Amazon's Reality Check for MD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can keep the traffic jams and crowds that will come from this. We'll keep some trees and cleaner air.

What? Bethesda and Rockville are horribly congested with nary a tree in sight.

You must've never been to Bethesda or Rockville past the George town cupcakes shop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly - these fools in Maryland think it’s ‘no big deal’ and ‘at least we were in the top 20!’. Newsflash - everyone does NOT get a trophy.

Hans Riemer thinks it’s hecause we don’t have enough rapid buses. No one wants to ride on a damned rapid bus.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/marylands-amazon-loss-prompts-questions-about-its-competitiveness/2018/12/03/c568085c-e930-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html

But hey - we get a new zillion dollar day laborer job center.
Much fanfare and happiness from CASA Montgomery - an organization which is highly interested in getting low wage jobs for Latin American immigrants but this does not grow our economy here. We are in deep trouble here in MoCo.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/news/county-officials-dedicate-new-immigrant-worker-center-in-wheaton/

People are really bad at distinguishing between "I don't want to do x" and "Nobody wants to do x".

I would love to be able to take a bus that got me up and down 355, in its own lane, with signal priority. But if you prefer sitting in your own car in traffic and watching the bus goes by, that's your prerogative.

[Anonymous]

Wow this thread got nasty - even by DCUM standards...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow this thread got nasty - even by DCUM standards...

This is standard. No doubt OP is from NoVa, but has some hangup on bashing MD. It is a recurring thread here, literary. Don't know why they care. They live in NoVa and yet spend so much time bashing MD. Why? I posted once that it is some insecurity issue, and if NoVa is so great and they love it, even more the reason I don't get it. Rarely is there a thread started about NoVa being bad, in decline, by an MD poster. Now, there are posts about Ws schools and real-estate being awesome and other MoCo pps putting down other parts of MD. Also weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the poster is getting it backwards. The estimate I saw showed a majority in VA

Who in their right mind would want to drive over that bridge every day if they didn’t have to??

People who want to live in a safer, more vibrant part of the region. That includes those who realize VA has Metro.

And don't try to spread misinformation: the ratio of DC-region homicides on the Maryland side of the Potomac to those on the Virginia side is over 7:1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the poster is getting it backwards. The estimate I saw showed a majority in VA

Who in their right mind would want to drive over that bridge every day if they didn’t have to??

People who want to live in a safer, more vibrant part of the region. That includes those who realize VA has Metro.

And don't try to spread misinformation: the ratio of DC-region homicides on the Maryland side of the Potomac to those on the Virginia side is over 7:1.

No clue what that 7:1 means? As in Bethesda vs. all of NOVA? or Bethesda vs. Arlington? Or just dropping off all areas of MD except Bethesda and Chevy Chase from calculations?

Also LOL @ MD being "vibrant" compared to similar areas in VA. It can go either way. The main point "MD is lagging behind VA in policy and development" is conveniently ignored.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow this thread got nasty - even by DCUM standards...

This is standard. No doubt OP is from NoVa, but has some hangup on bashing MD. It is a recurring thread here, literary. Don't know why they care. They live in NoVa and yet spend so much time bashing MD. Why? I posted once that it is some insecurity issue, and if NoVa is so great and they love it, even more the reason I don't get it. Rarely is there a thread started about NoVa being bad, in decline, by an MD poster. Now, there are posts about Ws schools and real-estate being awesome and other MoCo pps putting down other parts of MD. Also weird.

There are definite VA bashing VA threads here as well. If you dont live in the "good parts" of VA then you're pretty much trash. Overall its people with money telling other people they dont have enough money, or to spend all their money trying to live closer to people with money. The cycle of dcum-real estate.

[Anonymous]

Props for all that diversity you've got in NoVa. Oh, wait...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Props for all that diversity you've got in NoVa. Oh, wait...

NoVa is very diverse, but also safe, business-friendly, and home to two airports. Suburban Maryland is not. This does not go unnoticed by businesses.

- Maryland native

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Props for all that diversity you've got in NoVa. Oh, wait...

NoVa is very diverse, but also safe, business-friendly, and home to two airports. Suburban Maryland is not. This does not go unnoticed by businesses.

- Maryland native

NoVa isn't as diverse as MoCo, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Props for all that diversity you've got in NoVa. Oh, wait...

NoVa is very diverse, but also safe, business-friendly, and home to two airports. Suburban Maryland is not. This does not go unnoticed by businesses.

- Maryland native

NoVa isn't as diverse as MoCo, though.

That is true. It is more diverse than PG, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Props for all that diversity you've got in NoVa. Oh, wait...

NoVa is very diverse, but also safe, business-friendly, and home to two airports. Suburban Maryland is not. This does not go unnoticed by businesses.

- Maryland native

NoVa isn't as diverse as MoCo, though.

That is true. It is more diverse than PG, though.

probably, but let's face it, people like to compare NoVA (multiple counties) to MoCo (one county) rather than multiple counties in MD.

As an aside, I just realized that nova means "no go" in Spanish, like the Chevy Nova.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Props for all that diversity you've got in NoVa. Oh, wait...

NoVa is very diverse, but also safe, business-friendly, and home to two airports. Suburban Maryland is not. This does not go unnoticed by businesses.

- Maryland native

No, NoVa is not very diverse. No Nova places/cities have ever made the top 10 or 15 of the most diverse cities.

And you are not a MD native.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Props for all that diversity you've got in NoVa. Oh, wait...

NoVa is very diverse, but also safe, business-friendly, and home to two airports. Suburban Maryland is not. This does not go unnoticed by businesses.

- Maryland native

No, NoVa is not very diverse. No Nova places/cities have ever made the top 10 or 15 of the most diverse cities.

And you are not a MD native.

NoVa is very diverse. It may not make the list of the 10-15 most diverse cities because it is primarily suburban.

I am indeed a Maryland native. When I transferred to school in Virginia, my mid-Atlantic accent (Baltimore/Philly influences) was definitely noticed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Props for all that diversity you've got in NoVa. Oh, wait...

NoVa is very diverse, but also safe, business-friendly, and home to two airports. Suburban Maryland is not. This does not go unnoticed by businesses.

- Maryland native

No, NoVa is not very diverse. No Nova places/cities have ever made the top 10 or 15 of the most diverse cities.

And you are not a MD native.

NoVa is very diverse. It may not make the list of the 10-15 most diverse cities because it is primarily suburban.

I am indeed a Maryland native. When I transferred to school in Virginia, my mid-Atlantic accent (Baltimore/Philly influences) was definitely noticed.

Most of MoCo is a suburb, as is most of NoVa, but MoCo is definitely way more diverse than NoVa.

https://www.blackenterprise.com/the-10-most-diverse-cities-in-america-and-the-10-least-diverse/

other top 10 list of most diverse cities in America (in descending order) are:
Silver Spring, Maryland

Dallas, Texas

Gaithersburg, Maryland

Los Angeles, California

Germantown, Maryland

Long Beach, California

Arlington, Texas


The study looked at five key diversity factors for cities to determine rankings: socioeconomic diversity; cultural diversity; economic diversity; household diversity; and religious diversity. A city’s population, number of educated residents, and age of residents were some of the other weighing factors in the rankings.

“Job opportunities,” was one of the benefits cited by Hilary Green, an associate professor of history in the department of gender and race studies, at the University of Alabama.

“Second, there is an increased quality of life through schools, jobs, green spaces, and cultural events,” stated Green. She said there are no cons to living in a diverse city, “except if the city structure does not embrace the diversity of its populace and [in] providing services and housing for all.”