North Potomac v. Gaithersburg - What is the Big Deal??

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Oh puuuleeease! The locals like to try to play know it all by pretending to not distinguish "what used to be" from "the here and now". They are living in the past and do NOT like change. It is true of many parts of NOVA that used to be rural, especially. Ignore, ignore, ignore the attitude. They need to get out of the equivalent of their mommy's basement. An area has a new name, get over it.

OP here - agree with your statement. It seems weird to fight an actual FACT. A city exists and you don't agree with its existence?? It is plain dumb.

I have no problem with calling it North Potomac, but still, I find it laughable that they chose North POTOMAC as the name. They couldn't come up with anything original, so tried to piggyback off the most affluent neighborhood around. It's like Hoboken calling itself South Manhattan.

Apples and Oranges. North Potomac has many million dollar homes and is a far cry from the slums. Comparing it to Hoboken is a stretch.

You obviously haven't been to Hoboken lately. It's actually quite the happening place now.

I laughed when I saw this, because a couple of years ago, I was going to a party in "North Potomac" and had a terrible time finding it, because my gps kept insisting that the address didn't exist. I finally thought to enter "Gaithersburg.". Bingo! Just realize that, with a zip code, the Post Office will deliver the mail if you write "North Pole" on it, that doesn't prove anything. But the GPS will find you out!

Has your GPS been updated? I don't think your gps is the end all - be all as far as zoning and mapping go. My street is two years old and it's not on our gps yet. Gps is based on satellites & the info isn't real time in most cases. My gps doesn't find North Bethesda but it exists!

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Oh puuuleeease! The locals like to try to play know it all by pretending to not distinguish "what used to be" from "the here and now". They are living in the past and do NOT like change. It is true of many parts of NOVA that used to be rural, especially. Ignore, ignore, ignore the attitude. They need to get out of the equivalent of their mommy's basement. An area has a new name, get over it.

OP here - agree with your statement. It seems weird to fight an actual FACT. A city exists and you don't agree with its existence?? It is plain dumb.

I have no problem with calling it North Potomac, but still, I find it laughable that they chose North POTOMAC as the name. They couldn't come up with anything original, so tried to piggyback off the most affluent neighborhood around. It's like Hoboken calling itself South Manhattan.

Apples and Oranges. North Potomac has many million dollar homes and is a far cry from the slums. Comparing it to Hoboken is a stretch.

You obviously haven't been to Hoboken lately. It's actually quite the happening place now.

I laughed when I saw this, because a couple of years ago, I was going to a party in "North Potomac" and had a terrible time finding it, because my gps kept insisting that the address didn't exist. I finally thought to enter "Gaithersburg.". Bingo! Just realize that, with a zip code, the Post Office will deliver the mail if you write "North Pole" on it, that doesn't prove anything. But the GPS will find you out!

Has your GPS been updated? I don't think your gps is the end all - be all as far as zoning and mapping go. My street is two years old and it's not on our gps yet. Gps is based on satellites & the info isn't real time in most cases. My gps doesn't find North Bethesda but it exists!

My point exactly. "North Potomac" is a recent construct of folks who don't want admit they live in Gaithersburg. Just like "North Bethesda" is a construct of folks who don't want to admit they live in Rockville. It's fine, but just don't pretend that's not what it is.

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N. Potomac = Bethesda and chevy chase?

Seriously? You are truly kidding yourselves.

We don't sit in traffic on 270 or 355 etc. on our daily commutes. That's why our land sans house is valued > than many N potomac homes. Location. Location. Location. Can't think of the last time wev went out to dinner in N Potomac either. Not saying there aren't nice and $$ homes, but not comparable.

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I don't know much about living in North Potomac. I have, however, lived in Gaithersburg in the Montgomery Village area. Cost of housing was very reasonable but the neighborhood was going downhill. I didn't feel safe there, and the schools made me uncomfortable. So if you are talking about Montgomery Village part of Gaithersburg, i don't recommend it at all.

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Oh puuuleeease! The locals like to try to play know it all by pretending to not distinguish "what used to be" from "the here and now". They are living in the past and do NOT like change. It is true of many parts of NOVA that used to be rural, especially. Ignore, ignore, ignore the attitude. They need to get out of the equivalent of their mommy's basement. An area has a new name, get over it.

OP here - agree with your statement. It seems weird to fight an actual FACT. A city exists and you don't agree with its existence?? It is plain dumb.

I have no problem with calling it North Potomac, but still, I find it laughable that they chose North POTOMAC as the name. They couldn't come up with anything original, so tried to piggyback off the most affluent neighborhood around. It's like Hoboken calling itself South Manhattan.

Apples and Oranges. North Potomac has many million dollar homes and is a far cry from the slums. Comparing it to Hoboken is a stretch.

You obviously haven't been to Hoboken lately. It's actually quite the happening place now.

I laughed when I saw this, because a couple of years ago, I was going to a party in "North Potomac" and had a terrible time finding it, because my gps kept insisting that the address didn't exist. I finally thought to enter "Gaithersburg.". Bingo! Just realize that, with a zip code, the Post Office will deliver the mail if you write "North Pole" on it, that doesn't prove anything. But the GPS will find you out!

Has your GPS been updated? I don't think your gps is the end all - be all as far as zoning and mapping go. My street is two years old and it's not on our gps yet. Gps is based on satellites & the info isn't real time in most cases. My gps doesn't find North Bethesda but it exists!

My point exactly. "North Potomac" is a recent construct of folks who don't want admit they live in Gaithersburg. Just like "North Bethesda" is a construct of folks who don't want to admit they live in Rockville. It's fine, but just don't pretend that's not what it is.

North Potomac is recent? I've lived in North Potomac since 1994 - and my neighbors since 1983. Perhaps YOU have no idea what you are talking about. The area around White Flint has been considered North Bethesda since I was in high school. It was made official once the convention center opened.

Cities morph, maps change... Take a look at a globe from 20 years ago. Tell me how many countries have changed names, merged, or vanished... Why do you think there is a ZONING BOARD, a branch of the post office to assign ZIP CODES, and people who MAP new developments/cities when they are built up?

[Anonymous]

The following is from the Wikipedia entry on Montgomery County (the gist of it is that the following neighborhoods, including "North Potomac" are the creation of Chambers of Commerce (Realtors) and have no official status). Note: being recognized by the Census Bureau doesn't make you a town or anything else, it just means that's what the Census Bureau calls that neighborhood. Yes, you live in an area that realtors or developers or whoever started calling "North Potomac" and it stuck. But it is really a neighborhood that encompasses parts of actual incorporated areas.

From Wiki:
Unincorporated areas are also considered as towns by many people and listed in many collections of towns, but they lack local government. Various organizations, such as the United States Census Bureau, the United States Postal Service, and local chambers of commerce, define the communities they wish to recognize differently, and since they are not incorporated, their boundaries have no official status outside the organizations in question. The Census Bureau recognizes the following census-designated places in the county:


Bethesda


Silver Spring


Silver Spring
Ashton-Sandy Spring (a combination of the communities of Ashton and Sandy Spring recognized as a unit by the Census Bureau)
Aspen Hill
Bethesda
Brookmont
Burtonsville
Cabin John
Calverton (This CDP is shared between Montgomery and Prince George's Counties.)
Chevy Chase (Note that this is also the name of an incorporated town)
Clarksburg
Cloverly
Colesville
Damascus
Darnestown
Fairland
Forest Glen
Friendship Village (This CDP includes the Village of Friendship Heights.)
Germantown
Glenmont
Hillandale (This CDP is shared between Montgomery and Prince George's Counties.)
Kemp Mill
Montgomery Village
North Bethesda
North Kensington
North Potomac
Olney
Potomac
Redland
Rossmoor
Silver Spring
South Kensington
Travilah
Wheaton-Glenmont (a combination of the communities of Wheaton and Glenmont recognized as a unit by the Census Bureau)
White Oak

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:N. Potomac = Bethesda and chevy chase?

Seriously? You are truly kidding yourselves.

We don't sit in traffic on 270 or 355 etc. on our daily commutes. That's why our land sans house is valued > than many N potomac homes. Location. Location. Location. Can't think of the last time wev went out to dinner in N Potomac either. Not saying there aren't nice and $$ homes, but not comparable.

I think what people are saying is that North Potomac WANTS to be potomac (or at least bethesda), hence the fancy name. That area could be called anything, but notice how they didn't choose South Gaithersburg. Doesn't sound as fancy or upscale. And they could also have taken on a new name, but instead, glommed onto the name of a more upscale area. And that's obnoxious. Same as North Bethesda.

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Anonymous wrote:N. Potomac = Bethesda and chevy chase?
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Seriously? You are truly kidding yourselves.

We don't sit in traffic on 270 or 355 etc. on our daily commutes. That's why our land sans house is valued > than many N potomac homes. Location. Location. Location. Can't think of the last time wev went out to dinner in N Potomac either. Not saying there aren't nice and $$ homes, but not comparable.

Trust me, if you live in Bethesda or Chevy Chase you're sitting in traffic as well. I don't buy that bs. Even if you live in DC you sit in traffic! And who uses a gps to determine if a place exists or not???? I can't even count how many times have I have punched in an address in my gps and the area allegedly "doesn't exist" even though it is actually there.

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Anonymous wrote:N. Potomac = Bethesda and chevy chase?
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Seriously? You are truly kidding yourselves.

We don't sit in traffic on 270 or 355 etc. on our daily commutes. That's why our land sans house is valued > than many N potomac homes. Location. Location. Location. Can't think of the last time wev went out to dinner in N Potomac either. Not saying there aren't nice and $$ homes, but not comparable.

Trust me, if you live in Bethesda or Chevy Chase you're sitting in traffic as well. I don't buy that bs. Even if you live in DC you sit in traffic! And who uses a gps to determine if a place exists or not???? I can't even count how many times have I have punched in an address in my gps and the area allegedly "doesn't exist" even though it is actually there.

With your reading comprehension problems, I'm not surprised. The point is, that the address existed, but in Gaithersburg, not the neighborhood of "North Potomac."

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton = Competing against child produced by Chinese Tiger Mothers.

too funny! spat out my coffee on that one.

I've heard it called Wonton High School. I thought that was hilarious! And, I'm married to an Asian man that's more of a Kitty Cat Daddy. I'd like a little more Tiger in his attitude toward the DC's!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:N. Potomac = Bethesda and chevy chase?
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Seriously? You are truly kidding yourselves.

We don't sit in traffic on 270 or 355 etc. on our daily commutes. That's why our land sans house is valued > than many N potomac homes. Location. Location. Location. Can't think of the last time wev went out to dinner in N Potomac either. Not saying there aren't nice and $$ homes, but not comparable.

Trust me, if you live in Bethesda or Chevy Chase you're sitting in traffic as well. I don't buy that bs. Even if you live in DC you sit in traffic! And who uses a gps to determine if a place exists or not???? I can't even count how many times have I have punched in an address in my gps and the area allegedly "doesn't exist" even though it is actually there.

With your reading comprehension problems, I'm not surprised. The point is, that the address existed, but in Gaithersburg, not the neighborhood of "North Potomac."

And MY point is that who cares whether your cheap ass outdated gps does not recognize that North Potomac exists??? In real life it does. Mmmkay????

[Anonymous]

This is what you call realtor creep. Realtors in DC seldom advertise a house in Glover Park; rather they call it "North Georgetown." Ditto Cleveland Park -- houses up beyond Van Ness started to be advertised as CP, leading some savvy sellers to distinguish their properties by saying "Cleveland Park Historic District." "North Cleveland Park" it seems can stretch all the way to Chevy Chase.

[Anonymous]

Realtor here with a brand new GPS as of Christmas. It did not find a house I had to show off Route 28 using Darnestown or North Potomac - I had to enter Gaithersburg.

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Anonymous wrote:Realtor here with a brand new GPS as of Christmas. It did not find a house I had to show off Route 28 using Darnestown or North Potomac - I had to enter Gaithersburg.

Gaithersburg isn't off of Route 28. If you knew anything about Montgomery County you would know that as would your outdated GPS.

Realtors do not brand cities... sorry. Montgomery County is FULL of unincorporated "towns", they are still considered towns or cities, not "neighborhoods. Germantown is a city, not a neighborhood. Bethesda is a city, not just a neighborhood. Potomac, as well as NORTH Potomac, CITY....

I would never ever ever hire you to help me purchase a home. You'd end up selling me White Flint Mall and trying to tell me it was in Kensington!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:N. Potomac = Bethesda and chevy chase?
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Seriously? You are truly kidding yourselves.

We don't sit in traffic on 270 or 355 etc. on our daily commutes. That's why our land sans house is valued > than many N potomac homes. Location. Location. Location. Can't think of the last time wev went out to dinner in N Potomac either. Not saying there aren't nice and $$ homes, but not comparable.

Trust me, if you live in Bethesda or Chevy Chase you're sitting in traffic as well. I don't buy that bs. Even if you live in DC you sit in traffic! And who uses a gps to determine if a place exists or not???? I can't even count how many times have I have punched in an address in my gps and the area allegedly "doesn't exist" even though it is actually there.

Nope. I live in Bethesda. Easy commutes for both DH and myself. Sorry to disappoint you! Dream on.