$1.2 MILLION in Bowie!? “SOLEIL AT BOWIE”

[Anonymous]

A white coworker lived in Bowie and his kids got a great education and went onto good colleges and solid jobs.

[Anonymous]

I would rent the nicest place with the shortest commute for a year while you explore the area. You have little kids and commutes suck here. It will give you more time with your kids and more time to learn the area.

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Posted this in wrong place

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Anonymous wrote:A white coworker lived in Bowie and his kids got a great education and went onto good colleges and solid jobs.

Wow, you mean white folks are allowed to buy in Bowie now?

What does race have to do with anything?

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Anonymous wrote:I appreciate this insight. I live in Crofton, and I love Bowie. Our church is in Bowie, we love Allen Pond, plenty of convenient shopping in Bowie, and of course it’s easy to hop on 50 and get to DC or Annapolis. It’s one of those things where I wish Bowie and Crofton both had better reputations, but then again it’s fine if people turn up their noses because we don’t want Bowie and Crofton overrun by snobby DCUM types who would ruin it!

Crofton, Gambrills, and Odenton already have very good reputations. Arundel HS and Crofton HS are some of the best school pyramids in AACo. There is a community similar to Soleil at Bowie in Gambrills off Underwood Rd called Ridings at North Branch, and it feeds to the new Crofton HS. But I think the homes there are more expensive ($1.1M-$1.7M). People are also paying $900k-$1M+ for those tiny new homes in Two Rivers in Odenton that almost touch the houses next to them.

Bowie is also a great area, and despite what people here are saying, the schools are not mediocre at all. There are plenty of high-performing elementary schools in Bowie, and the middle and high school are decent. Not the best, but also far from being the worst as well. People are slowly going to get jealous of Bowie, especially people living in the outer burbs.

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Anonymous wrote:And the three words that define Soleil's grace, luxury, and exclusive living- 'Prince George's County'

It's a very affluent area. It's the same as Olney or Columbia or wherever.

I grew up in Olney and it’s not affluent.

Olney is affluent now.

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Anonymous wrote:I appreciate this insight. I live in Crofton, and I love Bowie. Our church is in Bowie, we love Allen Pond, plenty of convenient shopping in Bowie, and of course it’s easy to hop on 50 and get to DC or Annapolis. It’s one of those things where I wish Bowie and Crofton both had better reputations, but then again it’s fine if people turn up their noses because we don’t want Bowie and Crofton overrun by snobby DCUM types who would ruin it!

Crofton, Gambrills, and Odenton already have very good reputations. Arundel HS and Crofton HS are some of the best school pyramids in AACo. There is a community similar to Soleil at Bowie in Gambrills off Underwood Rd called Ridings at North Branch, and it feeds to the new Crofton HS. But I think the homes there are more expensive ($1.1M-$1.7M). People are also paying $900k-$1M+ for those tiny new homes in Two Rivers in Odenton that almost touch the houses next to them.

Bowie is also a great area, and despite what people here are saying, the schools are not mediocre at all. There are plenty of high-performing elementary schools in Bowie, and the middle and high school are decent. Not the best, but also far from being the worst as well. People are slowly going to get jealous of Bowie, especially people living in the outer burbs.

What world do you live in? Schools in Bowie are terrible, particularly middle and high school. A few kids in our neighborhood went to public for elementary but everyone I know pulled there kids out for middle and high school. No one is going to be jealous. Bowie could be nice. It is a very poorly managed city.

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Anonymous wrote:Who is the builder? Have they broken ground. I tried looking it up and wasn’t able to find much. Something seems sketchy.

https://www.bandoinvestmentgroup.com/

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate this insight. I live in Crofton, and I love Bowie. Our church is in Bowie, we love Allen Pond, plenty of convenient shopping in Bowie, and of course it’s easy to hop on 50 and get to DC or Annapolis. It’s one of those things where I wish Bowie and Crofton both had better reputations, but then again it’s fine if people turn up their noses because we don’t want Bowie and Crofton overrun by snobby DCUM types who would ruin it!

Crofton, Gambrills, and Odenton already have very good reputations. Arundel HS and Crofton HS are some of the best school pyramids in AACo. There is a community similar to Soleil at Bowie in Gambrills off Underwood Rd called Ridings at North Branch, and it feeds to the new Crofton HS. But I think the homes there are more expensive ($1.1M-$1.7M). People are also paying $900k-$1M+ for those tiny new homes in Two Rivers in Odenton that almost touch the houses next to them.

Bowie is also a great area, and despite what people here are saying, the schools are not mediocre at all. There are plenty of high-performing elementary schools in Bowie, and the middle and high school are decent. Not the best, but also far from being the worst as well. People are slowly going to get jealous of Bowie, especially people living in the outer burbs.

What world do you live in? Schools in Bowie are terrible, particularly middle and high school. A few kids in our neighborhood went to public for elementary but everyone I know pulled there kids out for middle and high school. No one is going to be jealous. Bowie could be nice. It is a very poorly managed city.

You can’t blame the City for the county public schools. Bowie used to have exceptional, cost-conscious, service-oriented management. That has devolved to a more spendthrift and government orientation, but the fundamental services remain good.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate this insight. I live in Crofton, and I love Bowie. Our church is in Bowie, we love Allen Pond, plenty of convenient shopping in Bowie, and of course it’s easy to hop on 50 and get to DC or Annapolis. It’s one of those things where I wish Bowie and Crofton both had better reputations, but then again it’s fine if people turn up their noses because we don’t want Bowie and Crofton overrun by snobby DCUM types who would ruin it!

Crofton, Gambrills, and Odenton already have very good reputations. Arundel HS and Crofton HS are some of the best school pyramids in AACo. There is a community similar to Soleil at Bowie in Gambrills off Underwood Rd called Ridings at North Branch, and it feeds to the new Crofton HS. But I think the homes there are more expensive ($1.1M-$1.7M). People are also paying $900k-$1M+ for those tiny new homes in Two Rivers in Odenton that almost touch the houses next to them.

Bowie is also a great area, and despite what people here are saying, the schools are not mediocre at all. There are plenty of high-performing elementary schools in Bowie, and the middle and high school are decent. Not the best, but also far from being the worst as well. People are slowly going to get jealous of Bowie, especially people living in the outer burbs.

What world do you live in? Schools in Bowie are terrible, particularly middle and high school. A few kids in our neighborhood went to public for elementary but everyone I know pulled there kids out for middle and high school. No one is going to be jealous. Bowie could be nice. It is a very poorly managed city.

You can’t blame the City for the county public schools. Bowie used to have exceptional, cost-conscious, service-oriented management. That has devolved to a more spendthrift and government orientation, but the fundamental services remain good.

I didn’t blame them. I was simply responding to the prior post saying they’re “decent”. They’re not.
I don’t agree with anything you have asserted. The city government is terrible.

[Anonymous]

I'm reminded of Fairwood.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/01/25/in-fairwood-dreams-of-black-wealth-foundered-amid-the-mortgage-meltdown/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Farmhouse style is going to look sooooooooo dated in 10-15 years.

Y'all have been saying that for 10-15 years.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate this insight. I live in Crofton, and I love Bowie. Our church is in Bowie, we love Allen Pond, plenty of convenient shopping in Bowie, and of course it’s easy to hop on 50 and get to DC or Annapolis. It’s one of those things where I wish Bowie and Crofton both had better reputations, but then again it’s fine if people turn up their noses because we don’t want Bowie and Crofton overrun by snobby DCUM types who would ruin it!

Crofton, Gambrills, and Odenton already have very good reputations. Arundel HS and Crofton HS are some of the best school pyramids in AACo. There is a community similar to Soleil at Bowie in Gambrills off Underwood Rd called Ridings at North Branch, and it feeds to the new Crofton HS. But I think the homes there are more expensive ($1.1M-$1.7M). People are also paying $900k-$1M+ for those tiny new homes in Two Rivers in Odenton that almost touch the houses next to them.

Bowie is also a great area, and despite what people here are saying, the schools are not mediocre at all. There are plenty of high-performing elementary schools in Bowie, and the middle and high school are decent. Not the best, but also far from being the worst as well. People are slowly going to get jealous of Bowie, especially people living in the outer burbs.

What world do you live in? Schools in Bowie are terrible, particularly middle and high school. A few kids in our neighborhood went to public for elementary but everyone I know pulled there kids out for middle and high school. No one is going to be jealous. Bowie could be nice. It is a very poorly managed city.

You can’t blame the City for the county public schools. Bowie used to have exceptional, cost-conscious, service-oriented management. That has devolved to a more spendthrift and government orientation, but the fundamental services remain good.

I didn’t blame them. I was simply responding to the prior post saying they’re “decent”. They’re not.
I don’t agree with anything you have asserted. The city government is terrible.

If you’re talking about squandering millions cancelling ice rink contracts to build a gym instead, I’ll agree 100%. Other stuff the Council has done has also been ill-advised, financially and otherwise.

But the water flows, the trash and recycling go away, the snow gets moved, the roads get patched, rotten trees get removed and replaced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Farmhouse style is going to look sooooooooo dated in 10-15 years.

Agree - but then I think most house styles eventually look dated.

True, but these ones are on a whole new level.
50s ramblers, 70s split-levels, 1980s colonial revival (I live in one) all look dated.
But at least they look like homes. Once a house looks dated, they don’t become exponentially more dated as the years to on and at least I did not pay a “new house” premium to get mine. These modern farmhouses are a big mistake

I mean, someone paid a premium to get a new home when yours was built. Now they wouldn't.

I'm not a big fan of modern farmhouse, but it lends itself to options that, say, Dutch Farmhouse, does not. It also blends into existing neighborhoods fairly well, which isn't a concern here, however.

[Anonymous]

I actually LOVE the road that leads throughout the entire development -- is very reminiscent of cobblestone.