Is silver spring a decent place to live?

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Anonymous wrote:Go to Wheaton Mall on a weekend and tell me it’s less depressing than Springfield, Fair Oaks, or Pentagon City malls. It’s not just about crime, a lot of young people in MoCo are dressed in pajamas all the time and look like they’ve given up at life. There’s a certain sense of despair and ennui that exists among young people in MoCo, specifically in Silver Spring and points north and east, that doesn’t exist in the same percentages of young people in NoVA and DC.

Yikes, the fashion police! Please stay in NoVA.

(BTW, when I was a teen, I basically wore sweats to school all the time and got into Harvard, Yale, and many other schools.)

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Anonymous wrote:As a 32-year resident of Silver Spring 20902, I find all this very entertaining. The only thing you may need to worry about is navigating your way through the thousands of families walking their dog every day.

Same thoughts here from 20902. Silver spring is huge and DTSS will have some crime, but overall there are plenty of nice, safe, family friendly neighborhoods across multiple price points if you’re willing to live somewhere with a little diversity.

Generally I agree but if you talk to anyone in 20902 lately, they might have concerns about the increased, and repeated, car break-ins.

I'm in 20902 and we don't have break-in (or other crime) issues around us.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to Wheaton Mall on a weekend and tell me it’s less depressing than Springfield, Fair Oaks, or Pentagon City malls. It’s not just about crime, a lot of young people in MoCo are dressed in pajamas all the time and look like they’ve given up at life. There’s a certain sense of despair and ennui that exists among young people in MoCo, specifically in Silver Spring and points north and east, that doesn’t exist in the same percentages of young people in NoVA and DC.

Who goes to the mall? They’re all depressing.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to Wheaton Mall on a weekend and tell me it’s less depressing than Springfield, Fair Oaks, or Pentagon City malls. It’s not just about crime, a lot of young people in MoCo are dressed in pajamas all the time and look like they’ve given up at life. There’s a certain sense of despair and ennui that exists among young people in MoCo, specifically in Silver Spring and points north and east, that doesn’t exist in the same percentages of young people in NoVA and DC.

This is so weird. The Wheaton Mall has Target and Costco. It's very convenient. You think that people dress differently at Target in Wheaton than they do in Fairfax?

The Target in Wheaton is the most run down Target I’ve ever been to in my
life. Even the Target in Columbia Heights has less stuff thrown on the ground and is less of a general mess.

It’d be interesting for people who have experience going regularly between MoCo and NoVA have to say about this. I can’t be the only one to notice how depressing Wheaton and Silver Spring are compared to the rest of the region.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to Wheaton Mall on a weekend and tell me it’s less depressing than Springfield, Fair Oaks, or Pentagon City malls. It’s not just about crime, a lot of young people in MoCo are dressed in pajamas all the time and look like they’ve given up at life. There’s a certain sense of despair and ennui that exists among young people in MoCo, specifically in Silver Spring and points north and east, that doesn’t exist in the same percentages of young people in NoVA and DC.

This is so weird. The Wheaton Mall has Target and Costco. It's very convenient. You think that people dress differently at Target in Wheaton than they do in Fairfax?

The Target in Wheaton is the most run down Target I’ve ever been to in my
life. Even the Target in Columbia Heights has less stuff thrown on the ground and is less of a general mess.

It’d be interesting for people who have experience going regularly between MoCo and NoVA have to say about this. I can’t be the only one to notice how depressing Wheaton and Silver Spring are compared to the rest of the region.

I don’t base my home buying decisions in how a particular Target appears to look.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to Wheaton Mall on a weekend and tell me it’s less depressing than Springfield, Fair Oaks, or Pentagon City malls. It’s not just about crime, a lot of young people in MoCo are dressed in pajamas all the time and look like they’ve given up at life. There’s a certain sense of despair and ennui that exists among young people in MoCo, specifically in Silver Spring and points north and east, that doesn’t exist in the same percentages of young people in NoVA and DC.

This is so weird. The Wheaton Mall has Target and Costco. It's very convenient. You think that people dress differently at Target in Wheaton than they do in Fairfax?

The Target in Wheaton is the most run down Target I’ve ever been to in my
life. Even the Target in Columbia Heights has less stuff thrown on the ground and is less of a general mess.

It’d be interesting for people who have experience going regularly between MoCo and NoVA have to say about this. I can’t be the only one to notice how depressing Wheaton and Silver Spring are compared to the rest of the region.

I'm at the Wheaton Target fairly regularly, and that's not been my experience.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to Wheaton Mall on a weekend and tell me it’s less depressing than Springfield, Fair Oaks, or Pentagon City malls. It’s not just about crime, a lot of young people in MoCo are dressed in pajamas all the time and look like they’ve given up at life. There’s a certain sense of despair and ennui that exists among young people in MoCo, specifically in Silver Spring and points north and east, that doesn’t exist in the same percentages of young people in NoVA and DC.

This is so weird. The Wheaton Mall has Target and Costco. It's very convenient. You think that people dress differently at Target in Wheaton than they do in Fairfax?

The Target in Wheaton is the most run down Target I’ve ever been to in my
life. Even the Target in Columbia Heights has less stuff thrown on the ground and is less of a general mess.

It’d be interesting for people who have experience going regularly between MoCo and NoVA have to say about this. I can’t be the only one to notice how depressing Wheaton and Silver Spring are compared to the rest of the region.

I don’t base my home buying decisions in how a particular Target appears to look.

I could go into grocery stores as well. Compare the Harris Teeters in Bethesda and North Bethesda to the ones in Arlington. Not even close. The Whole Foods in Pentagon City and Clarendon are nicer than the ones on River Road and North Bethesda as well.

Compare the iPic in Pike and Rose to the theater in the Mosaic District or the dine in theater in Tysons Galleria, which are far nicer experiences despite not being as expensive. The iPic is barely vacuumed and staffed by burnouts but costs $22 a ticket.

In general, the entire retail experience is much more pleasurable in NoVA. Better ethnic food options as well, except for Chinese. Kabobs, Vietnamese, Thai are all better in close in VA.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to Wheaton Mall on a weekend and tell me it’s less depressing than Springfield, Fair Oaks, or Pentagon City malls. It’s not just about crime, a lot of young people in MoCo are dressed in pajamas all the time and look like they’ve given up at life. There’s a certain sense of despair and ennui that exists among young people in MoCo, specifically in Silver Spring and points north and east, that doesn’t exist in the same percentages of young people in NoVA and DC.

This is so weird. The Wheaton Mall has Target and Costco. It's very convenient. You think that people dress differently at Target in Wheaton than they do in Fairfax?

The Target in Wheaton is the most run down Target I’ve ever been to in my
life. Even the Target in Columbia Heights has less stuff thrown on the ground and is less of a general mess.

It’d be interesting for people who have experience going regularly between MoCo and NoVA have to say about this. I can’t be the only one to notice how depressing Wheaton and Silver Spring are compared to the rest of the region.

I'm at the Wheaton Target fairly regularly, and that's not been my experience.

+1. I really have no idea what that PP is referring to.

But as for depressing, I find the sprawl and chaotic zoning in NoVa to be pretty awful.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to Wheaton Mall on a weekend and tell me it’s less depressing than Springfield, Fair Oaks, or Pentagon City malls. It’s not just about crime, a lot of young people in MoCo are dressed in pajamas all the time and look like they’ve given up at life. There’s a certain sense of despair and ennui that exists among young people in MoCo, specifically in Silver Spring and points north and east, that doesn’t exist in the same percentages of young people in NoVA and DC.

This is so weird. The Wheaton Mall has Target and Costco. It's very convenient. You think that people dress differently at Target in Wheaton than they do in Fairfax?

The Target in Wheaton is the most run down Target I’ve ever been to in my
life. Even the Target in Columbia Heights has less stuff thrown on the ground and is less of a general mess.

It’d be interesting for people who have experience going regularly between MoCo and NoVA have to say about this. I can’t be the only one to notice how depressing Wheaton and Silver Spring are compared to the rest of the region.

I'm at the Wheaton Target fairly regularly, and that's not been my experience.

Go to any Target in Arlington and then judge. The point is to get feedback from people who are in VA and MD frequently so they have something to judge it against.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to Wheaton Mall on a weekend and tell me it’s less depressing than Springfield, Fair Oaks, or Pentagon City malls. It’s not just about crime, a lot of young people in MoCo are dressed in pajamas all the time and look like they’ve given up at life. There’s a certain sense of despair and ennui that exists among young people in MoCo, specifically in Silver Spring and points north and east, that doesn’t exist in the same percentages of young people in NoVA and DC.

This is so weird. The Wheaton Mall has Target and Costco. It's very convenient. You think that people dress differently at Target in Wheaton than they do in Fairfax?

The Target in Wheaton is the most run down Target I’ve ever been to in my
life. Even the Target in Columbia Heights has less stuff thrown on the ground and is less of a general mess.

It’d be interesting for people who have experience going regularly between MoCo and NoVA have to say about this. I can’t be the only one to notice how depressing Wheaton and Silver Spring are compared to the rest of the region.

I don’t base my home buying decisions in how a particular Target appears to look.

I could go into grocery stores as well. Compare the Harris Teeters in Bethesda and North Bethesda to the ones in Arlington. Not even close.

Not my experience at all. I have been to the Harris Teeters in Bethesda and North Bethesda, and the two in North Arlington, and the North Arlington ones are way dirtier. The Bethesda ones are smaller, but much nicer.

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Isn't it odd how a bunch of people from NoVa take over a thread about Silver Spring and can't stop trying to come up with random examples of how NoVa is supposedly better. I guess this inferiority complex must be something unique to NoVa -- on that score, they definitely beat out the rest of the DMV.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to Wheaton Mall on a weekend and tell me it’s less depressing than Springfield, Fair Oaks, or Pentagon City malls. It’s not just about crime, a lot of young people in MoCo are dressed in pajamas all the time and look like they’ve given up at life. There’s a certain sense of despair and ennui that exists among young people in MoCo, specifically in Silver Spring and points north and east, that doesn’t exist in the same percentages of young people in NoVA and DC.

This is so weird. The Wheaton Mall has Target and Costco. It's very convenient. You think that people dress differently at Target in Wheaton than they do in Fairfax?

The Target in Wheaton is the most run down Target I’ve ever been to in my
life. Even the Target in Columbia Heights has less stuff thrown on the ground and is less of a general mess.

It’d be interesting for people who have experience going regularly between MoCo and NoVA have to say about this. I can’t be the only one to notice how depressing Wheaton and Silver Spring are compared to the rest of the region.

I don’t base my home buying decisions in how a particular Target appears to look.

I could go into grocery stores as well. Compare the Harris Teeters in Bethesda and North Bethesda to the ones in Arlington. Not even close. The Whole Foods in Pentagon City and Clarendon are nicer than the ones on River Road and North Bethesda as well.

Compare the iPic in Pike and Rose to the theater in the Mosaic District or the dine in theater in Tysons Galleria, which are far nicer experiences despite not being as expensive. The iPic is barely vacuumed and staffed by burnouts but costs $22 a ticket.

In general, the entire retail experience is much more pleasurable in NoVA. Better ethnic food options as well, except for Chinese. Kabobs, Vietnamese, Thai are all better in close in VA.

This is such a weird comment. The grocery stores in MoCo are nice? Safeway is sad everywhere. And north Bethesda is kind of soulless because of all the development. But NoVa has way more soulless development, so it’s kinda funny that you ding it on that regard.
iPic not vacuumed? Do you hear yourself? That obviously depends on the time and day lmao. Pike and Rose is “nice” in the same way Mosaic is “nice”. There’s no Tysons equivalent in MD: downtown Bethesda is densifying rapidly and Montgomery mall would be the closest and it’s doing very well for a mall.

“Retail experience” you sound like a business owner. I think this probably gives it away. You’re “at work” right now on a mommy forum trying to sell NoVa to prospective customers. MoCo puts soul and neighborhood character over profits. You can’t sell that to people at Tysons

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we moved out of SS due to crime as it was getting bad every day and we didn't like the quality of education as deteriorated at schools. Our eldest kid went to school at SS and it was awesome but we can't say the same thing about youngest one.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to Wheaton Mall on a weekend and tell me it’s less depressing than Springfield, Fair Oaks, or Pentagon City malls. It’s not just about crime, a lot of young people in MoCo are dressed in pajamas all the time and look like they’ve given up at life. There’s a certain sense of despair and ennui that exists among young people in MoCo, specifically in Silver Spring and points north and east, that doesn’t exist in the same percentages of young people in NoVA and DC.

This is so weird. The Wheaton Mall has Target and Costco. It's very convenient. You think that people dress differently at Target in Wheaton than they do in Fairfax?

The Target in Wheaton is the most run down Target I’ve ever been to in my
life. Even the Target in Columbia Heights has less stuff thrown on the ground and is less of a general mess.

It’d be interesting for people who have experience going regularly between MoCo and NoVA have to say about this. I can’t be the only one to notice how depressing Wheaton and Silver Spring are compared to the rest of the region.

I don’t base my home buying decisions in how a particular Target appears to look.

I could go into grocery stores as well. Compare the Harris Teeters in Bethesda and North Bethesda to the ones in Arlington. Not even close. The Whole Foods in Pentagon City and Clarendon are nicer than the ones on River Road and North Bethesda as well.

Compare the iPic in Pike and Rose to the theater in the Mosaic District or the dine in theater in Tysons Galleria, which are far nicer experiences despite not being as expensive. The iPic is barely vacuumed and staffed by burnouts but costs $22 a ticket.

In general, the entire retail experience is much more pleasurable in NoVA. Better ethnic food options as well, except for Chinese. Kabobs, Vietnamese, Thai are all better in close in VA.

That’s your opinion.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to Wheaton Mall on a weekend and tell me it’s less depressing than Springfield, Fair Oaks, or Pentagon City malls. It’s not just about crime, a lot of young people in MoCo are dressed in pajamas all the time and look like they’ve given up at life. There’s a certain sense of despair and ennui that exists among young people in MoCo, specifically in Silver Spring and points north and east, that doesn’t exist in the same percentages of young people in NoVA and DC.

This is so weird. The Wheaton Mall has Target and Costco. It's very convenient. You think that people dress differently at Target in Wheaton than they do in Fairfax?

The Target in Wheaton is the most run down Target I’ve ever been to in my
life. Even the Target in Columbia Heights has less stuff thrown on the ground and is less of a general mess.

It’d be interesting for people who have experience going regularly between MoCo and NoVA have to say about this. I can’t be the only one to notice how depressing Wheaton and Silver Spring are compared to the rest of the region.

I'm at the Wheaton Target fairly regularly, and that's not been my experience.

Go to any Target in Arlington and then judge. The point is to get feedback from people who are in VA and MD frequently so they have something to judge it against.

You sound really weird.