why is MoCo so dumpy now?

[Anonymous]

Can't help but notice MoCo is turning into the pits. You can drive omg the beltway in MoCo or on many local roads and find trash strewn everywhere. So many people seem to dump garbage everywhere now. For a while there on 495 right before the TP exit, there was a crazy amount of trash dumped onto the shoulder....like big contractor bags of industrial trash. Just saw a garbage mattress thrown into the woods today on 495 in MoCo. Sale everywhere else you go on local roads. So much trash dumped everywhere. Panhandlers on every corner. Illegal vendors all over in parking lots selling stuff and dumping trash. Tons of randos hanging out in store parking lots all of the time. Many potholes on roads. Many neighborhoods now with abandoned junk vehicles sitting for months.

MoCo turned into dumpsville USA. How and why did this happen? It is way more noticeable now than even 5 or 10 years ago.

[Anonymous]

I haven’t noticed any rash. What is the “TP” exit? There have always been panhandlers. I haven’t noticed an uptick. In fact there seem to be less around. I have t seen any illegal vendors at places I frequent. Where specifically are you seeing them? Maybe what you are seeing is more prevalent in another part of the county than where I am. It is a large location.

[Anonymous]

Voting has consequences

[Anonymous]

Just wait when they add in all the duplex, triplex, quadplexes near BRTs up New Hampshire etc

[Anonymous]

Ever drive anywhere in Mexico or other CA countries?

Looks familiar, huh?

[Anonymous]

Longtime MoCo resident who drives to VA regularly. I've noticed how "well-kept" it looks. So I guess that's the same thing, noticing the difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I haven’t noticed any rash. What is the “TP” exit? There have always been panhandlers. I haven’t noticed an uptick. In fact there seem to be less around. I have t seen any illegal vendors at places I frequent. Where specifically are you seeing them? Maybe what you are seeing is more prevalent in another part of the county than where I am. It is a large location.

OP is just another Virginia troll that bashes MoCo. Daily thing around here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can't help but notice MoCo is turning into the pits. You can drive omg the beltway in MoCo or on many local roads and find trash strewn everywhere. So many people seem to dump garbage everywhere now. For a while there on 495 right before the TP exit, there was a crazy amount of trash dumped onto the shoulder....like big contractor bags of industrial trash. Just saw a garbage mattress thrown into the woods today on 495 in MoCo. Sale everywhere else you go on local roads. So much trash dumped everywhere. Panhandlers on every corner. Illegal vendors all over in parking lots selling stuff and dumping trash. Tons of randos hanging out in store parking lots all of the time. Many potholes on roads. Many neighborhoods now with abandoned junk vehicles sitting for months.

MoCo turned into dumpsville USA. How and why did this happen? It is way more noticeable now than even 5 or 10 years ago.

It reminds me of the San Fernando Valley in the early-mid 2010’s, when things just started to turn.

It went downhill FAST after it started.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ever drive anywhere in Mexico or other CA countries?

Looks familiar, huh?

Mexico is a NA (North American) country.

[Anonymous]

Migrants

[Anonymous]

Let in lots of poor people.

[Anonymous]

I mean, it's part of Maryland. Maryland as a whole has been in decline for two decades.

CNBC just showed it...

1. Virginia.
31. Maryland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, it's part of Maryland. Maryland as a whole has been in decline for two decades.

CNBC just showed it...

1. Virginia.
31. Maryland.

yet MD is still wealthier and more educated. Go figure.

[Anonymous]

Howard County is noticably cleaner than moco. The parks and trails in moco are littered with trash and piles and bags of dog poop. Howard County parks are so clean! It is sad that we have such a problem here.

[Anonymous]

MoCo is indeed quite trashy. When I moved to Maryland into Silver Spring I thought all of it was a dump until I went to some of the nicer neighborhoods and counties. I heard it used to be a lot nicer which is saddening.