Takoma Park MD if you're not woke

[Anonymous]

Ugh. This thread is years 4 years old, folks.

Not sure why it got ressurrected.

[Anonymous]

Because people are tired of Takoma Park high taxes, hypocrisy, and far left bullshit and people are looking for the voices in TP that get quashed by the vocal far left. Welcome to 2024: hopefully the year people in TP come to their senses.

[Anonymous]

I hate this town. I love my home, but the politicians are feckless and stupid, especially the new mayor and nobody but the “woke” has any rights.

[Anonymous]

I think your main issue will be finding people who are down to earth in TKPK and think that our friends in Silver Spring (Four Corners area) have nicer neighbors who are actually down to earth. Lots of holier than thou parents in Takoma Park who are hard core against junk food, shaming about age appropriate misbehavior, and overschedule their kids. Not everyone of course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. This thread is years 4 years old, folks.

Not sure why it got ressurrected.

MAGA gotta stoke the culture wars!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t. People will just try to argue with you. Some will call you a racist for espousing Republican ideals. Try Kensington. More Republicans there.

Uh, no on the Kensington Republicans. During the last election, I counted the yard signs on the small loop I walk daily. It was 31 Biden to 2 Trump. I am Republican so I wish there were more of us here, but it is not so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. This thread is years 4 years old, folks.

Not sure why it got ressurrected.

MAGA gotta stoke the culture wars!

There are plenty of us here who aren’t MAGA types, yet we roll our eyes at the TP politicians.

The world isn’t so binary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you define “woke”?

Is the opposite “asleep”?

If you want to live somewhere “asleep,” maybe Reston is good for you.

Virtue signaling, dogmatic, ideological people who firmly believe they're on the right side of history and sneer at those who don't agree with them as lesser species. You know, the people who call you racist no matter what you say, transphobic no matter what you say, etc, and that you are the second coming of you know what just for daring to vote differently. They pride themselves for being tolerant and open-minded while simultaneously being the most intolerant and judgmental people.

Sounds like the flip side of your basic MAGA in the Fox News comments section.

[Anonymous]

TP and Bethesda are two sides of the same coin.

Neither is laid back but for different reasons.

I’m the sup lib that does not like TP. It’s very in your face liberal politics instead of liberal beliefs in action. Like most would not be caught dead living in PG. (except maybe hyattsville)

Take any liberal belief and take it to the extreme and then argue until they are blue in the face and slip in a mention of their PhD to show they are better.

Very liberal politics but not liberal in practice.

We should be friends

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. This thread is years 4 years old, folks.

Not sure why it got ressurrected.

MAGA gotta stoke the culture wars!

There are plenty of us here who aren’t MAGA types, yet we roll our eyes at the TP politicians.

The world isn’t so binary.

The US is the most binary it's been in a couple generations. The Republican party is all in on Trump and his populist horror train.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't drive a Prius or Subaru, with a "Coexist" bumper sticker on the back, you'll be ostracized.

Liberal who drives a Subaru here. I can't stand those darn Coexist bumper stickers. They strike me as so grossly performative and preachy that I get angry at an irrational level every time I see one.

+1, and I’m another liberal who drives an EV—and lives in Takoma Park. I also don’t have performative lawn signs. In fact, the bumper sticker and lawn signs are a small minority. Some pps here are channeling David Brooks’ book where he claims we’re all “frizzy-haired” profs who love to lecture others. In fact nothing could be further from the truth. In my neighborhood, one of the nicest in TPK, the only woman who gets sh!t-talked is the one who lets her cats roam free.

The pp who said that there’s a kernel of rapidity aging hippies, and the new families are relatively wealthy and here for the schools, has it right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're looking for a close-in, affordable neighborhood with friendly neighbors etc, and TKPK seems like it would fit the bill ... We're not super political (I trend left, DW right) ... but DW's perception is that the lefty politics are an identity thing there, and that folks get hostile/snobby if you don't share their views. What are your experiences?

It’s totally fine whether you’re woke or not. I do think it’s considered dangerous at night though so you might want to be careful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't drive a Prius or Subaru, with a "Coexist" bumper sticker on the back, you'll be ostracized.

Liberal who drives a Subaru here. I can't stand those darn Coexist bumper stickers. They strike me as so grossly performative and preachy that I get angry at an irrational level every time I see one.

+1, and I’m another liberal who drives an EV—and lives in Takoma Park. I also don’t have performative lawn signs. In fact, the bumper sticker and lawn signs are a small minority. Some pps here are channeling David Brooks’ book where he claims we’re all “frizzy-haired” profs who love to lecture others. In fact nothing could be further from the truth. In my neighborhood, one of the nicest in TPK, the only woman who gets sh!t-talked is the one who lets her cats roam free.

The pp who said that there’s a kernel of rapidity aging hippies, and the new families are relatively wealthy and here for the schools, has it right.

Agree, and I live in TKPK, too. I am not "woke" at all, and I am not even "left" on most social issues. I do think that you will find that Trump is largely hated here, so if you were big a Trump supporter, you would probably not find your people. But that's the case with most neighborhoods in the DC area. I also don't mind people disagreeing with my take on social or political issues when they do come up, so I don't feel the need to search out people with my exact beliefs. But I would say, mostly people don't talk about politics here. People come here mainly for the housing stock, decent schools, and the town feel. There are lots of very social neighbors with interesting professional and personal backgrounds, and it feels fairly suburban while being convenient to a lot of urban benefits (like museums, concerts, etc.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're looking for a close-in, affordable neighborhood with friendly neighbors etc, and TKPK seems like it would fit the bill ... We're not super political (I trend left, DW right) ... but DW's perception is that the lefty politics are an identity thing there, and that folks get hostile/snobby if you don't share their views. What are your experiences?

It’s totally fine whether you’re woke or not. I do think it’s considered dangerous at night though so you might want to be careful.

It depends on where you live whether you'd consider it dangerous at night. Most of the TKPK neighborhoods that are MC or UMC are quite safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're looking for a close-in, affordable neighborhood with friendly neighbors etc, and TKPK seems like it would fit the bill ... We're not super political (I trend left, DW right) ... but DW's perception is that the lefty politics are an identity thing there, and that folks get hostile/snobby if you don't share their views. What are your experiences?

It’s totally fine whether you’re woke or not. I do think it’s considered dangerous at night though so you might want to be careful.

Most close-in places in the DMV are dangerous at night, though.