Will Montgomery County ever recover?

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly no. I highly doubt it. Property value follows its school system. I don’t see MCPS turning back to old glory days.

Exactly. Their schools are trashed.

Sigh... yes, generally speaking, MCPS is trashed but there are still pockets of good schools left. Less and less each year.

Wow pls tell me what are the good schools left. You must have experience in mcps..

Been here 30 years, my kids were born and raised here in moco. Kids spent almost 40 years in MCPS so, yeah, I do have experience and history with moco/MCPS. You?

Same here. Now tell me what are the remaining good schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly no. I highly doubt it. Property value follows its school system. I don’t see MCPS turning back to old glory days.

Exactly. Their schools are trashed.

Sigh... yes, generally speaking, MCPS is trashed but there are still pockets of good schools left. Less and less each year.

Wow pls tell me what are the good schools left. You must have experience in mcps..

Been here 30 years, my kids were born and raised here in moco. Kids spent almost 40 years in MCPS so, yeah, I do have experience and history with moco/MCPS. You?

Same here. Now tell me what are the remaining good schools?

Sure you are. If you’ve been here 30 years and still don’t know, you are hopeless. Remember what they used to say about MCPS when you moved here 30 years ago? Think real hard. What a jacka$$.

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The SALT thing expires in nine years. Also VA is a PITA to get anywhere north. I live right by River Road entrance of 495. I rarely enter VA. The traffic is terrible. The Tolls are high.

I mainly drive north to Rockville, DC or Bethesda and to NYC and sometimes beaches by Ocean City

VA is good to avoid taxes but I am not wanting to live or work there. DC and Maryland is already to south for me

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly no. I highly doubt it. Property value follows its school system. I don’t see MCPS turning back to old glory days.

Exactly. Their schools are trashed.

Sigh... yes, generally speaking, MCPS is trashed but there are still pockets of good schools left. Less and less each year.

Wow pls tell me what are the good schools left. You must have experience in mcps..

Been here 30 years, my kids were born and raised here in moco. Kids spent almost 40 years in MCPS so, yeah, I do have experience and history with moco/MCPS. You?

Same here. Now tell me what are the remaining good schools?

Sure you are. If you’ve been here 30 years and still don’t know, you are hopeless. Remember what they used to say about MCPS when you moved here 30 years ago? Think real hard. What a jacka$$.

You are a peach. I know that there are a good number of good schools in this area but since you seem to be adamant that there are only a few good schools left I'm curious to know what those schools are. If the system is so trashy then I would imagine majority of the schools are terrible.

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People talking about schools in close-in districts need to get a grip. There is always a market for both straight and gay couples without kids, wealthy young professionals, divorcees, on and on. Are you going to tell me that the richest parts of San Francisco have the best schools or the people in those houses even care about schools?

Arlington, Alexandria residents don't care about schools. The fact that Alexandria schools are under par is just not going to matter anymore. Not when you have a massive influx of people continuing to flow in who have no kids. For those that do have them after moving in, they move out and another childless couple moves in.

It's not about schools anymore.

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OP, where in MoCo did you buy? Did you buy near metro or out in the burbs?

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Anonymous wrote:Just looking at the appreciation forecasts for Arlington and Fairfax and feeling very depressed. If you had told me 15 years ago that houses would be selling for over 1M in Falls Church I would have never believed it. Our decision to move to Montgomery County over Falls Church or Arlington has probably cost us 600K-800K in lost opportunity equity. We were really on the fence at the time but thought that there was more room for appreciation in Montgomery County.

Is there any chance that things will flip around or will Montgomery County be stagnant or dropping for another 10 years?

You've already lost if you treat your own housing more like the stock market than a roof over your head. If you have a nice house that you live in and enjoy and it is close to work and the house has at least held its value relative to inflation, then what are you complaining about? No one can easily predict which housing markets will actually exponentially increase over 20 - 30 years. Housing should be viewed as a place to live.

+1 but this is an unpopular viewpoint. Everyone wants to believe they are sitting on a goldmine

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Well, I disagree that Arlington doesn’t care about schools anymore. The hell they don’t. That is the reason for enormous price disparities between north and south Arlington. South Arlington is where all the low income housing is located and many schools are high poverty. Wealthy families generally avoid those areas for north Arlington where schools are excellent. Things will only get worse because of the county’s plan for massive amounts of low income housing in south Arlington over the next decade to counteract the amazon effect.

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No. I was born in DC, but grew up in moco. It’s been in decline for at least 20 years. Md is very pro poor people and con business. It’s not sustainable.

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Instead of moaning over the 600k you could have made by choosing the right house to live in, think about the 10's of millions (or more) that you could have made by having the foresight to go all in on bitcoin.

Hindsight is always 20/20, no point in dwelling on it.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I was born in DC, but grew up in moco. It’s been in decline for at least 20 years. Md is very pro poor people and con business. It’s not sustainable.

It’s “anti”.

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OP is a drama queen. This whining about low MoCo appreciation is getting very tiresome when the housing here is already unaffordable.

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The county will be fine

My neighborhood is full of professional educated people who don't want to be house poor with 800k mortgages

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The SALT thing expires in nine years. Also VA is a PITA to get anywhere north. I live right by River Road entrance of 495. I rarely enter VA. The traffic is terrible. The Tolls are high.

I mainly drive north to Rockville, DC or Bethesda and to NYC and sometimes beaches by Ocean City

VA is good to avoid taxes but I am not wanting to live or work there. DC and Maryland is already to south for me

Good, stay out! Too many moving to VA.

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly no. I highly doubt it. Property value follows its school system. I don’t see MCPS turning back to old glory days.

And I don't see NoVa schools catching up to MCPS any time soon.