Arlington or Montgomery County? [VA/MD]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A vote for Arlington.
Lots of walkable neighborhoods (westover, Lyon park)
Better taxes and better run government.
My kids schools have been less crowded than for my friends who have kids in Bethesda/Chevy chase
Better commute into DC - including more reliable metro line.

Lots of walkable neighborhoods in MoCo
Local government may be fine in Arlington, but state government is questionable
B/CC area schools are crowded because there are so many people who want to live there which belies the NoVa booster's "everyone is fleeing MoCo.. it's a dump".
IDK.. I mean CC is literally next door to DC. Arlington, you have to cross the bridge.

So, I guess OP just has to pick her poison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A vote for Arlington.
Lots of walkable neighborhoods (westover, Lyon park)
Better taxes and better run government.
My kids schools have been less crowded than for my friends who have kids in Bethesda/Chevy chase
Better commute into DC - including more reliable metro line.

LOL
I can have one foot in DC and the other in MoCo. Can you say that? That's right, you have to cross a bridge.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:VA traffic is a nightmare and makes 0 sense to me still.

Moco all the way

I live in Moco and like it, but it's hard to believe that traffic in Moco is superior to VA. Moco has horrific drivers; I've done road trips through most of the U.S., and I think nothing compares to how horrible the drivers in Moco are. I am mainly referring to areas like SS, Bethesda, and Chevy Chase. The drivers are slow, gabbing/texting away on the cell phone, think that pulling over at random points along major roads is acceptable, brake randomly out of nowhere, don't use turn signals, think that a speed camera requires slowing down to 10 miles below the posted speed limit (FYI -- the camera only flashes at 12 above), etc. It's a total s***show.

MD were #7 of worst drivers in the entire country. I don't even need to see the plate and know they are MD drivers. Incredibly dangerous and high speed.

Nah, I think you meant to say Virginia.
https://insurify.com/insights/states-worst-drivers-2022/


And they are the rudest drivers too.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/the-states-with-the-rudest-drivers/ss-BB1gbyTu#image=13

+1 not only that I find MD drivers actually really slow, and VA drivers to be rude and aggressive.

I'm originally from CA. The slow MD drivers annoy me, but the aggressive VA drivers scare me.

MD born and raised..define bad. I am a fantastic driver but drive aggressively. Fantastic in the sense that I’ve never gotten in an accident, can parallel park in the city always on the first try. Do I pass people who are driving slow and instinctively hate them? Yes. I don’t have time to wait for the VA drivers to go 37 on a 35. I never understand how people just dolly around the street. Don’t you people have better places to be than driving around?

Controlled aggressive driving > slow and following the rules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A vote for Arlington.
Lots of walkable neighborhoods (westover, Lyon park)
Better taxes and better run government.
My kids schools have been less crowded than for my friends who have kids in Bethesda/Chevy chase
Better commute into DC - including more reliable metro line.

Lots of walkable neighborhoods in MoCo
Local government may be fine in Arlington, but state government is questionable
B/CC area schools are crowded because there are so many people who want to live there which belies the NoVa booster's "everyone is fleeing MoCo.. it's a dump".
IDK.. I mean CC is literally next door to DC. Arlington, you have to cross the bridge.

So, I guess OP just has to pick her poison.

Most of MoCo is a dump, which is why some hunker down in enclaves in Bethesda and Chevy Chase, but the long-term picture isn’t good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A vote for Arlington.
Lots of walkable neighborhoods (westover, Lyon park)
Better taxes and better run government.
My kids schools have been less crowded than for my friends who have kids in Bethesda/Chevy chase
Better commute into DC - including more reliable metro line.

Lots of walkable neighborhoods in MoCo
Local government may be fine in Arlington, but state government is questionable
B/CC area schools are crowded because there are so many people who want to live there which belies the NoVa booster's "everyone is fleeing MoCo.. it's a dump".
IDK.. I mean CC is literally next door to DC. Arlington, you have to cross the bridge.

So, I guess OP just has to pick her poison.

Most of MoCo is a dump, which is why some hunker down in enclaves in Bethesda and Chevy Chase, but the long-term picture isn’t good.

It's such a dump that Rockville was named one of the best cities to live.

Are there bad parts to MoCo? Sure. Are there bad parts in NoVa? Sure.

Pick your poison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A vote for Arlington.
Lots of walkable neighborhoods (westover, Lyon park)
Better taxes and better run government.
My kids schools have been less crowded than for my friends who have kids in Bethesda/Chevy chase
Better commute into DC - including more reliable metro line.

LOL
I can have one foot in DC and the other in MoCo. Can you say that? That's right, you have to cross a bridge.

NP. I live in Moco, and this is true but misleading because the commute from Arlington is faster to most of the parts of DC where people work. With that said, Moco schools are way better. Yorktown (which is supposedly Arlington's best HS and serves a very affluent population) can't compete with BCC, Whitman, etc., and is more comparable across many metrics to high schools in Moco that serve primarily low income populations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A vote for Arlington.
Lots of walkable neighborhoods (westover, Lyon park)
Better taxes and better run government.
My kids schools have been less crowded than for my friends who have kids in Bethesda/Chevy chase
Better commute into DC - including more reliable metro line.

LOL
I can have one foot in DC and the other in MoCo. Can you say that? That's right, you have to cross a bridge.

NP. I live in Moco, and this is true but misleading because the commute from Arlington is faster to most of the parts of DC where people work. With that said, Moco schools are way better. Yorktown (which is supposedly Arlington's best HS and serves a very affluent population) can't compete with BCC, Whitman, etc., and is more comparable across many metrics to high schools in Moco that serve primarily low income populations.

By what metrics please…cite some. NAEP scores? PISA? SAT? Not US News list from reporters that likely can’t afford Arlington..You may have said this some years back but not in 2022 and certainly not after MCPS’ response to the pandemic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A vote for Arlington.
Lots of walkable neighborhoods (westover, Lyon park)
Better taxes and better run government.
My kids schools have been less crowded than for my friends who have kids in Bethesda/Chevy chase
Better commute into DC - including more reliable metro line.

LOL
I can have one foot in DC and the other in MoCo. Can you say that? That's right, you have to cross a bridge.

NP. I live in Moco, and this is true but misleading because the commute from Arlington is faster to most of the parts of DC where people work. With that said, Moco schools are way better. Yorktown (which is supposedly Arlington's best HS and serves a very affluent population) can't compete with BCC, Whitman, etc., and is more comparable across many metrics to high schools in Moco that serve primarily low income populations.

By what metrics please…cite some. NAEP scores? PISA? SAT? Not US News list from reporters that likely can’t afford Arlington..You may have said this some years back but not in 2022 and certainly not after MCPS’ response to the pandemic.

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