Bowie rocks! Why isn't it more popular?

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Bowie also has its own police force to supplement the County. All they do is drive around constantly to prevent property crime and provide a police presence. and the parks are phenomenal.

For the person that likes to ride metro, you can park at the park n ride and take a direct bus to metro or park at metro (10-15 min drive) and then metro in in 20-30 minutes. That's what I did and always got a seat, which was nice for work. The commute was equAl to my commute from MOnt Co. If I worked at capital hill or l'enfant, commute from Bowie would definitely be shorter.


That person wanted to WALK, not drive or drive and ride a bus to the metro.


There are arrears in DC which requires a drive or bus ride to the metro. Everybody can't live on top or within a half mile of the metro. More importantly, who can trust metro to get you to your destination on time.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Lanham is a real ghetto. Far worse than Bowie! Omg, you couldn't pay me live there!!


Such hyperbole. Me thinks you don't know much about ghettos. That's a good thing. But please stop talking about things you no not.

Signed,

Not a PG resident
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Bowie also has its own police force to supplement the County. All they do is drive around constantly to prevent property crime and provide a police presence. and the parks are phenomenal.

For the person that likes to ride metro, you can park at the park n ride and take a direct bus to metro or park at metro (10-15 min drive) and then metro in in 20-30 minutes. That's what I did and always got a seat, which was nice for work. The commute was equAl to my commute from MOnt Co. If I worked at capital hill or l'enfant, commute from Bowie would definitely be shorter.


That person wanted to WALK, not drive or drive and ride a bus to the metro.


There are arrears in DC which requires a drive or bus ride to the metro. Everybody can't live on top or within a half mile of the metro. More importantly, who can trust metro to get you to your destination on time.


Areas.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lanham is a real ghetto. Far worse than Bowie! Omg, you couldn't pay me live there!!


Such hyperbole. Me thinks you don't know much about ghettos. That's a good thing. But please stop talking about things you no not.

Signed,

Not a PG resident


me grew up in Lanham so me thinks me knows what me is talking about. get me?
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Bowie also has its own police force to supplement the County. All they do is drive around constantly to prevent property crime and provide a police presence. and the parks are phenomenal.

For the person that likes to ride metro, you can park at the park n ride and take a direct bus to metro or park at metro (10-15 min drive) and then metro in in 20-30 minutes. That's what I did and always got a seat, which was nice for work. The commute was equAl to my commute from MOnt Co. If I worked at capital hill or l'enfant, commute from Bowie would definitely be shorter.


That person wanted to WALK, not drive or drive and ride a bus to the metro.


There are arrears in DC which requires a drive or bus ride to the metro. Everybody can't live on top or within a half mile of the metro. More importantly, who can trust metro to get you to your destination on time.


Sure there are. I'm the PP who would be a natural fit for Bowie other than the commute, and being able to walk to Metro was important to *my family.* I recognize that other folks might have other priorities, but being within a mile of the Metro was one of ours. I'm not knocking anyone who has a different calculus, but OP posed a specific question. I answered it from my own perspective.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lanham is a real ghetto. Far worse than Bowie! Omg, you couldn't pay me live there!!


Such hyperbole. Me thinks you don't know much about ghettos. That's a good thing. But please stop talking about things you no not.

Signed,

Not a PG resident


me grew up in Lanham so me thinks me knows what me is talking about. get me?


I'm sure you've become very tough, growing up on the mean streets of Lanham. What, did a car with loud bass roll by your house once?

PP interested in Lanham, stick to the nicer looking neighborhoods (it's not hard to figure out). It's very convenient to shopping, New Carrolton metro, and the MARC train, depending on where you choose. I am white, I live here and I have never felt uncomfortable or gotten a bad vibe, not even once.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Oh, and to add, I guess that there is an insinuation here that it is hypocritical to live in a poor area but not send your children to public schools, and... that's really bizarre. I am willing to pay money for a better school experience just like the people all over the region, with smaller classes, less testing, language immersion, and aspects of character education and Christian education incorporated into the curriculum. Nonetheless it was a decision I agonized over quite a bit, until I decided it was worth it to try preschool and see if it was a good experience or go back to the public school. DH also very strongly preferred the Catholic school. But our neighbors' children have attended public school and I am very impressed at how poised and polite they are. I am making this area work for me and it is working very well.


It's not.

It is, however, hypocritical, to sing praises to your community and then spend money to isolate your child from the children of its members.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Oh, and to add, I guess that there is an insinuation here that it is hypocritical to live in a poor area but not send your children to public schools, and... that's really bizarre. I am willing to pay money for a better school experience just like the people all over the region, with smaller classes, less testing, language immersion, and aspects of character education and Christian education incorporated into the curriculum. Nonetheless it was a decision I agonized over quite a bit, until I decided it was worth it to try preschool and see if it was a good experience or go back to the public school. DH also very strongly preferred the Catholic school. But our neighbors' children have attended public school and I am very impressed at how poised and polite they are. I am making this area work for me and it is working very well.


It's not.

It is, however, hypocritical, to sing praises to your community and then spend money to isolate your child from the children of its members.


+1, especially when the song of those praises is full of implicit and explicit judgment of those who spend more money on real estate to live in a community where they do not need to consider alternatives to public schools.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:People aren't racist in Bowie like they are in Nova. I mean, look at the obnoxious people in this thread; it's ridiculous.


I grew up in Bowie in the 80s-90s. What you say might be true now, but absolutely was not true when I was growing up (and Bowie was about 90% white). Many of my friends' parents (and my own) said vile thing about other races, particularly black people (the "n word" was thrown around freely). Those people likely all fled when the demographics started to change, so it's probably correct that people in Bowie aren't racist these days.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People aren't racist in Bowie like they are in Nova. I mean, look at the obnoxious people in this thread; it's ridiculous.


I grew up in Bowie in the 80s-90s. What you say might be true now, but absolutely was not true when I was growing up (and Bowie was about 90% white). Many of my friends' parents (and my own) said vile thing about other races, particularly black people (the "n word" was thrown around freely). Those people likely all fled when the demographics started to change, so it's probably correct that people in Bowie aren't racist these days.


Why did Bowie stay majority white for so long? All of PG was ~90% white until they started busing in the early 70s...was Bowie not impacted by busing as much as the "Heights" areas?
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Oh, and to add, I guess that there is an insinuation here that it is hypocritical to live in a poor area but not send your children to public schools, and... that's really bizarre. I am willing to pay money for a better school experience just like the people all over the region, with smaller classes, less testing, language immersion, and aspects of character education and Christian education incorporated into the curriculum. Nonetheless it was a decision I agonized over quite a bit, until I decided it was worth it to try preschool and see if it was a good experience or go back to the public school. DH also very strongly preferred the Catholic school. But our neighbors' children have attended public school and I am very impressed at how poised and polite they are. I am making this area work for me and it is working very well.


It's not.

It is, however, hypocritical, to sing praises to your community and then spend money to isolate your child from the children of its members.


+1, especially when the song of those praises is full of implicit and explicit judgment of those who spend more money on real estate to live in a community where they do not need to consider alternatives to public schools.


Bullshit. This is the comment I was originally responding to:

Anonymous wrote:Because it's a small middle class section of a community that is surrounded by large pockets of working class/lower class people who don't have the same resources, and this can cause some stress and conflict. The more uniform people's lives are, the nicer the community. If you are living in chaos due to economics, you bring that into your community- and the higher functioning people have to just live with it.


The comment above mentions nothing about schools, only the "stress and conflict" and "chaos" that comes from living in a lower income area. And PG's median income is not even that low!! If your problem with PG County is schools, my point was that you can affordably work around that to suit your preference, and there is no "stress" living in the area. The vast majority of people I see on a day to day basis are middle class or working class and minding their own business. Nor is attending the neighborhood parochial school somehow "avoiding" the community. There are tons of Catholic schools in this county, and they're all serving middle class people in the community.

PG's stigma is not only about its schools, and it's not about crime, and it's not about the actual quality of life in the area. It's about race. But it's fine, because you guys are paying buttloads of money for buying into that bullshit stigma. Enjoy, but just know that I am paying less than you, for a nicer house than yours, and a better lifestyle, all because I don't mind living around black and hispanic people.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:It's not just the commute. It's bc black ppl live there and they can't take their homes and "change" the neighborhood the way they could in dc.


I actually don't have a problem with this. I enjoy living in a majority black community and am not sure why people are always trying to boost PG county to 'other's'.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Oh, and to add, I guess that there is an insinuation here that it is hypocritical to live in a poor area but not send your children to public schools, and... that's really bizarre. I am willing to pay money for a better school experience just like the people all over the region, with smaller classes, less testing, language immersion, and aspects of character education and Christian education incorporated into the curriculum. Nonetheless it was a decision I agonized over quite a bit, until I decided it was worth it to try preschool and see if it was a good experience or go back to the public school. DH also very strongly preferred the Catholic school. But our neighbors' children have attended public school and I am very impressed at how poised and polite they are. I am making this area work for me and it is working very well.


It's not.

It is, however, hypocritical, to sing praises to your community and then spend money to isolate your child from the children of its members.


+1, especially when the song of those praises is full of implicit and explicit judgment of those who spend more money on real estate to live in a community where they do not need to consider alternatives to public schools.


Bullshit. This is the comment I was originally responding to:

Anonymous wrote:Because it's a small middle class section of a community that is surrounded by large pockets of working class/lower class people who don't have the same resources, and this can cause some stress and conflict. The more uniform people's lives are, the nicer the community. If you are living in chaos due to economics, you bring that into your community- and the higher functioning people have to just live with it.


The comment above mentions nothing about schools, only the "stress and conflict" and "chaos" that comes from living in a lower income area. And PG's median income is not even that low!! If your problem with PG County is schools, my point was that you can affordably work around that to suit your preference, and there is no "stress" living in the area. The vast majority of people I see on a day to day basis are middle class or working class and minding their own business. Nor is attending the neighborhood parochial school somehow "avoiding" the community. There are tons of Catholic schools in this county, and they're all serving middle class people in the community.

PG's stigma is not only about its schools, and it's not about crime, and it's not about the actual quality of life in the area. It's about race. But it's fine, because you guys are paying buttloads of money for buying into that bullshit stigma. Enjoy, but just know that I am paying less than you, for a nicer house than yours, and a better lifestyle, all because I don't mind living around black and hispanic people.


Yes! It's amazing to hear the white relatives who come to visit and their comments on my neighborhood. Such raw prejudice:

"Your grocery store is a little run down."
Well, if by run down you mean has mostly black people.

"You must have a lot of crime here. I see bars on the windows."
Not really if you look at the stats. One neighbor decided they wanted bars.

PG has such little traffic compared to the rest of the region. Such a wonderful thing for those of us who live here.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Oh, and to add, I guess that there is an insinuation here that it is hypocritical to live in a poor area but not send your children to public schools, and... that's really bizarre. I am willing to pay money for a better school experience just like the people all over the region, with smaller classes, less testing, language immersion, and aspects of character education and Christian education incorporated into the curriculum. Nonetheless it was a decision I agonized over quite a bit, until I decided it was worth it to try preschool and see if it was a good experience or go back to the public school. DH also very strongly preferred the Catholic school. But our neighbors' children have attended public school and I am very impressed at how poised and polite they are. I am making this area work for me and it is working very well.


It's not.

It is, however, hypocritical, to sing praises to your community and then spend money to isolate your child from the children of its members.


Aren't those schools full of children from the community?
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People aren't racist in Bowie like they are in Nova. I mean, look at the obnoxious people in this thread; it's ridiculous.


I grew up in Bowie in the 80s-90s. What you say might be true now, but absolutely was not true when I was growing up (and Bowie was about 90% white). Many of my friends' parents (and my own) said vile thing about other races, particularly black people (the "n word" was thrown around freely). Those people likely all fled when the demographics started to change, so it's probably correct that people in Bowie aren't racist these days.


Old white racist Bowie still exists. New Bowie is black professionals
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