Montgomery County - What Happened?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I notice people are trashing the street with their trash in their cars. I've seen people throw beer cans and bottles out the window. Fast food boxes and bags. Almost every medium strip has trash laying in it. I 've seen tires laying on medium strips too. Where do these people come from that they do this?

They come from Virginia. I was in Virginia this past weekend, and saw this multiple times. Virginia plates every time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Giant grocery store tonight to do our weekly shopping. When I came outside a vagrant laying on the sidewalk with a sign saying you got any spare change. I said you picked the wrong location to ask for money. Everybody coming out this door has spent all their money. You need to hang out at a bank. I notice next door is a liquor store so maybe that's why he's here. He look like he been drinking all day and resting up against the glass wall. I didn't give him anything. But going back to what everyone is saying, drunks, drug addicts, and worthless bums are all over the place in Montgomery County. The county has turned into a dump.

I too see a lot of mentally challenged people hanging out at a Aspen Hill coffee shop I go to in the morning. A fat lady dancing out front asking for money she's high on something. You go inside and at the door another person looks like their on drugs sticks his hand out asked for spare change. I get my coffee and sit down check my emails and another person approaches me for money. I thought this was a relatively middle class neighborhood. So I avoided this place.

That's not crime though. None of that is illegal. It's a quality of life issue.

No one said it was crime. But it indicative of a decline in order and quality of living and is representative of how governmental decisions have consequences.

Not too long ago Aspen Hill was as expensive to live in as McLean. It is a perfect example of how far Montgomery County has fallen. Go to the Giant or Kohl’s shopping centers in Aspen Hill and then go the Giant off of Chain Bridge Rd in McLean and remember that the surrounding neighborhoods used to be just as expensive in the mid 1970s.

Aspen Hill: https://www.redfin.com/MD/Rockville/13911-Castaway-Dr-20853/home/11067141

McLean: https://www.redfin.com/VA/Mc-Lean/6535-Old-Chesterbrook-Rd-22101/home/9405275

That McLean home is updated but is 1,000 less sq ft and is on a through street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I notice people are trashing the street with their trash in their cars. I've seen people throw beer cans and bottles out the window. Fast food boxes and bags. Almost every medium strip has trash laying in it. I 've seen tires laying on medium strips too. Where do these people come from that they do this?

They come from Virginia. I was in Virginia this past weekend, and saw this multiple times. Virginia plates every time.

Take a drive on 495 and let me know which side of the American Legion Bridge has more trash, dilapidated infrastructure, and graffiti on the sound barriers. Be honest with yourself. You drive across the bridge to Maryland and you’re immediately greeted with graffiti on the sound barriers, twisted and rusted out guardrails, trees and shrubs that haven’t been trimmed in years that are more often than not blocking highway signs, and trash on the side of the roadway. The difference is striking.

[Anonymous]

I was in North Arlington this past weekend and stopped to get a drink from a 7-11 off Langston Blvd. There were two homeless people camped outside who begged me for money. Then I went to pump gas, and I got bugged again by a different homeless person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I notice people are trashing the street with their trash in their cars. I've seen people throw beer cans and bottles out the window. Fast food boxes and bags. Almost every medium strip has trash laying in it. I 've seen tires laying on medium strips too. Where do these people come from that they do this?

They come from Virginia. I was in Virginia this past weekend, and saw this multiple times. Virginia plates every time.

Take a drive on 495 and let me know which side of the American Legion Bridge has more trash, dilapidated infrastructure, and graffiti on the sound barriers. Be honest with yourself. You drive across the bridge to Maryland and you’re immediately greeted with graffiti on the sound barriers, twisted and rusted out guardrails, trees and shrubs that haven’t been trimmed in years that are more often than not blocking highway signs, and trash on the side of the roadway. The difference is striking.

Just listen to your fellow Virginians, who can tell you about the insane trash problem on Virginia roads and highways:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Virginia/comments/rrk584/roadside_trash/

[Anonymous]

Montgomery County puts 19 and 20 year old immigrants in junior high schools with 14 year olds.

[Anonymous]

I heard that too, they have illegal adults in with the high schoolers. Protect your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery County puts 19 and 20 year old immigrants in junior high schools with 14 year olds.

Yet again, you're actually describing Virginia:

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/03/16/dhs-asks-fairfax-county-sanctuary-politicians-not-release-illegal-alien-pedophile