What comes to mind when you think of Montgomery County?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I think of MoCo, I think of the homeowner who was royally boned by the insane landlord-tenant laws there.
An elderly woman owned a nice home in Bethesda, and noticed that there was a homeless woman living in and roaming the neighborhood. After helping the homeless woman with food and small amounts of cash from time to time, the homeowner decided to let the homeless woman stay for a few days in her home. Within a very short time, the homeowner became alarmed at the behavior of the homeless woman, and felt threatened. So she told the homeless woman that she would have to leave. At this point, the homeless woman began to threaten the homeowner with bodily harm, so the homeowner called the police to have them remove the homeless woman. The police came and advised the homeowner that it was a civil matter, and that she would have to go to court and have the homeless woman evicted, since the homeless woman was considered a "tenant" under Maryland law. The homeowner protested, saying that she was afraid to go back into her house. The police suggested that she get a hotel room for the night, and to contact her lawyer in the morning.
The homeowner did not want to leave the homeless woman in her house alone, fearing damage or theft of her possessions, so she want back into the house, and the police left.
During the night, the homeowner was stabbed to death by the homeless woman.

Can you link to a news report about this case, please?

[Anonymous]

I think of a 1980’s John Travolta movie. Back when he was young and less weird. Back when he was in demand.

Now I see a place whose time has gone. There’s nothing wrong with that, places change. But I wouldn’t live there or send my kids to the schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think of a 1980’s John Travolta movie. Back when he was young and less weird. Back when he was in demand.

Now I see a place whose time has gone. There’s nothing wrong with that, places change. But I wouldn’t live there or send my kids to the schools.

Montgomery County is Look Who's Talking? How about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We just visited Potomac-dwelling friends. We hadn't seen them in forever. It struck me how poorly-maintained River Road is. All of the buildings and stores look like sets from Wonder Woman 1984. The Whole Foods parking lot looks like the lines were drawn for subcompacts. Everyone in the store seemed rushed and stony-faced.
Our friends' home has held on to its value from 1991. They've done a lot to it. I would live closer to downtown Bethesda but they like their space and the big yard. It sure does feels 1991 out there though.

Yeah, it's so nice. I hate all the tear-downs and mcmansions all over lower montgomery county but I guess that's $$ and progress.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think deterioration. I grew up here in 70s and 80s when there were several bars, clubs so you could go out, have fun, dance. There was a lot of diversity and I dont recall race being the big issue it is today. People got along. Schools were definitely better but part of that is that teachers had some power in the classroom, bad behavior was not tolerated and parents were stricter with kids and generally sided with the schools. There was more business, no one commuted to Virginia. One neighbor drove to DC and everyone thought that was rough. We lived in Wheaton. There were places to shop that catered to all incomes, much more open space and development was better thought out. We didnt have a gazillion retail stores, choices were less, but enough. We all lament the good old days, but its true, I would prefer my kids were growing up back then vs. today.[/quote]

MoCo was defacto segregated in the 1980s. There were not "race issues" back then from your perspective because you never really had to deal with a person of color as an equal. [/quote]

I lived in Wheaton. It was very diverse. Our neighbors on one side were black and in the other side were Koreans. We went to school with their kids, one worked for my dad when he was. between jobs.[/quote]

Wheaton is still amazing. You can get incredible food there. Lots of fantastic, genuine restaurants run by and frequented by the people from whatever country it is they're serving food from. I love Wheaton.

[Anonymous]

Curriculum 2.0. Nine years of GREED that took a once decent school district and put it in the trash.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think deterioration. I grew up here in 70s and 80s when there were several bars, clubs so you could go out, have fun, dance. There was a lot of diversity and I dont recall race being the big issue it is today. People got along. Schools were definitely better but part of that is that teachers had some power in the classroom, bad behavior was not tolerated and parents were stricter with kids and generally sided with the schools. There was more business, no one commuted to Virginia. One neighbor drove to DC and everyone thought that was rough. We lived in Wheaton. There were places to shop that catered to all incomes, much more open space and development was better thought out. We didnt have a gazillion retail stores, choices were less, but enough. We all lament the good old days, but its true, I would prefer my kids were growing up back then vs. today.[/quote]

MoCo was defacto segregated in the 1980s. There were not "race issues" back then from your perspective because you never really had to deal with a person of color as an equal. [/quote]

I lived in Wheaton. It was very diverse. Our neighbors on one side were black and in the other side were Koreans. We went to school with their kids, one worked for my dad when he was. between jobs.[/quote]

Wheaton is still amazing. You can get incredible food there. Lots of fantastic, genuine restaurants run by and frequented by the people from whatever country it is they're serving food from. I love Wheaton.[/quote]


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Wheaton is still amazing. You can get incredible food there. Lots of fantastic, genuine restaurants run by and frequented by the people from whatever country it is they're serving food from. I love Wheaton[/b]

[Anonymous]

Nervous liberal Prius drivers who would murder their bff if it meant their kid could get into Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curriculum 2.0. Nine years of GREED that took a once decent school district and put it in the trash.

Agree MCPS is total crap now and not just in the classroom. I was on the phone with someone in the offices of MCPS and at 4:00 she said, "Hello? Hello?" and hung up. When I called back the phone just rang and rang. Nice touch. I guess when it's time to go home, you just hang up on your constituents and leave. What crap service.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think of a 1980’s John Travolta movie. Back when he was young and less weird. Back when he was in demand.

Now I see a place whose time has gone. There’s nothing wrong with that, places change. But I wouldn’t live there or send my kids to the schools.

You don't go there, obviously. Living in Montgomery County is like living on a construction site. There is nonstop development. Personally I love the tiny pockets of 1980s housing and retail, but they are going fast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I think of MoCo, I think of the homeowner who was royally boned by the insane landlord-tenant laws there.
An elderly woman owned a nice home in Bethesda, and noticed that there was a homeless woman living in and roaming the neighborhood. After helping the homeless woman with food and small amounts of cash from time to time, the homeowner decided to let the homeless woman stay for a few days in her home. Within a very short time, the homeowner became alarmed at the behavior of the homeless woman, and felt threatened. So she told the homeless woman that she would have to leave. At this point, the homeless woman began to threaten the homeowner with bodily harm, so the homeowner called the police to have them remove the homeless woman. The police came and advised the homeowner that it was a civil matter, and that she would have to go to court and have the homeless woman evicted, since the homeless woman was considered a "tenant" under Maryland law. The homeowner protested, saying that she was afraid to go back into her house. The police suggested that she get a hotel room for the night, and to contact her lawyer in the morning.
The homeowner did not want to leave the homeless woman in her house alone, fearing damage or theft of her possessions, so she want back into the house, and the police left.
During the night, the homeowner was stabbed to death by the homeless woman.

Can you link to a news report about this case, please?

There is no link because it's a lie. Propaganda.

[Anonymous]

I only think of Chinese restaurants in Rockville, which we patronize, and Capital Cheesecake in Takoma Park, which we miss.

I’m sorry for not having a more nuanced view, but we don’t live there, so the internal politics don’t affect us directly, and only affect us indirectly insofar as there seem to be ever-increasing numbers of people from MoCo coming to NoVa to work and shop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curriculum 2.0. Nine years of GREED that took a once decent school district and put it in the trash.

+1 million to this

MCPS has so much potential to be a decent school district. Instead, the County has been stuck with ineffective leadership and a useless BOE, which has led to a trash school district.

[Anonymous]

Is it just me or does marc elrich look like a fat mikhail gorbachev?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curriculum 2.0. Nine years of GREED that took a once decent school district and put it in the trash.

To be fair, when 2.0 was developed, there were no off-the-shelf curricula they could purchase and adapt that met Common Core standards. They developed their own and did the best they could. It wasn’t greed because there was nothing to buy.