Is silver spring a decent place to live?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not even comparable. If one has a choice between silver spring vs Rockville, nova, Bethesda etc etc you would never go in SS. Such a silly argument

I could have afforded all of those places, and bought a house in 20910. Love it here. A couple of my neighbors are biglaw partners so evidently not everyone shares your preferences.

[Anonymous]

I think one way of resolving the debate over whether Silver Spring is comparable to Rockville, Bethesda, and the VA suburbs is to say that many of SS's Single Family residential areas are indeed comparable to what many of these other suburbs have to offer but that SS's amenities and commercial zones are also greatly lacking compared to these other suburbs. SS has tons of perfectly pleasant and even affluent neighborhoods (Woodside, North Woodside, Forest Glen etc.) but strangely the amenities and commercial strips in the area almost never reflect this upper middle class population. Instead, the commercial strips tend to cater to the large lower-class that mostly lives in apartments. So I think as a bedroom community SS can be comparable to the other suburbs, but as a place to got out and shop it still lags.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think one way of resolving the debate over whether Silver Spring is comparable to Rockville, Bethesda, and the VA suburbs is to say that many of SS's Single Family residential areas are indeed comparable to what many of these other suburbs have to offer but that SS's amenities and commercial zones are also greatly lacking compared to these other suburbs. SS has tons of perfectly pleasant and even affluent neighborhoods (Woodside, North Woodside, Forest Glen etc.) but strangely the amenities and commercial strips in the area almost never reflect this upper middle class population. Instead, the commercial strips tend to cater to the large lower-class that mostly lives in apartments. So I think as a bedroom community SS can be comparable to the other suburbs, but as a place to got out and shop it still lags.

DTSS has a Whole Foods and a (brand new) Mom's Organic Market, plus a Safeway and Giant. DTSS also has every cuisine imaginable, plus two breweries. Plus an Orange Theory, Rumble, f45 training, and the standard lineup of gyms. And there's a concert venue, a theater venue, an independent movie theater, and a chain movie theater. Also an ice skating rink and a brand new community center with an indoor pool. These are the places where the upper middle class shops, and in DTSS, you can walk to all of it within a several block radius.

You people can't make up your mind because over in the thread about a house in Friendship Heights, everyone complains that FH is not desirable because the retail there is too upscale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think one way of resolving the debate over whether Silver Spring is comparable to Rockville, Bethesda, and the VA suburbs is to say that many of SS's Single Family residential areas are indeed comparable to what many of these other suburbs have to offer but that SS's amenities and commercial zones are also greatly lacking compared to these other suburbs. SS has tons of perfectly pleasant and even affluent neighborhoods (Woodside, North Woodside, Forest Glen etc.) but strangely the amenities and commercial strips in the area almost never reflect this upper middle class population. Instead, the commercial strips tend to cater to the large lower-class that mostly lives in apartments. So I think as a bedroom community SS can be comparable to the other suburbs, but as a place to got out and shop it still lags.

It's North Arlington that has tons of ratty-looking strip malls that include vape stores, pawn shops, and a gun shop that sells a high volume of guns used in crimes. Is that what upper middle class shopping looks like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Silver spring has a large amount of criminal minority demographic

If that's true, then NoVa must have more of them. Crimegrades:

Arlington County: C- (https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-arlington-county-va/)

Fairfax County: B (https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-fairfax-county-va/)

Montgomery County: A+ (https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-montgomery-county-md/)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Silver spring has a large amount of criminal minority demographic

If that's true, then NoVa must have more of them. Crimegrades:

Arlington County: C- (https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-arlington-county-va/)

Fairfax County: B (https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-fairfax-county-va/)

Montgomery County: A+ (https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-montgomery-county-md/)

Yep, Nova is a crime-infested hellhole, which is why the Nova defenders on here keep trying to make false accusations about MoCo. It's a classic Trumpian strategy -- wrongfully accuse the other side of having the problem that you definitely have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Silver spring has a large amount of criminal minority demographic

If that's true, then NoVa must have more of them. Crimegrades:

Arlington County: C- (https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-arlington-county-va/)

Fairfax County: B (https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-fairfax-county-va/)

Montgomery County: A+ (https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-montgomery-county-md/)

Yep, Nova is a crime-infested hellhole, which is why the Nova defenders on here keep trying to make false accusations about MoCo. It's a classic Trumpian strategy -- wrongfully accuse the other side of having the problem that you definitely have.

I’m no Trump fan but wth are you on about. Viewing everything through a red or blue lense sounds depressing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think one way of resolving the debate over whether Silver Spring is comparable to Rockville, Bethesda, and the VA suburbs is to say that many of SS's Single Family residential areas are indeed comparable to what many of these other suburbs have to offer but that SS's amenities and commercial zones are also greatly lacking compared to these other suburbs. SS has tons of perfectly pleasant and even affluent neighborhoods (Woodside, North Woodside, Forest Glen etc.) but strangely the amenities and commercial strips in the area almost never reflect this upper middle class population. Instead, the commercial strips tend to cater to the large lower-class that mostly lives in apartments. So I think as a bedroom community SS can be comparable to the other suburbs, but as a place to got out and shop it still lags.

DTSS has a Whole Foods and a (brand new) Mom's Organic Market, plus a Safeway and Giant. DTSS also has every cuisine imaginable, plus two breweries. Plus an Orange Theory, Rumble, f45 training, and the standard lineup of gyms. And there's a concert venue, a theater venue, an independent movie theater, and a chain movie theater. Also an ice skating rink and a brand new community center with an indoor pool. These are the places where the upper middle class shops, and in DTSS, you can walk to all of it within a several block radius.

You people can't make up your mind because over in the thread about a house in Friendship Heights, everyone complains that FH is not desirable because the retail there is too upscale.

+1. I love how much we can walk to in 20910! In both DTSS and TKPK.

[Anonymous]

Silver spring is probably the most poo-poo 💩 area in the DMV excluding a few places in PG county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not even comparable. If one has a choice between silver spring vs Rockville, nova, Bethesda etc etc you would never go in SS. Such a silly argument

I could have afforded all of those places, and bought a house in 20910. Love it here. A couple of my neighbors are biglaw partners so evidently not everyone shares your preferences.

keep telling yourself that. no one in their right mind that can afford more would live in SS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not even comparable. If one has a choice between silver spring vs Rockville, nova, Bethesda etc etc you would never go in SS. Such a silly argument

I could have afforded all of those places, and bought a house in 20910. Love it here. A couple of my neighbors are biglaw partners so evidently not everyone shares your preferences.

keep telling yourself that. no one in their right mind that can afford more would live in SS

Complete nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not even comparable. If one has a choice between silver spring vs Rockville, nova, Bethesda etc etc you would never go in SS. Such a silly argument

I could have afforded all of those places, and bought a house in 20910. Love it here. A couple of my neighbors are biglaw partners so evidently not everyone shares your preferences.

keep telling yourself that. no one in their right mind that can afford more would live in SS

I choose to. So much for your theory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Silver spring has a large amount of criminal minority demographic

If that's true, then NoVa must have more of them. Crimegrades:

Arlington County: C- (https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-arlington-county-va/)

Fairfax County: B (https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-fairfax-county-va/)

Montgomery County: A+ (https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-montgomery-county-md/)

Lol at you spamming crime grades in desperation to make MoCo look better than it really is. Violent crime and property crime are both higher in MoCo.

wjla.com/amp/news/local/why-is-montgomery-countys-violent-crime-rate-twice-as-high-as-fairfax-countys

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2023/02/08/how-does-crime-in-moco-compare-to-the-region/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Silver spring has a large amount of criminal minority demographic

If that's true, then NoVa must have more of them. Crimegrades:

Arlington County: C- (https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-arlington-county-va/)

Fairfax County: B (https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-fairfax-county-va/)

Montgomery County: A+ (https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-montgomery-county-md/)

Lol at you spamming crime grades in desperation to make MoCo look better than it really is. Violent crime and property crime are both higher in MoCo.

wjla.com/amp/news/local/why-is-montgomery-countys-violent-crime-rate-twice-as-high-as-fairfax-countys

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2023/02/08/how-does-crime-in-moco-compare-to-the-region/

Thanks -- I'll trust crimegrade over your random blogger. I understand how disappointing it must be for you to chosen to live in NoVa because you wanted to believe it was safer, and you furiously spam every thread about MoCo with the claim that crime is out of control there, and it's all turned out to be false.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Silver spring is probably the most poo-poo 💩 area in the DMV excluding a few places in PG county.

So articulate. Ok everyone- Silver Spring is poo poo. Case closed, the wise one has spoken!