woodside in silver spring

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any feedback on the woodside area of Silver Spring (Woodside, North Woodside, Woodside Park)? Is this a nice area to live in? What's the general vibe?

Yes, a very nice area to live in. Schools are above average for eastern MoCo. The 16th St section that bisects it is always very busy and has an odd mix of retailers. But Snider's is a nice neighborhood grocery store and Goldbergs Bagels are terrific.

I wish Goldbergs were open on Saturdays. Maybe hire non Jews for that day?

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Anonymous wrote:There is a reason those cute houses are affordable. It is next to a depressing clusterF of a commercial corridor on Georgia between 16th St and the Beltway that has been going downhill for a while with no redevelopment prospects in sight, which peaked when Armand’s and Woodside Diner were open. Now you can leave your charming pre-WW2 colonial to a check cashing store and an Aldi where you’ll rush back to your car to avoid homeless people trailing you for the quarter in your shopping cart under the shadows of a charming water tower lined with cellphone towers.

Is this like traveling down Langston Blvd in North Arlington with the endless gas stations, the multiple vape stores, the multiple 7-11s (with homeless people outside each and every one), the shuttered Walgreens and Giant, and yes, even a checking cashing and pawn shop?

BTW, in the same shopping center where Armands used to be there, there's now a highly acclaimed restaurant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/09/19/lime-cilantro-restaurant-review-silver-spring/

Those Woodside homes would sell for 30-50% more in that area though, so I don’t see your point. You can’t fool the market. If you’re trying to compare the Yorktown school district and North Arlington in general to Woodside you’re going to be fighting a losing battle. How’s that pedestrian tunnel under Georgia Ave at Forest Glen going?

OK, if you're point is that people can spend 30-50% more to live in the hellscape that is Nova, or they can choose a lovely place like woodside and save hundreds of thousands of dollars, then we're in agreement.

Living in a place where you don’t have to worry as much about getting murdered in a parking garage or robbed or raped is not synonymous with living in a hellscape. Arlington had 2 murders in 2022 and 2023. MoCo had 21 in 2022 and 29 in 2023 and its population is only four times bigger than Arlington’s. North Arlington near Langston is one of the safest parts of Arlington. Silver Spring is one of the most dangerous parts of MoCo.

Prices reflect this. You are not getting a deal in Woodside. You’re paying to living in a charming house in an undesirable area.

And where do you live that is so superior?

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Anonymous wrote:There is a reason those cute houses are affordable. It is next to a depressing clusterF of a commercial corridor on Georgia between 16th St and the Beltway that has been going downhill for a while with no redevelopment prospects in sight, which peaked when Armand’s and Woodside Diner were open. Now you can leave your charming pre-WW2 colonial to a check cashing store and an Aldi where you’ll rush back to your car to avoid homeless people trailing you for the quarter in your shopping cart under the shadows of a charming water tower lined with cellphone towers.

Is this like traveling down Langston Blvd in North Arlington with the endless gas stations, the multiple vape stores, the multiple 7-11s (with homeless people outside each and every one), the shuttered Walgreens and Giant, and yes, even a checking cashing and pawn shop?

BTW, in the same shopping center where Armands used to be there, there's now a highly acclaimed restaurant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/09/19/lime-cilantro-restaurant-review-silver-spring/

Those Woodside homes would sell for 30-50% more in that area though, so I don’t see your point. You can’t fool the market. If you’re trying to compare the Yorktown school district and North Arlington in general to Woodside you’re going to be fighting a losing battle. How’s that pedestrian tunnel under Georgia Ave at Forest Glen going?

OK, if you're point is that people can spend 30-50% more to live in the hellscape that is Nova, or they can choose a lovely place like woodside and save hundreds of thousands of dollars, then we're in agreement.

That hellscape is Lyon village if you venture just south of Langston and the houses are more like 100-300% more. I doubt there are any “rich” people in silver spring.

You sound insufferable. Enjoy hanging out with your "rich" friends in McLean or North Arlington. Your attitude solidifies why I would never want to live in those places.

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Anonymous wrote:McLean has more liberals. Look at a democrat map between NoVa and MoCo and I can prove your point. I can surely believe that it will prove the point.

NoVa troll, it took you a while but you're back. Here we go again with derailing a MoCo thread with irrelevant nonsense about McLean.

Good god, do you call anyone who mentions NoVa a troll?

DP but what does a thread about an area in Silver Spring have to do with McLean or NoVa?
Perfect definition of troll.