.m. EMS was called & at least one taken away by police from a scuffle on the sidewalk in the area of Clarendon Ballroom & Spider Kelly’s… At 3:00 police found a ‘man down’ at Clarendon & Garfield. And at 3:15 police went into the residential neighborhood to track down people involved in a fight at Big Tony’s Pizza. Just your typical night in Clarendon.”

https://x.com/STATter911/status/1860753354051490032

It is delusional hubris to compare Rockville to Arlington. Arlington used to be part of DC, Rockville is a 30 minute train ride from Metro Center. If you’re going to compare Rockville to something compare it to Fair Oaks, Vienna, Fairfax City or another place that’s a sleepy burb far away from the action. You don’t want to compare it to these places though because it’s behind by any metric: schools, crime, home appreciation, economic growth, new business openings, etc.

If we’re being honest, besides Bethesda there is no place in MoCo that has residential and retail as nice as Tysons, Clarendon, Crystal City, Old Town, Del Ray, Vienna, Falls Church City, Fairfax City, Mosaic. I could go on. There’s a reason it’s so expensive to live in VA now and you can’t a SFH fixer upper in any of the areas I listed for less than $800,000.

+1, even though it’s not what the delusional MoCo boosters want to hear. MoCo was definitely once king of the burbs — now it’s NoVa and that’s just the way it is.

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

You must be thinking of the other side of the red line, with Glenmont and Wheaton. The eastern side of Rockville like Aspen Hill, touching the silver spring border is the more working class segment. Twinbrook is kinda sleepy and Rockville town center is very safe. Shady grove (and Derwood by extension) is very sleepy, not much happening. It gets “sketch” around Montgomery Village, which is much north of shady grove station.

In fact, most of the “action” has actually happened by pike and rose, where’s there’s lot of foot traffic

No one wants to live in Rockville. Definitely stay away. Definitely live in Bethesda.

I didn’t ask if people “want” to live in Rockville. I asked about price appreciation. If people can’t afford Bethesda, where are they naturally going to look? My first thought was a couple stops up the red line

It’s a bad area, tons of crime. If you buy there you’ll lose money. Don’t look there.

At least it's not the crime-ridden area known as Clarendon in Arlington:

“A bunch of fights with arrests. This was 1:45 a.m. EMS was called & at least one taken away by police from a scuffle on the sidewalk in the area of Clarendon Ballroom & Spider Kelly’s… At 3:00 police found a ‘man down’ at Clarendon & Garfield. And at 3:15 police went into the residential neighborhood to track down people involved in a fight at Big Tony’s Pizza. Just your typical night in Clarendon.”

https://x.com/STATter911/status/1860753354051490032

It is delusional hubris to compare Rockville to Arlington. Arlington used to be part of DC, Rockville is a 30 minute train ride from Metro Center. If you’re going to compare Rockville to something compare it to Fair Oaks, Vienna, Fairfax City or another place that’s a sleepy burb far away from the action. You don’t want to compare it to these places though because it’s behind by any metric: schools, crime, home appreciation, economic growth, new business openings, etc.

If we’re being honest, besides Bethesda there is no place in MoCo that has residential and retail as nice as Tysons, Clarendon, Crystal City, Old Town, Del Ray, Vienna, Falls Church City, Fairfax City, Mosaic. I could go on. There’s a reason it’s so expensive to live in VA now and you can’t a SFH fixer upper in any of the areas I listed for less than $800,000.

+1, even though it’s not what the delusional MoCo boosters want to hear. MoCo was definitely once king of the burbs — now it’s NoVa and that’s just the way it is.

One of the problems with Nova people is that they tend to be very provincial and can't understand that people have different preferences than them. They also have views about areas outside Nova that are often based on hearsay or gossip rather than actually knowing and learning about other areas.

MoCo has always been a place for people who appreciate nice neighborhoods, politics that values kindness, and excellent schools (both public and private). The nice residential/retail areas abound, including downtown Bethesda, Pike & Rose, Rockville Town Center, downtown Takoma Park, and yes even DTSS that people love to hate without ever having been there.

As for not being able to find a SFH under $800K, it's certainly not true that in all of Nova houses are above that price, but yes, in the right neighborhoods, of course that's the case. Likewise, it's true in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac, and significant parts of Kensington, Rockville, and Silver Spring. And I am confident that if people actually spent some time in both places they'd find MoCo to be, on the whole, more pleasant than Nova. I find Tysons and Falls Church City to be not very walkable or pleasant, and I guess Clarendon is fine if you like the drunken college-kid nightlife, but those are just my views; I can at least acknowledge that others may have other preferences.

If you like Nova, that's great, but it is odd that Nova people constantly bombard this board with negativity about Moco, even though all of their negativity is based on stuff that is equally or even more true for Nova.

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

You must be thinking of the other side of the red line, with Glenmont and Wheaton. The eastern side of Rockville like Aspen Hill, touching the silver spring border is the more working class segment. Twinbrook is kinda sleepy and Rockville town center is very safe. Shady grove (and Derwood by extension) is very sleepy, not much happening. It gets “sketch” around Montgomery Village, which is much north of shady grove station.

In fact, most of the “action” has actually happened by pike and rose, where’s there’s lot of foot traffic

No one wants to live in Rockville. Definitely stay away. Definitely live in Bethesda.

I didn’t ask if people “want” to live in Rockville. I asked about price appreciation. If people can’t afford Bethesda, where are they naturally going to look? My first thought was a couple stops up the red line

It’s a bad area, tons of crime. If you buy there you’ll lose money. Don’t look there.

At least it's not the crime-ridden area known as Clarendon in Arlington:

“A bunch of fights with arrests. This was 1:45 a.m. EMS was called & at least one taken away by police from a scuffle on the sidewalk in the area of Clarendon Ballroom & Spider Kelly’s… At 3:00 police found a ‘man down’ at Clarendon & Garfield. And at 3:15 police went into the residential neighborhood to track down people involved in a fight at Big Tony’s Pizza. Just your typical night in Clarendon.”

https://x.com/STATter911/status/1860753354051490032

It is delusional hubris to compare Rockville to Arlington. Arlington used to be part of DC, Rockville is a 30 minute train ride from Metro Center. If you’re going to compare Rockville to something compare it to Fair Oaks, Vienna, Fairfax City or another place that’s a sleepy burb far away from the action. You don’t want to compare it to these places though because it’s behind by any metric: schools, crime, home appreciation, economic growth, new business openings, etc.

If we’re being honest, besides Bethesda there is no place in MoCo that has residential and retail as nice as Tysons, Clarendon, Crystal City, Old Town, Del Ray, Vienna, Falls Church City, Fairfax City, Mosaic. I could go on. There’s a reason it’s so expensive to live in VA now and you can’t a SFH fixer upper in any of the areas I listed for less than $800,000.

+1, even though it’s not what the delusional MoCo boosters want to hear. MoCo was definitely once king of the burbs — now it’s NoVa and that’s just the way it is.

It's weird to go on and on about MoCo when you don't live or work there.

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

You must be thinking of the other side of the red line, with Glenmont and Wheaton. The eastern side of Rockville like Aspen Hill, touching the silver spring border is the more working class segment. Twinbrook is kinda sleepy and Rockville town center is very safe. Shady grove (and Derwood by extension) is very sleepy, not much happening. It gets “sketch” around Montgomery Village, which is much north of shady grove station.

In fact, most of the “action” has actually happened by pike and rose, where’s there’s lot of foot traffic

No one wants to live in Rockville. Definitely stay away. Definitely live in Bethesda.

I didn’t ask if people “want” to live in Rockville. I asked about price appreciation. If people can’t afford Bethesda, where are they naturally going to look? My first thought was a couple stops up the red line

It’s a bad area, tons of crime. If you buy there you’ll lose money. Don’t look there.

At least it's not the crime-ridden area known as Clarendon in Arlington:

“A bunch of fights with arrests. This was 1:45 a.m. EMS was called & at least one taken away by police from a scuffle on the sidewalk in the area of Clarendon Ballroom & Spider Kelly’s… At 3:00 police found a ‘man down’ at Clarendon & Garfield. And at 3:15 police went into the residential neighborhood to track down people involved in a fight at Big Tony’s Pizza. Just your typical night in Clarendon.”

https://x.com/STATter911/status/1860753354051490032

It is delusional hubris to compare Rockville to Arlington. Arlington used to be part of DC, Rockville is a 30 minute train ride from Metro Center. If you’re going to compare Rockville to something compare it to Fair Oaks, Vienna, Fairfax City or another place that’s a sleepy burb far away from the action. You don’t want to compare it to these places though because it’s behind by any metric: schools, crime, home appreciation, economic growth, new business openings, etc.

If we’re being honest, besides Bethesda there is no place in MoCo that has residential and retail as nice as Tysons, Clarendon, Crystal City, Old Town, Del Ray, Vienna, Falls Church City, Fairfax City, Mosaic. I could go on. There’s a reason it’s so expensive to live in VA now and you can’t a SFH fixer upper in any of the areas I listed for less than $800,000.

+1, even though it’s not what the delusional MoCo boosters want to hear. MoCo was definitely once king of the burbs — now it’s NoVa and that’s just the way it is.

One of the problems with Nova people is that they tend to be very provincial and can't understand that people have different preferences than them. They also have views about areas outside Nova that are often based on hearsay or gossip rather than actually knowing and learning about other areas.

MoCo has always been a place for people who appreciate nice neighborhoods, politics that values kindness, and excellent schools (both public and private). The nice residential/retail areas abound, including downtown Bethesda, Pike & Rose, Rockville Town Center, downtown Takoma Park, and yes even DTSS that people love to hate without ever having been there.

As for not being able to find a SFH under $800K, it's certainly not true that in all of Nova houses are above that price, but yes, in the right neighborhoods, of course that's the case. Likewise, it's true in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac, and significant parts of Kensington, Rockville, and Silver Spring. And I am confident that if people actually spent some time in both places they'd find MoCo to be, on the whole, more pleasant than Nova. I find Tysons and Falls Church City to be not very walkable or pleasant, and I guess Clarendon is fine if you like the drunken college-kid nightlife, but those are just my views; I can at least acknowledge that others may have other preferences.

If you like Nova, that's great, but it is odd that Nova people constantly bombard this board with negativity about Moco, even though all of their negativity is based on stuff that is equally or even more true for Nova.

I agree with this, and I grew up in Nova. I just honestly never really thought much about other areas enough to constantly dump on them the way that some folks here do. Why do you care so much? What is it about MoCo that really makes you mad? Did someone from Rockville dump you and break your heart?

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Rockville is horrible. Don’t buy a house here. Stay in Virginia.

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

You are talking complete nonsense. Rockville is one of the safest areas in MoCo.

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

You must be thinking of the other side of the red line, with Glenmont and Wheaton. The eastern side of Rockville like Aspen Hill, touching the silver spring border is the more working class segment. Twinbrook is kinda sleepy and Rockville town center is very safe. Shady grove (and Derwood by extension) is very sleepy, not much happening. It gets “sketch” around Montgomery Village, which is much north of shady grove station.

In fact, most of the “action” has actually happened by pike and rose, where’s there’s lot of foot traffic

No one wants to live in Rockville. Definitely stay away. Definitely live in Bethesda.

This is such a stupid statement it’s actually funny.

Really? what is good thing happening there except high taxes and crime.