Gorgeous gigantic town home in Gaithersburg for 1.5 M. Puzzled.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe a person looked at a crappy shack in Bethesda for that money and at the big nice house/town-home in the Crown area and said, I'd rather have crappy commute and come home to a nice place and not be depressed all the time? Or maybe they are doctors with a practice nearby or tech people and just liked it?

And all those would be perfectly reasonable choices for SOME people to make. Some people could reasonably make other choices that have nothing to do with racism - it is the contention that the only reason people don't want to live in Gaithersburg is racism that I have objected to.

This is also neither here nor there, but if you really have $1.5M to spend, you can get far more than a crappy shack in Bethesda.

And it is not racist at all. If anything neighborhoods in that area are less diverse. Not to bash Darnestown or anything, but it is like 85% white, same with Kentlands and Lakelands. Bethesda is around 75%. The whole Gaithersburg area is diverse but it is highly segregated but no one really notices this.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what you people say - that’s freaking gorgeous.

yeah but it's in gaithersburg

Another racist. You voted for Trump, right? They look gorgeous from the outside too! Look at new home prices in Urbana, but that is probably ok since Urbana is more white?
https://www.zillow.com/homes/new_homes/16111793_plid/globalrelevanceex_sort/39.387121,-77.22951,39.323541,-77.339373_rect/12_zm/0_mmm/[url]

For crying out loud, there are reasons beyond racism that people might not want to live in Gaithersburg. It is far from DC and jobs in DC and Tysons/NoVa for that matter. It is similarly far from most of the attractions that make DC unique and exciting. There aren't many cultural attractions, highly regarded restaurants, or other things that make you say 'wow, I really want to be in Gaithersburg.'

Sorry, if we aren't all as excited about Crown and Rio as you are.

I assume most of these 'why would anyone not want to live in DC' posters like you are transplants to the area so you are all pressed to be in D.C. I work in DC, live in MD, and would love a job in MD.

You are helping prove my point. You said you would love a job in MD. The problem is that most jobs aren't in MD. You have decided you are willing to accept the longer commute. Many people aren't and being unwilling to have the longer commute doesn't make you racist.

And I never said I would only live in DC. In fact, I now live in MD, just much closer in than Gaithersburg.

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.

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.

^^that is why you find such pricey real estate in the area - because there are a lot of jobs there. Unlike Potomac/Bethesda, a lot of people actually work around Shady Grove Hospital. It is a quick commute.

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This is ridiculus and this is what worries me about living in Bethesda... people seriously think there is no where inhabitable outside the beltway?? These posters are crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe a person looked at a crappy shack in Bethesda for that money and at the big nice house/town-home in the Crown area and said, I'd rather have crappy commute and come home to a nice place and not be depressed all the time? Or maybe they are doctors with a practice nearby or tech people and just liked it?

And all those would be perfectly reasonable choices for SOME people to make. Some people could reasonably make other choices that have nothing to do with racism - it is the contention that the only reason people don't want to live in Gaithersburg is racism that I have objected to.

This is also neither here nor there, but if you really have $1.5M to spend, you can get far more than a crappy shack in Bethesda.

And it is not racist at all. If anything neighborhoods in that area are less diverse. Not to bash Darnestown or anything, but it is like 85% white, same with Kentlands and Lakelands. Bethesda is around 75%. The whole Gaithersburg area is diverse but it is highly segregated but no one really notices this.

But the racist comments are based on the schools and that lord forbid your child is educated with somebody at Gaithersburg who is a POC or Hispanic or in the automotive track (aka not going to college).

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If you thought 1.5 mill was a lot.. look up Masonwood Dr in Darnestown. There is a house listed for $7.6 mill. More than any house listed in all of Bethesda.

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Anonymous wrote:If you thought 1.5 mill was a lot.. look up Masonwood Dr in Darnestown. There is a house listed for $7.6 mill. More than any house listed in all of Bethesda.

There's a $3+M home on Clarksburg.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what you people say - that’s freaking gorgeous.

yeah but it's in gaithersburg

Another racist. You voted for Trump, right? They look gorgeous from the outside too! Look at new home prices in Urbana, but that is probably ok since Urbana is more white?
https://www.zillow.com/homes/new_homes/16111793_plid/globalrelevanceex_sort/39.387121,-77.22951,39.323541,-77.339373_rect/12_zm/0_mmm/[url]

For crying out loud, there are reasons beyond racism that people might not want to live in Gaithersburg. It is far from DC and jobs in DC and Tysons/NoVa for that matter. It is similarly far from most of the attractions that make DC unique and exciting. There aren't many cultural attractions, highly regarded restaurants, or other things that make you say 'wow, I really want to be in Gaithersburg.'

Sorry, if we aren't all as excited about Crown and Rio as you are.

I assume most of these 'why would anyone not want to live in DC' posters like you are transplants to the area so you are all pressed to be in D.C. I work in DC, live in MD, and would love a job in MD.

You are helping prove my point. You said you would love a job in MD. The problem is that most jobs aren't in MD. You have decided you are willing to accept the longer commute. Many people aren't and being unwilling to have the longer commute doesn't make you racist.

And I never said I would only live in DC. In fact, I now live in MD, just much closer in than Gaithersburg.

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.

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.

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.

It’s so clear neither of you PPs know anything about the traffic or commuting. I commute from Clarksburg to DC. The traffic gets worse at two particular exits (one in Gaithersburg and one in Rockville going toward DC and VA). If most ppl do not commute to DC then why are people saying most of the jobs are in DC. People commute to DC, get over it. You see the Maryland tags throughout DC. Someone said there were no jobs in the suburb and now you are saying there are. Well which is it? If the majority of commutes were suburb to suburb then 270 and 495 wouldn’t be a nightmare. You don’t see a lot of ppl getting off 270, just merging on.

And realize that most ppl are moving to the suburb bc most ppl don’t want to spend a large amount on a small space just to live in the city. DC has green space, trails, neighborhoods, and cookouts. What it doesn’t have is affordable and realistic housing options. That’s what the suburbs have.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what you people say - that’s freaking gorgeous.

yeah but it's in gaithersburg

Another racist. You voted for Trump, right? They look gorgeous from the outside too! Look at new home prices in Urbana, but that is probably ok since Urbana is more white?
https://www.zillow.com/homes/new_homes/16111793_plid/globalrelevanceex_sort/39.387121,-77.22951,39.323541,-77.339373_rect/12_zm/0_mmm/[url]

For crying out loud, there are reasons beyond racism that people might not want to live in Gaithersburg. It is far from DC and jobs in DC and Tysons/NoVa for that matter. It is similarly far from most of the attractions that make DC unique and exciting. There aren't many cultural attractions, highly regarded restaurants, or other things that make you say 'wow, I really want to be in Gaithersburg.'

Sorry, if we aren't all as excited about Crown and Rio as you are.

I assume most of these 'why would anyone not want to live in DC' posters like you are transplants to the area so you are all pressed to be in D.C. I work in DC, live in MD, and would love a job in MD.

You are helping prove my point. You said you would love a job in MD. The problem is that most jobs aren't in MD. You have decided you are willing to accept the longer commute. Many people aren't and being unwilling to have the longer commute doesn't make you racist.

And I never said I would only live in DC. In fact, I now live in MD, just much closer in than Gaithersburg.

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.

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.

Then why are there so many ppl merging on at the Gaithersburg and Rockville exits? Those are the worst exits with the most traffic coming onto 270 and the least traffic getting off.

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Obviously it is a Russian money laundering front, what else could it be?!

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The link OP included says it is a single family home. Still puzzled?

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly if you live in the places like DC, Bethesda, ChCh and NEVER visited places like Crown, how the heck you can know what you are talking about? Because if I have been to Bethesda and lived in Bethesda then I know how it looks and feels like and I also go there occasionally so I have a say. It is really funny how many people have an opinion about places they have never seen. Science people. Science. You need to do the research first before you make assumptions or post results. Go make that trip and then I want to hear from you.

i gave a very long and specific answer based on my personal experiences and people just yelled a lot i'm not sure people from Gaithersburg are very nice

+1 PP has no reason to assume that people have never been to Crown and are unfamiliar with the area.

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If you have to try and convince people how nice or well off an area is, it isn’t

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what you people say - that’s freaking gorgeous.

yeah but it's in gaithersburg

Another racist. You voted for Trump, right? They look gorgeous from the outside too! Look at new home prices in Urbana, but that is probably ok since Urbana is more white?
https://www.zillow.com/homes/new_homes/16111793_plid/globalrelevanceex_sort/39.387121,-77.22951,39.323541,-77.339373_rect/12_zm/0_mmm/[url]

For crying out loud, there are reasons beyond racism that people might not want to live in Gaithersburg. It is far from DC and jobs in DC and Tysons/NoVa for that matter. It is similarly far from most of the attractions that make DC unique and exciting. There aren't many cultural attractions, highly regarded restaurants, or other things that make you say 'wow, I really want to be in Gaithersburg.'

Sorry, if we aren't all as excited about Crown and Rio as you are.

I assume most of these 'why would anyone not want to live in DC' posters like you are transplants to the area so you are all pressed to be in D.C. I work in DC, live in MD, and would love a job in MD.

You are helping prove my point. You said you would love a job in MD. The problem is that most jobs aren't in MD. You have decided you are willing to accept the longer commute. Many people aren't and being unwilling to have the longer commute doesn't make you racist.

And I never said I would only live in DC. In fact, I now live in MD, just much closer in than Gaithersburg.

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.

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.

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.

It’s so clear neither of you PPs know anything about the traffic or commuting. I commute from Clarksburg to DC. The traffic gets worse at two particular exits (one in Gaithersburg and one in Rockville going toward DC and VA). If most ppl do not commute to DC then why are people saying most of the jobs are in DC. People commute to DC, get over it. You see the Maryland tags throughout DC. Someone said there were no jobs in the suburb and now you are saying there are. Well which is it? If the majority of commutes were suburb to suburb then 270 and 495 wouldn’t be a nightmare. You don’t see a lot of ppl getting off 270, just merging on.

And realize that most ppl are moving to the suburb bc most ppl don’t want to spend a large amount on a small space just to live in the city. DC has green space, trails, neighborhoods, and cookouts. What it doesn’t have is affordable and realistic housing options. That’s what the suburbs have.

Most people are not commuting to DC. If you have been reading greater washington, WaPo and a number of other places, the refrain again and again is that most commutes are within the suburbs. About 400k people commute into DC, and there are 3.3 million jobs in the metro area. You can go look up the American Community Survey data yourself.

I'm not saying this to minimize your frustration, but to note that most of the employment is not in the city itself.

This data is old, but you can see commutes visually here:
Fairfax commuters http://bigbytes.mobyus.com/commute.aspx?County=59&State=51&MinMiles=0&MaxMiles=29&MaxCoV=0.8&CountyType=home
Montgomery County http://bigbytes.mobyus.com/commute.aspx?County=31&State=24&MinMiles=0&MaxMiles=29&MaxCoV=0.8&CountyType=home

What is interesting is that even with the old data, you have more MD commuters going to VA, than vice versa. I would imagine that things look a bit different with Tysons and the rt28 corrordor being even more developed than they were from that 2006-2010 dataset.

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Anonymous wrote:The link OP included says it is a single family home. Still puzzled?

I thought the same thing!

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Why are we still at this topic? OP went on about TOWN HOME being so expensive. It is not a town home, it is SFH in desirable area walking distance to shops, gyms, highways, movie theaters. And it looks awesome, I've been there. They are HUGE!