Why is everyone in Takoma Park weird?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of TP are upper middle class, liberal families who work regular jobs as feds, lawyers, academics, etc. Just normal people. However, the people that dominate city politics and have the tjme and energy to engage with the City Council are the older aging hippies who are sometimes ridiculous. But it’s not at all representative of the community as a whole.

Signed TP resident of 15 years

This.

+1 (10+ year TP resident)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of TP are upper middle class, liberal families who work regular jobs as feds, lawyers, academics, etc. Just normal people. However, the people that dominate city politics and have the tjme and energy to engage with the City Council are the older aging hippies who are sometimes ridiculous. But it’s not at all representative of the community as a whole.

Signed TP resident of 15 years

This is true and false. Those white collar families chose to live with the hippies because they enjoy it and mostly agree with them.

Nope. People live in TP because it is close-in, has good schools and nice neighborhoods. Signed, moderate (if not center-right) and very happy TP resident.

[Anonymous]

Are you new to the area? Takoma Park has always been hippie and also full of journalists due to its affordability.

Just wait until you Google the “purple people.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of TP are upper middle class, liberal families who work regular jobs as feds, lawyers, academics, etc. Just normal people. However, the people that dominate city politics and have the tjme and energy to engage with the City Council are the older aging hippies who are sometimes ridiculous. But it’s not at all representative of the community as a whole.

Signed TP resident of 15 years

This. The loudest voices in MoCo are the weirdest ones.

Other people are pretty normal. Mostly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of TP are upper middle class, liberal families who work regular jobs as feds, lawyers, academics, etc. Just normal people. However, the people that dominate city politics and have the tjme and energy to engage with the City Council are the older aging hippies who are sometimes ridiculous. But it’s not at all representative of the community as a whole.

Signed TP resident of 15 years

This is true and false. Those white collar families chose to live with the hippies because they enjoy it and mostly agree with them.

Nope. People live in TP because it is close-in, has good schools and nice neighborhoods. Signed, moderate (if not center-right) and very happy TP resident.

This is hilarious. Silver Spring exists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as you don’t delve too deeply into the various Takoma listservs, you’ll be fine.

OMG! This neighborhood listserves are hilarious!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes? Takoma Park if for the rich, aging, hippies who lean far left. They have to live somewhere and the country club folks in Chevy Chase are just as glad it’s not with them.

Most of us younger than 60 can't afford to live there.

[Anonymous]

Mount Rainier is like this as well, just as a warning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of TP are upper middle class, liberal families who work regular jobs as feds, lawyers, academics, etc. Just normal people. However, the people that dominate city politics and have the tjme and energy to engage with the City Council are the older aging hippies who are sometimes ridiculous. But it’s not at all representative of the community as a whole.

Signed TP resident of 15 years

This is true and false. Those white collar families chose to live with the hippies because they enjoy it and mostly agree with them.

Nope. People live in TP because it is close-in, has good schools and nice neighborhoods. Signed, moderate (if not center-right) and very happy TP resident.

This is hilarious. Silver Spring exists.

Silver Spring has declined while TP is mostly the same, if not a little better. Montgomery County is seems pretty determined to make Silver Spring even worse while TP will escape their policy decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As long as you don’t delve too deeply into the various Takoma listservs, you’ll be fine.

OMG! This neighborhood listserves are hilarious!

Wait until you hear about the latest post comparing people’s desire to upzone to some fungus that made people in France crazy in the 1800s and also Trump for some reason.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of TP are upper middle class, liberal families who work regular jobs as feds, lawyers, academics, etc. Just normal people. However, the people that dominate city politics and have the tjme and energy to engage with the City Council are the older aging hippies who are sometimes ridiculous. But it’s not at all representative of the community as a whole.

Signed TP resident of 15 years

This is true and false. Those white collar families chose to live with the hippies because they enjoy it and mostly agree with them.

Nope. People live in TP because it is close-in, has good schools and nice neighborhoods. Signed, moderate (if not center-right) and very happy TP resident.

This is hilarious. Silver Spring exists.

Silver Spring has declined while TP is mostly the same, if not a little better. Montgomery County is seems pretty determined to make Silver Spring even worse while TP will escape their policy decisions.

This is funny. Basically you are arguing that Takoma Park is special because it’s been able to avert change. Making it more desirable.

[Anonymous]

It’s a feature, not a bug for TP.

[Anonymous]

TP is where aging ANC Commissioners move when they get older and finally realize density sucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TP is where aging ANC Commissioners move when they get older and finally realize density sucks.

+1 This made me lol because my former GGW in human form neighbor now lives there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of TP are upper middle class, liberal families who work regular jobs as feds, lawyers, academics, etc. Just normal people. However, the people that dominate city politics and have the tjme and energy to engage with the City Council are the older aging hippies who are sometimes ridiculous. But it’s not at all representative of the community as a whole.

Signed TP resident of 15 years

This is true and false. Those white collar families chose to live with the hippies because they enjoy it and mostly agree with them.

Nope. People live in TP because it is close-in, has good schools and nice neighborhoods. Signed, moderate (if not center-right) and very happy TP resident.

This is hilarious. Silver Spring exists.

Why? Silver Spring is very different from TP. Lots of reasons TP may be appealing regardless of politics.