What could have been for MoCo and Maryland

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Anonymous wrote:my life in Bethesda has never been better. Downtown Bethesda is full of development..

Rockville is exploding with new development -- two new HS opening in the next few years; also see a few new developments for biotech firms being built. I see no slow down where I live.

One of those high schools is in North Bethesda, and the other one is in Gaithersburg. But I guess both of them are in the general Rockville area. This looks promising too: https://www.mymcmedia.org/elrich-umd-leaders-announce-new-research-institute-in-north-bethesda/

That’s just the county paying free rent for UMD to locate some jobs at Pike & Rose. If the county and state wanted to do something transformative, they should build a new UMD health sciences campus, including medical school, at White Flint.

There's no good news about Montgomery County that somebody on DCUM won't immediately explain is actually terrible news.

Tell me the good news! Another one bites the dust.

https://www.insidenova.com/news/business/amentum-services-moving-headquarters-from-maryland-to-fairfax/article_e724589e-b6b6-11ed-8ced-3f9a827ea3fa.html

Why on earth would any county executive let jobs like these walk out the door is beyond me. Doug Duncan - do you have a son or daughter?

I already shake my head every time I drive by the Clark sign in Tysons on 495. I wonder how long Lockheed is going to stay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Losing Amazon is the least of MoCos problems. I'm from there. It's gone downhill. I left. I'm sure it's great if you are rich in Chevy Chase, Potomac, or Bethesda, or way out in like Damascus it's alright, but otherwise not so great anymore. For more average folk, NOVA is so much nicer and schools are generally safer too.

Where did you go?

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Womp womp

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/03/amazon-hq2-construction-delay-arlington/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Womp womp

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/03/amazon-hq2-construction-delay-arlington/

Came here to type that verbatim.

[Anonymous]

Between massive layoffs and wfh, they don’t need the building.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Losing Amazon is the least of MoCos problems. I'm from there. It's gone downhill. I left. I'm sure it's great if you are rich in Chevy Chase, Potomac, or Bethesda, or way out in like Damascus it's alright, but otherwise not so great anymore. For more average folk, NOVA is so much nicer and schools are generally safer too.

Where did you go?

dp.. I'm in Rockville, and I have no issues with safety here. PP is funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Womp womp

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/03/amazon-hq2-construction-delay-arlington/

How awful. They already added 8,000 employees making six figures. In the mean time Montgomery County added no new jobs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Womp womp

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/03/amazon-hq2-construction-delay-arlington/

How awful. They already added 8,000 employees making six figures. In the mean time Montgomery County added no new jobs.

yea, MoCo has no job openings.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Womp womp

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/03/amazon-hq2-construction-delay-arlington/

Came here to type that verbatim.

No doubt this is ALSO Marc Elrich's fault and ALSO further demonstrates what a disaster Montgomery County is, because everything does, right? Montgomery County couldn't even get Amazon to take their money and run, and it's all the fault of the Hugo Chavez-loving Takoma Park cabal!!!!!!!1!!!1!!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Womp womp

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/03/amazon-hq2-construction-delay-arlington/

Came here to type that verbatim.

No doubt this is ALSO Marc Elrich's fault and ALSO further demonstrates what a disaster Montgomery County is, because everything does, right? Montgomery County couldn't even get Amazon to take their money and run, and it's all the fault of the Hugo Chavez-loving Takoma Park cabal!!!!!!!1!!!1!!!!

Yes it's the fault of MC that Amazon decided to halt construction.

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Anonymous wrote:Womp womp

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/03/amazon-hq2-construction-delay-arlington/

How awful. They already added 8,000 employees making six figures. In the mean time Montgomery County added no new jobs.

yea, MoCo has no job openings.

That is correct. There is no net new private sector job creation in Montgomery County.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Womp womp

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/03/amazon-hq2-construction-delay-arlington/

How awful. They already added 8,000 employees making six figures. In the mean time Montgomery County added no new jobs.

yea, MoCo has no job openings.

That is correct. There is no net new private sector job creation in Montgomery County.

But plenty of low paying MCPS para jobs…what a disaster. I drive by the former HQ of Celera Genomics on Gude and sure enough it’s yet another MCPS admin building. Viva Erlich! Viva Moco!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Womp womp

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/03/amazon-hq2-construction-delay-arlington/

How awful. They already added 8,000 employees making six figures. In the mean time Montgomery County added no new jobs.

yea, MoCo has no job openings.

That is correct. There is no net new private sector job creation in Montgomery County.

But plenty of low paying MCPS para jobs…what a disaster. I drive by the former HQ of Celera Genomics on Gude and sure enough it’s yet another MCPS admin building. Viva Erlich! Viva Moco!

It's former Governor Ehrlich's fault that Celera moved to California in 2008 after getting out of the genomics business?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Expect to read a lot of "I didn't want it anyway". Moco seems to be happy as a bedroom community to Virginia's jobs engine. Unfortunately, with the westward expansion of I66 and the Metro, further west cities are becoming more attractive.

Hell no, would never live in MoCo while working in VA with that terrible commute and 3.2% local income tax. Also I like being able to buy beer at the grocery store. You gotta to be insane to choose MoCo over nova these days

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop complaining and make it better or leave.

Not hard.

MOCO is a fantastic place we are very lucky to live here and not VA.

Our voters were not fooled by COX that fool and other Republicans. Virginians well they were stupid to vote in Youngkin.

Either way OP you don't like it here stop complaining and move. We don't want people like you here anyway.

Go MOCO

No good jobs, high taxes, ridiculous amount of regulations vs Virginia. During Covid while the rest of the area was letting people remove their masks, MoCo was the ONLY place forcing people to mask up. It was so strange coming to visit old friends and seeing all these virtue signaling moco sheeple with their masks on while everyone around them lives normally. MoCo is a dump thanks to all the psycho progressives who have steadily made it worse and worse