Silver Spring versus Bethesda & Chevy Chase

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Anonymous wrote:I think Silver Spring is ghetto and I wouldn't live there but then again I grew up in the Whitman district.

Must be a kick in the ass to have to live in Rockville now that you are less successful than your parents.

Not the PP, but it's such a sad irony that so many people are MORE successful than their parents, but can't afford their childhood neighborhoods.
That said...hey, Rockville's looking pretty good these days.

Eh, I think you're seeing a restructuring. Plenty of young people are moving to new places, kind of making their own way. I doubt there are many 25 year olds that would want to live in Bethesda anyway, if we're being brutally honest...

Um, well yeah, because those 25 year olds don't have families yet. Let's see how they feel when they're 35 or 45 with school-age kids. I don't live in Bethesda myself, but I can't say that I wouldn't have at least considered it, had I been able to afford it.

Right. But the 25 year olds don't have families right now, that's the point. In 10 more years, with time in the job market, I'm sure a good portion of kids who grew up in the Whitman district will be able to afford it. That's one of the advantages of family wealth, as unfortunate and unfair as that may.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda and across the river just west is sort of the white Meca and Silver Spring and it's satellite DC areas is basically the Black Meca for the norther DC area. People of color are very protective of Silver Spring because it is where many minorities aspire to move after getting priced out of DC or in search of schools but unwilling to settle in PG. The AAs move to the two DC neighborhoods that border SS if they have money and silver spring if the are professional and PG or PW for just about everybody else. White People move to Bethesda/N Arlington because most minorities can't afford to live there and they get to mostly live void of poor people problems.

African American are defensive about it because it is as complete of a package nice "diverse" area as one gets in the DC area even though most of the nicest neighborhoods on the MD are mostly still white. Whites are defensive because people in downtown Silver Spring don't have to pay the "no black people tax" and get 90% as much neighborhood for 50-60% money so they try to act like the disparity is greater than it is to make them selves feel better.

Sorry I don't think the statistics back up that assertion. The disparity is fairly large, and the data shows that. Again, I think it's best not to use wishful thinking on this issue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think Silver Spring is ghetto and I wouldn't live there but then again I grew up in the Whitman district.

Must be a kick in the ass to have to live in Rockville now that you are less successful than your parents.

Not the PP, but it's such a sad irony that so many people are MORE successful than their parents, but can't afford their childhood neighborhoods.
That said...hey, Rockville's looking pretty good these days.

Eh, I think you're seeing a restructuring. Plenty of young people are moving to new places, kind of making their own way. I doubt there are many 25 year olds that would want to live in Bethesda anyway, if we're being brutally honest...

Um, well yeah, because those 25 year olds don't have families yet. Let's see how they feel when they're 35 or 45 with school-age kids. I don't live in Bethesda myself, but I can't say that I wouldn't have at least considered it, had I been able to afford it.

Right. But the 25 year olds don't have families right now, that's the point. In 10 more years, with time in the job market, I'm sure a good portion of kids who grew up in the Whitman district will be able to afford it. That's one of the advantages of family wealth, as unfortunate and unfair as that may.

I grew up in the BCC cluster and went to a private school in DC. I know tons of families who can't afford either, and we are way past 25.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think Silver Spring is ghetto and I wouldn't live there but then again I grew up in the Whitman district.

Must be a kick in the ass to have to live in Rockville now that you are less successful than your parents.

Not the PP, but it's such a sad irony that so many people are MORE successful than their parents, but can't afford their childhood neighborhoods.
That said...hey, Rockville's looking pretty good these days.

Eh, I think you're seeing a restructuring. Plenty of young people are moving to new places, kind of making their own way. I doubt there are many 25 year olds that would want to live in Bethesda anyway, if we're being brutally honest...

Um, well yeah, because those 25 year olds don't have families yet. Let's see how they feel when they're 35 or 45 with school-age kids. I don't live in Bethesda myself, but I can't say that I wouldn't have at least considered it, had I been able to afford it.

Right. But the 25 year olds don't have families right now, that's the point. In 10 more years, with time in the job market, I'm sure a good portion of kids who grew up in the Whitman district will be able to afford it. That's one of the advantages of family wealth, as unfortunate and unfair as that may.

I grew up in the BCC cluster and went to a private school in DC. I know tons of families who can't afford either, and we are way past 25.

How old are you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think Silver Spring is ghetto and I wouldn't live there but then again I grew up in the Whitman district.

Must be a kick in the ass to have to live in Rockville now that you are less successful than your parents.

Not the PP, but it's such a sad irony that so many people are MORE successful than their parents, but can't afford their childhood neighborhoods.
That said...hey, Rockville's looking pretty good these days.

Eh, I think you're seeing a restructuring. Plenty of young people are moving to new places, kind of making their own way. I doubt there are many 25 year olds that would want to live in Bethesda anyway, if we're being brutally honest...

Um, well yeah, because those 25 year olds don't have families yet. Let's see how they feel when they're 35 or 45 with school-age kids. I don't live in Bethesda myself, but I can't say that I wouldn't have at least considered it, had I been able to afford it.

Right. But the 25 year olds don't have families right now, that's the point. In 10 more years, with time in the job market, I'm sure a good portion of kids who grew up in the Whitman district will be able to afford it. That's one of the advantages of family wealth, as unfortunate and unfair as that may.

I grew up in the BCC cluster and went to a private school in DC. I know tons of families who can't afford either, and we are way past 25.

How old are you?

41.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think Silver Spring is ghetto and I wouldn't live there but then again I grew up in the Whitman district.

Must be a kick in the ass to have to live in Rockville now that you are less successful than your parents.

Not the PP, but it's such a sad irony that so many people are MORE successful than their parents, but can't afford their childhood neighborhoods.
That said...hey, Rockville's looking pretty good these days.

Eh, I think you're seeing a restructuring. Plenty of young people are moving to new places, kind of making their own way. I doubt there are many 25 year olds that would want to live in Bethesda anyway, if we're being brutally honest...

Um, well yeah, because those 25 year olds don't have families yet. Let's see how they feel when they're 35 or 45 with school-age kids. I don't live in Bethesda myself, but I can't say that I wouldn't have at least considered it, had I been able to afford it.

Right. But the 25 year olds don't have families right now, that's the point. In 10 more years, with time in the job market, I'm sure a good portion of kids who grew up in the Whitman district will be able to afford it. That's one of the advantages of family wealth, as unfortunate and unfair as that may.

I grew up in the BCC cluster and went to a private school in DC. I know tons of families who can't afford either, and we are way past 25.

How old are you?

41.

Sorry, i think at your age that is less due to the job market and more due to your own life choices. You are certainly not a millennial.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think Silver Spring is ghetto and I wouldn't live there but then again I grew up in the Whitman district.

Must be a kick in the ass to have to live in Rockville now that you are less successful than your parents.

Not the PP, but it's such a sad irony that so many people are MORE successful than their parents, but can't afford their childhood neighborhoods.
That said...hey, Rockville's looking pretty good these days.

Eh, I think you're seeing a restructuring. Plenty of young people are moving to new places, kind of making their own way. I doubt there are many 25 year olds that would want to live in Bethesda anyway, if we're being brutally honest...

Um, well yeah, because those 25 year olds don't have families yet. Let's see how they feel when they're 35 or 45 with school-age kids. I don't live in Bethesda myself, but I can't say that I wouldn't have at least considered it, had I been able to afford it.

Right. But the 25 year olds don't have families right now, that's the point. In 10 more years, with time in the job market, I'm sure a good portion of kids who grew up in the Whitman district will be able to afford it. That's one of the advantages of family wealth, as unfortunate and unfair as that may.

I grew up in the BCC cluster and went to a private school in DC. I know tons of families who can't afford either, and we are way past 25.

How old are you?

41.

Sorry, i think at your age that is less due to the job market and more due to your own life choices. You are certainly not a millennial.

I never said that I couldn't afford them. I live in the BCC cluster now, and will consider private school for my oldest when the time comes. I said I knew families who can't. Friends who I grew up with. And I never said I was a millennial. The PP was the first one who mentioned 25-year-olds, by saying that Whitman grads would be able to afford Bethesda in 10 years. I'm saying that there are a lot of Whitman and similar grads who have had those 10+ years in the job market, and still can't afford what their parents gave them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think Silver Spring is ghetto and I wouldn't live there but then again I grew up in the Whitman district.

Must be a kick in the ass to have to live in Rockville now that you are less successful than your parents.

Not the PP, but it's such a sad irony that so many people are MORE successful than their parents, but can't afford their childhood neighborhoods.
That said...hey, Rockville's looking pretty good these days.

Eh, I think you're seeing a restructuring. Plenty of young people are moving to new places, kind of making their own way. I doubt there are many 25 year olds that would want to live in Bethesda anyway, if we're being brutally honest...

Um, well yeah, because those 25 year olds don't have families yet. Let's see how they feel when they're 35 or 45 with school-age kids. I don't live in Bethesda myself, but I can't say that I wouldn't have at least considered it, had I been able to afford it.

Right. But the 25 year olds don't have families right now, that's the point. In 10 more years, with time in the job market, I'm sure a good portion of kids who grew up in the Whitman district will be able to afford it. That's one of the advantages of family wealth, as unfortunate and unfair as that may.

I grew up in the BCC cluster and went to a private school in DC. I know tons of families who can't afford either, and we are way past 25.

How old are you?

41.

Sorry, i think at your age that is less due to the job market and more due to your own life choices. You are certainly not a millennial.

I never said that I couldn't afford them. I live in the BCC cluster now, and will consider private school for my oldest when the time comes. I said I knew families who can't. Friends who I grew up with. And I never said I was a millennial. The PP was the first one who mentioned 25-year-olds, by saying that Whitman grads would be able to afford Bethesda in 10 years. I'm saying that there are a lot of Whitman and similar grads who have had those 10+ years in the job market, and still can't afford what their parents gave them.

Well, duh. But plenty of others who can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think Silver Spring is ghetto and I wouldn't live there but then again I grew up in the Whitman district.

Must be a kick in the ass to have to live in Rockville now that you are less successful than your parents.

Not the PP, but it's such a sad irony that so many people are MORE successful than their parents, but can't afford their childhood neighborhoods.
That said...hey, Rockville's looking pretty good these days.

Eh, I think you're seeing a restructuring. Plenty of young people are moving to new places, kind of making their own way. I doubt there are many 25 year olds that would want to live in Bethesda anyway, if we're being brutally honest...

Um, well yeah, because those 25 year olds don't have families yet. Let's see how they feel when they're 35 or 45 with school-age kids. I don't live in Bethesda myself, but I can't say that I wouldn't have at least considered it, had I been able to afford it.

Right. But the 25 year olds don't have families right now, that's the point. In 10 more years, with time in the job market, I'm sure a good portion of kids who grew up in the Whitman district will be able to afford it. That's one of the advantages of family wealth, as unfortunate and unfair as that may.

The point I'm trying to make is that one didn't have to have family wealth or an incredibly lucrative job to live in Bethesda 30 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think Silver Spring is ghetto and I wouldn't live there but then again I grew up in the Whitman district.

Must be a kick in the ass to have to live in Rockville now that you are less successful than your parents.

Not the PP, but it's such a sad irony that so many people are MORE successful than their parents, but can't afford their childhood neighborhoods.
That said...hey, Rockville's looking pretty good these days.

Eh, I think you're seeing a restructuring. Plenty of young people are moving to new places, kind of making their own way. I doubt there are many 25 year olds that would want to live in Bethesda anyway, if we're being brutally honest...

Um, well yeah, because those 25 year olds don't have families yet. Let's see how they feel when they're 35 or 45 with school-age kids. I don't live in Bethesda myself, but I can't say that I wouldn't have at least considered it, had I been able to afford it.

Right. But the 25 year olds don't have families right now, that's the point. In 10 more years, with time in the job market, I'm sure a good portion of kids who grew up in the Whitman district will be able to afford it. That's one of the advantages of family wealth, as unfortunate and unfair as that may.

The point I'm trying to make is that one didn't have to have family wealth or an incredibly lucrative job to live in Bethesda 30 years ago.

Yeah, but 10 years ago, 15 years, 20 years. Maybe not to this extent, but it was always a wealthy area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda and across the river just west is sort of the white Meca and Silver Spring and it's satellite DC areas is basically the Black Meca for the norther DC area. People of color are very protective of Silver Spring because it is where many minorities aspire to move after getting priced out of DC or in search of schools but unwilling to settle in PG. The AAs move to the two DC neighborhoods that border SS if they have money and silver spring if the are professional and PG or PW for just about everybody else. White People move to Bethesda/N Arlington because most minorities can't afford to live there and they get to mostly live void of poor people problems.

African American are defensive about it because it is as complete of a package nice "diverse" area as one gets in the DC area even though most of the nicest neighborhoods on the MD are mostly still white. Whites are defensive because people in downtown Silver Spring don't have to pay the "no black people tax" and get 90% as much neighborhood for 50-60% money so they try to act like the disparity is greater than it is to make them selves feel better.

Ew...this just all sounds so...gross. I get that there's probably some truth to it, but...yuck.

Let me tell you where it's awesome -- tons of diversity AND higher rated schools AND affordable homes: RM cluster in Rockville. But don't come here...we're overcrowded in the schools as it is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bethesda and across the river just west is sort of the white Meca and Silver Spring and it's satellite DC areas is basically the Black Meca for the norther DC area. People of color are very protective of Silver Spring because it is where many minorities aspire to move after getting priced out of DC or in search of schools but unwilling to settle in PG. The AAs move to the two DC neighborhoods that border SS if they have money and silver spring if the are professional and PG or PW for just about everybody else. White People move to Bethesda/N Arlington because most minorities can't afford to live there and they get to mostly live void of poor people problems.

African American are defensive about it because it is as complete of a package nice "diverse" area as one gets in the DC area even though most of the nicest neighborhoods on the MD are mostly still white. Whites are defensive because people in downtown Silver Spring don't have to pay the "no black people tax" and get 90% as much neighborhood for 50-60% money so they try to act like the disparity is greater than it is to make them selves feel better.

Ew...this just all sounds so...gross. I get that there's probably some truth to it, but...yuck.

Let me tell you where it's awesome -- tons of diversity AND higher rated schools AND affordable homes: RM cluster in Rockville. But don't come here...we're overcrowded in the schools as it is.

It's ok. No one wants to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda and across the river just west is sort of the white Meca and Silver Spring and it's satellite DC areas is basically the Black Meca for the norther DC area. People of color are very protective of Silver Spring because it is where many minorities aspire to move after getting priced out of DC or in search of schools but unwilling to settle in PG. The AAs move to the two DC neighborhoods that border SS if they have money and silver spring if the are professional and PG or PW for just about everybody else. White People move to Bethesda/N Arlington because most minorities can't afford to live there and they get to mostly live void of poor people problems.

African American are defensive about it because it is as complete of a package nice "diverse" area as one gets in the DC area even though most of the nicest neighborhoods on the MD are mostly still white. Whites are defensive because people in downtown Silver Spring don't have to pay the "no black people tax" and get 90% as much neighborhood for 50-60% money so they try to act like the disparity is greater than it is to make them selves feel better.

Ew...this just all sounds so...gross. I get that there's probably some truth to it, but...yuck.

Let me tell you where it's awesome -- tons of diversity AND higher rated schools AND affordable homes: RM cluster in Rockville. But don't come here...we're overcrowded in the schools as it is.

It's ok. No one wants to.

Good, enjoy your segregation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda and across the river just west is sort of the white Meca and Silver Spring and it's satellite DC areas is basically the Black Meca for the norther DC area. People of color are very protective of Silver Spring because it is where many minorities aspire to move after getting priced out of DC or in search of schools but unwilling to settle in PG. The AAs move to the two DC neighborhoods that border SS if they have money and silver spring if the are professional and PG or PW for just about everybody else. White People move to Bethesda/N Arlington because most minorities can't afford to live there and they get to mostly live void of poor people problems.

African American are defensive about it because it is as complete of a package nice "diverse" area as one gets in the DC area even though most of the nicest neighborhoods on the MD are mostly still white. Whites are defensive because people in downtown Silver Spring don't have to pay the "no black people tax" and get 90% as much neighborhood for 50-60% money so they try to act like the disparity is greater than it is to make them selves feel better.

Ew...this just all sounds so...gross. I get that there's probably some truth to it, but...yuck.

Let me tell you where it's awesome -- tons of diversity AND higher rated schools AND affordable homes: RM cluster in Rockville. But don't come here...we're overcrowded in the schools as it is.

It's ok. No one wants to.

Good, enjoy your segregation.

I sure will

[Anonymous]

Much more difficult resale in SS than in other areas mentioned.