Looking to Move Back to Montgomery County....need help.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm looking for a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment. Currently living in a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom condo. Really wanting a 2nd bathroom to have my own space lol. My budget is no more than $1900-2000 a month. Newer kitchen. I looked at the new apartments in Laurel off of Konterra but I wasn't to sure about the schools. Vansville I believe and Bond Mill.

Bond Mill is an excellent ES that has typically scored higher on standardized scores (e.g. greatschool ratings) than nearby ES schools in Burtonsville, Wheaton and northern Silver Spring. It feeds into Martin Luther King Jr Middle School, another good, solid school. The Konterra properties should be zoned for Bond Mill. I live in the neighborhood near the hospital east of Van Dusen and that area is zoned for Vansville which is good, but as good as Bond Mill. The real weakness is that there is no good high school so unless your child test into the magnet program at Eleanor Roosevelt HS, you have an issue then.

However, I personally think that you'll do better living in Laurel in the Bond Mill and Vansville school zones than you will be at the Burtonsville schools. If you are going to look in the Burtonsville area, make sure to look for places west of US-29 and not east. The area east of US-29 (especially from around Greencastle to Briggs Chaney to Fairland) has signicantly higher crime rates annually than West Laurel or West Burtonsville. You want to be careful around those areas.

If looking in West Laurel, the Windsor at Contee Crossing is a nice community and easy walking distance to the shopping center at Contee and US-1.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I will be looking to rent. My current condo is going to be sold through a short sale due to the amount I paid for it is no longer what it is valued for and the neighborhood it is in has also declined greatly.

I heard the part of the area where I grew up is not that great anymore. I went to Watkins Mills cluster schools.

I teach in Burtonsville so way down county.

What about Burtonsville?

I don't really like the apartment choices. Also not a fan of living in the same neighborhood as my students. Before I left teaching in PGCPS I lived in the same neighborhood as my students and I was constantly bombarded by parents & students asking me questions about school. I like to leave work at work.

Too bad, I'm also a single mother with a kindergarten daughter renting an apartment in Burtonsville. I would love to make a single mom friend in Burtonsville.

How is the apartment in Burtonsville?

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And the school your daughter is attending?

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks. I'm seeing a lot of nice places to live in Rockville. I'll definitely look into the schools too.

Rockville schools are strong, particularly the ones that feed into RM and Wootton. I don't know much about the other clusters in Rockville. I did hear that Rockville HS is one of the few that's not overcrowded, which may be appealing.

But the Wootton cluster is NOT diverse, at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I think you'll find stuff feeding into College Gardens and Beall ES. Both great schools.

I actually think that rent will get you into a Bethesda/Potomac pyramid too, if the location works for you.

Um, no.. OP wants diversity.

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She teaches in Burtonsville so ideally should be in that surrounding area, not Rockville.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks. I'm seeing a lot of nice places to live in Rockville. I'll definitely look into the schools too.

Rockville schools are strong, particularly the ones that feed into RM and Wootton. I don't know much about the other clusters in Rockville. I did hear that Rockville HS is one of the few that's not overcrowded, which may be appealing.

But the Wootton cluster is NOT diverse, at all.

Well, it is diverse in some ways. But not in other ways.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I will be looking to rent. My current condo is going to be sold through a short sale due to the amount I paid for it is no longer what it is valued for and the neighborhood it is in has also declined greatly.

I heard the part of the area where I grew up is not that great anymore. I went to Watkins Mills cluster schools.

I teach in Burtonsville so way down county.

Burtonsville is more northeast county than down country. I would look into Rockville, Olney, Silver Spring. Even the Rio/Crown area near Gaithersburg since you can take the ICC right to work.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I will be looking to rent. My current condo is going to be sold through a short sale due to the amount I paid for it is no longer what it is valued for and the neighborhood it is in has also declined greatly.

I heard the part of the area where I grew up is not that great anymore. I went to Watkins Mills cluster schools.

I teach in Burtonsville so way down county.

Burtonsville is more northeast county than down country. I would look into Rockville, Olney, Silver Spring. Even the Rio/Crown area near Gaithersburg since you can take the ICC right to work.

You can rent townhousesnoff story dr and school dr for less than her $1900 budget

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You probably know this already from teaching at Burtonsville, but just avoid Greencastle.

There are plenty of rentals off Spartan Road in Olney that feed into Brooke Grove Elementary School/Farquhar Middle School/Sherwood HS

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Burtonsville is more northeast county than down country. I would look into Rockville, Olney, Silver Spring. Even the Rio/Crown area near Gaithersburg since you can take the ICC right to work.

The ICC? How much would that cost, every day?

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Anonymous wrote:She teaches in Burtonsville so ideally should be in that surrounding area, not Rockville.

Rockville by Flower Valley area is extremely close to Burtonsville. Less than a 20min drive. Personally, I wouldn't want to be that close to my students and their families anyway.

I think Rockville HS district would be a nice area.

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Burtonsville is more northeast county than down country. I would look into Rockville, Olney, Silver Spring. Even the Rio/Crown area near Gaithersburg since you can take the ICC right to work.

The ICC? How much would that cost, every day?

A lot less than sitting on 270 and/or the beltway to get to and from work.

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Anonymous wrote:I like Rockville area - diverse ethnically and SES.

I live in Rockville (RM cluster) and our ES has several biracial children.

Wow. Several biracial children. Such a rainbow of the human experience.

Good god, the snark.

Are you aware that for the vast majority of human history people of different tribes were prone to consuming each other?

It may not meet your smug utopian ideal, but a school with multiple biracial children is indeed progress, albeit of an incremental sort.

In short, get some perspective (and don't be such an ass).

I think the point is that OP asked about an area with diversity, and your answer was a school with a handful of token half-Black kids. That's not diversity.

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Anonymous wrote:I like Rockville area - diverse ethnically and SES.

I live in Rockville (RM cluster) and our ES has several biracial children.

Wow. Several biracial children. Such a rainbow of the human experience.

Good god, the snark.

Are you aware that for the vast majority of human history people of different tribes were prone to consuming each other?

It may not meet your smug utopian ideal, but a school with multiple biracial children is indeed progress, albeit of an incremental sort.

In short, get some perspective (and don't be such an ass).

I think the point is that OP asked about an area with diversity, and your answer was a school with a handful of token half-Black kids. That's not diversity.

You must be an idiot! RM has diversity, with roughly 25% of the population each white, black, asian, and hispanic. That's not a handful of half-black kids. Go away and stop trolling.