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11/28/2024 13:32

Subject: Is silver spring a decent place to live?

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Anonymous wrote:Why do people keep bringing up an unsolved murder from SS that happened TWO YEARS AGO? Or, more likely, it's just one person on this board who is fixated on it. I live within a five-minute walk of that garage, and it's practically full all the time, so evidently most people have gotten over it. Probably hundreds of thousands of people have used that garage safely since then.

There are tons of unsolved murders everywhere in this region, including this one:

https://www.arlnow.com/2024/02/20/four-years-after-unsolved-ballston-murder-no-new-details-from-police/

I have lived in Arlington and I have lived in Silver Spring. To not acknowledge that Downtown Silver Spring has not dramatically slid downhill over the past 10-15 years while places like Ballston Quarter and Crystal City have evolved into much nicer places than they were 10-15 years ago is just delusional. No objective person would say otherwise. Electing politicians who create a business and regulatory climate like there is in MoCo has consequences. And places like Downtown Silver Spring are emblematic of these choices.

Don’t believe me? Walk around the “mall” in Downtown Silver Spring and then go walk around Ballston Quarter. Ballston Quarter feels like Dubai by comparison. The mall in Downtown Silver Spring is a depressing crap hole.

Newsflash: nobody shops at the mall in Downtown Silver Spring. There are some good restaurants in the streets around the mall, but nobody ever goes inside unless they're desperate for super-cheap shoes. Plus, most Silver Spring housing is somewhat distant from the mall. So your comparison isn't relevant.

So no one goes there is a defense of it being okay? “The only indoor mall in Downtown Silver Spring is a depressing crap hole but it’s okay because no one goes there.” Okay…

Ballston used to be a depressing wasteland but Ballston Quarter is now much nicer than any mall in MD besides Montgomery Mall. Same with Springfield Mall. The reason is that VA is growing every year while MD is slowly decaying and its boosters are pretending it’s still 2010.

I hope people visit Ballston Quarter if that's really what Nova people think constitutes some sort of marvel of urban planning. While you get a sense for how horribly designed it all is, you can also take note all of the empty storefronts.

Also, why no mention of Pentagon City? Yikes. Most people I know who live in Nova refuse to step foot in that mall. People are so obsessed about a parking garage murder in Silver Spring that I guess they forget about this one: https://www.arlnow.com/2019/07/02/just-in-man-shot-in-pentagon-city-mall-parking-garage-has-died/

The irony of Pentagon City is that the reason that the mall is a no-go zone is 100% literally because of people who live in Maryland. The mall is dumpy and ghetto because people from PG, who don't have nice retail options due to a lack of private investment in their jurisdiction, drive over the Woodrow Wilson Bridge to go shopping at Pentagon City. If you track most of the robberies, shootings, and other crimes in Pentagon City where a suspect has been named, it is almost always a Maryland Resident.

Face it, MoCo and PG have gotten worse and worse. I've been here for 30 years and it is as plain as day. You people will continue to be in denial and be wrong like with every other issue on this forum (Kamala is winning, right?). It seems as though people here enjoy being wrong.

Such dishonesty: the Pentagon City criminals are from DC and Virginia. For example:

https://www.arlnow.com/2024/10/04/acpd-officer-suffers-knife-wound-after-struggle-with-theft-suspect-in-pentagon-city/ (DC resident)

https://www.arlnow.com/2024/08/27/acpd-two-officers-injured-by-theft-suspect-in-pentagon-city/ (DC resident)

https://www.arlnow.com/2024/10/30/man-charged-with-brandishing-bb-gun-in-pentagon-city/ (Arlington resident)

https://patch.com/virginia/arlington-va/dc-man-arrested-following-scuffle-pentagon-metro-station-police (DC resident)

Sorry your mall is so awful and has become a haven for criminals.

Ok, I should have said DC as well. It was an error on my part omitting that. However, you cherry picked 4 examples specifically avoiding Maryland suspects, and three of them are from DC. There are many many examples of PG county idiots committing crimes around Pentagon City. DC and PG county people are 100% the overwhelming majority of criminals there, not VA residents.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/he-wasnt-thinking-mother-mourns-son-killed-in-alexandria-carjacking-attempt/3055262/

This is my favorite example. Guy from PG got clipped for doing PG county activities.

We're not going to convince each other. The difference is that you are living in lala land where MD isn't a shithole outside of Bethesda, and I am living in reality where it is.