How the area has changed

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My experience of the area over the past 20 years: more jobs, more people, more diversity, more traffic congestion, and progressively higher COL.

Have lived in VA and MD for the past 20 years and I agree.

Will also add that there has been a marked decline in the school system, at least in MCPS.

Fair enough. I haven’t had direct experience with FCPS, but I’ve heard similar observations.

[Anonymous]

In the 80s-90s, the US overall was a very, very violent place. I mean I know a movie like RoboCop is satire/fiction, but many parts of the US actually did look like how they portrayed Detroit in that movie. Go back and image search photos of neighborhoods in NYC during the 80s and 90s. It looked like a bombed out Baghdad back in the day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was born and raised in montgomery county . When I was a kid you’d constantly see pickup trucks with shotgun racks. Not any more but crime is up

What part of the county were you raised in? I grew up in Chevy Chase, and don’t think I ever saw that. After college, I was pretty excited to go up 270 to Walmart for cheap stuff. Went there last month for the first time in maybe 15 years, and I was approached by there beggars asking for money before I even walked in the store. It was a weekday, and the place was packed. The bus stop was jammed. Yes, the county has changed, and not in a good way.

You're upset because there were lots of people at the Walmart at Milestone Germantown on a weekday, and there were lots of people at the bus stop next to the Walmart?

OK person who grew up in Chevy Chase.

Not upset, just shocked at how down trodden the area had become.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Crime is up since when exactly? Be specific. Here’s a chart of the last 42 years which pretty clearly shows that it’s down.
https://opendata.maryland.gov/widgets/7gn9-cnj3

This chart is shocking when you consider the population explosion in MoCo since 1974 (when the chart begins). In those years MoCo went from mostly rural (hence the pickup trucks with shotgun racks) to mostly urban/suburban.

I live in DC and drive a pickup with a shotgun rack.

Too bad you can’t put a shotgun in it. And if you ever got a gun in DC you have to register it and have a ballistics test. Because, you know, the criminals always register their firearms.

[Anonymous]

Well, Germantown is not Chevy Chase. Poorer people.have to live somewhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was born and raised in montgomery county . When I was a kid you’d constantly see pickup trucks with shotgun racks. Not any more but crime is up

What part of the county were you raised in? I grew up in Chevy Chase, and don’t think I ever saw that. After college, I was pretty excited to go up 270 to Walmart for cheap stuff. Went there last month for the first time in maybe 15 years, and I was approached by there beggars asking for money before I even walked in the store. It was a weekday, and the place was packed. The bus stop was jammed. Yes, the county has changed, and not in a good way.

You're upset because there were lots of people at the Walmart at Milestone Germantown on a weekday, and there were lots of people at the bus stop next to the Walmart?

OK person who grew up in Chevy Chase.

Not upset, just shocked at how down trodden the area had become.

"Downtrodden" - meaning people who shop at Walmart on a weekday, like you? Meaning non-white people who ride the bus?