Then why is 270 and 495 always so terrible? Where are these ppl going and coming from if not the suburbs? The truth is most ppl commute and most ppl move to the suburbs bc you get more for your money. While you might hate driving, 270 in the morning says many, many ppl are willing to deal with the commute. |
Precisely, you get more for your $ by going further out. That is exactly why people are puzzled town homes in Gaithersburg are being listed for $1.5M. |
270 commute to 495 and on are mostly people in Clarksburg, Urbana and the area going to work in Reston. Most of those people are long distance drivers who would take forever to take any public transportation to get to work. This is the crowd that was priced out of any other areas. For them the car commute is the only solution. People who buy in Gaithersburg work in Gaithersburg or Rockville. That area is called Technology Corridor for a reason. It is tons and tons and tons of IT comanies and Med Research. For them it is only reasonable solution to buy home locally. Why commute to any other area if you can have 10 minute commute to work. |
Most people do not commute to DC. Most people move to the outer suburbs because they don't like smog, traffic, crime and crazy intense people. They like green space, hiking trails (on the woods, not on the street like Capital Crescent Trail), neighborhoods and cookouts with friends. |
No they move out of the city because they hate the city. |
How is that in any way responsive to the prior post? |
People choose Gaithersburg over inner suburbs, such as Bethesda because of crime? It is also great to know that we don't have neighborhoods, cookouts, or down to earth people. You seem to have this image of what life is like in other areas that bears little resemblance to reality. |
The PP said people move to the burgs for cheaper housing. That is not true. |
No, they don't choose Bethesda because of traffic and crazy intense people. Not to mention having their children hang out with kids with lawyers on speed dial and lots of money for drugs. |
Those would be the stereotypes that bear little resemblance to reality I mentioned. If it makes you feel better to think that is what life is like, have at it. |
It absolutely is true for many people, but that's still not what PP said. The PP was simply agreeing with a prior poster saying you get more for your money further out. That is simply an objective fact and would remain fact even if all people in the further burbs were there because they prefer it and not because it is cheaper. People who want to be in the outer burbs pay get the same advantage of cheaper housing as those who choose them because of the cheaper housing. |
It says... "The truth is most ppl commute and most ppl move to the suburbs bc you get more for your money" I assume bc, means because. Also, most people do not commute and most people do not move to the burbs BC you get more for your money. Most people live in the burbs BC, they hate city life, smog, traffic, etc. |
Most commutes here are suburb to suburb. Most of the STEM/IT/Biotech jobs are all in the suburbs. Same for most of the banking related jobs. DC's population is dwarfed by the suburbs. MoCo, PG Fairfax are each roughly 50% bigger than DC's population. |
We were referring to different prior posts. I was referring to the most recent post you replied to which simply said you get more for your money. I take it you were referring to the post before that where someone did say that is why (or the "because") people move further out. Fair enough. As for the substantive point, I think you are underestimating the # of people who move further out, at least in significant part, because it is cheaper. |
I think you are significantly underestimating how many people move from other location in the US and are horrified by the city. You act like every single being is spawned in the city and then moves from there kicking and screaming due to housing costs. |