Why is everyone in Takoma Park weird?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like good people.

who have never held a real job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I lived in TKPK for years. We moved out of state. The weirdest thing to me was always how obsessed people from Takoma Park are about living in Takoma Park. It is some weird superiority. They also all believe they live in some super diverse bubble but all the homes are now selling for well over 1M so.... a lot of white liberals who are delusional about what TKPK has become.

So where are the Millenial/Gen Z who would've been buying in Takoma Park 20-30 years ago currently buying/living?

Historic Greenbelt has some of the strangest people that I've seen in the DMV. There are a lot of Millenials/Gen Z's mixed in with the 70 something hippies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you new to the area? They don’t call it the People’s Republic of Takoma Park for nothing! It’s definitely the “crunchiest,” most left-leaning close-in suburb of DC. It’s attracted people like you describe for 2+ decades at least.

The median age is 41. That's OLD! so you are going to get cranky. https://www.point2homes.com/US/Neighborhood/MD/Takoma-Park-Demographics.html

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in TKPK for years. We moved out of state. The weirdest thing to me was always how obsessed people from Takoma Park are about living in Takoma Park. It is some weird superiority. They also all believe they live in some super diverse bubble but all the homes are now selling for well over 1M so.... a lot of white liberals who are delusional about what TKPK has become.

So where are the Millenial/Gen Z who would've been buying in Takoma Park 20-30 years ago currently buying/living?

Mt. Rainier

And Glenmont / Wheaton

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like good people.

who have never held a real job.

Then how do they buy $1 mil homes?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like good people.

who have never held a real job.

Then how do they buy $1 mil homes?

Trust fund

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like good people.

who have never held a real job.

Then how do they buy $1 mil homes?

Trust fund

Not usually in Takoma Park.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like good people.

who have never held a real job.

Then how do they buy $1 mil homes?

Trust fund

-OR-
You are totally full of hateful BS.

Gee I wonder which it is? Hundreds upon hundreds of million dollar homes all owned by people with Trust funds or maybe they actually do have jobs?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like good people.

who have never held a real job.

Then how do they buy $1 mil homes?

Trust fund

Not usually in Takoma Park.

Absolutely in Takoma Park. The majority of the activists/hippies remaining are trust fund kids. They don’t need to work, they are removed from reality and are looking for purpose.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like good people.

who have never held a real job.

Then how do they buy $1 mil homes?

Trust fund

Not usually in Takoma Park.

Absolutely in Takoma Park. The majority of the activists/hippies remaining are trust fund kids. They don’t need to work, they are removed from reality and are looking for purpose.

75-year-old trust fund "kids", if so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of TP are upper middle class, liberal families who work regular jobs as feds, lawyers, academics, etc. Just normal people. However, the people that dominate city politics and have the tjme and energy to engage with the City Council are the older aging hippies who are sometimes ridiculous. But it’s not at all representative of the community as a whole.

Signed TP resident of 15 years

This is true and false. Those white collar families chose to live with the hippies because they enjoy it and mostly agree with them.

Nope. People live in TP because it is close-in, has good schools and nice neighborhoods. Signed, moderate (if not center-right) and very happy TP resident.

This is hilarious. Silver Spring exists.

Exactly, I am one of those «  normal » upper middle class families and I def chose takoma park because of its leftist reputation, values/politics AND the old hippies. I love the vibe, the quirkiness, and find Takoma torch website hilarious. TKPK has a soul and is a unique little town. I hope it stays this way and people don’t come only for the convenience

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of TP are upper middle class, liberal families who work regular jobs as feds, lawyers, academics, etc. Just normal people. However, the people that dominate city politics and have the tjme and energy to engage with the City Council are the older aging hippies who are sometimes ridiculous. But it’s not at all representative of the community as a whole.

Signed TP resident of 15 years

This is true and false. Those white collar families chose to live with the hippies because they enjoy it and mostly agree with them.

Nope. People live in TP because it is close-in, has good schools and nice neighborhoods. Signed, moderate (if not center-right) and very happy TP resident.

This is hilarious. Silver Spring exists.

Exactly, I am one of those «  normal » upper middle class families and I def chose takoma park because of its leftist reputation, values/politics AND the old hippies. I love the vibe, the quirkiness, and find Takoma torch website hilarious. TKPK has a soul and is a unique little town. I hope it stays this way and people don’t come only for the convenience

People in Takoma Park word hard to keep their unique little town.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like good people.

who have never held a real job.

Then how do they buy $1 mil homes?

Trust fund

Not usually in Takoma Park.

Absolutely in Takoma Park. The majority of the activists/hippies remaining are trust fund kids. They don’t need to work, they are removed from reality and are looking for purpose.

75-year-old trust fund "kids", if so.

Right, kids (sons/daughters) of wealthy parents who have trust funds. Lots of them Takoma Park. They don’t need to work and can just be activists all day. They also don’t have a sense of reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of TP are upper middle class, liberal families who work regular jobs as feds, lawyers, academics, etc. Just normal people. However, the people that dominate city politics and have the tjme and energy to engage with the City Council are the older aging hippies who are sometimes ridiculous. But it’s not at all representative of the community as a whole.

Signed TP resident of 15 years

This is true and false. Those white collar families chose to live with the hippies because they enjoy it and mostly agree with them.

Nope. People live in TP because it is close-in, has good schools and nice neighborhoods. Signed, moderate (if not center-right) and very happy TP resident.

This is hilarious. Silver Spring exists.

Exactly, I am one of those «  normal » upper middle class families and I def chose takoma park because of its leftist reputation, values/politics AND the old hippies. I love the vibe, the quirkiness, and find Takoma torch website hilarious. TKPK has a soul and is a unique little town. I hope it stays this way and people don’t come only for the convenience

There’s you and there are others who don’t really care about the lefty vibe. It’s just a great place to live. Silver Spring is amorphous and generally dull, more suburban and much more disconnected from DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like good people.

who have never held a real job.

Then how do they buy $1 mil homes?

Trust fund

Not usually in Takoma Park.

Absolutely in Takoma Park. The majority of the activists/hippies remaining are trust fund kids. They don’t need to work, they are removed from reality and are looking for purpose.

75-year-old trust fund "kids", if so.

Right, kids (sons/daughters) of wealthy parents who have trust funds. Lots of them Takoma Park. They don’t need to work and can just be activists all day. They also don’t have a sense of reality.

I’m a 45 year old woman in a $1M+ Takoma park house. Neither my husband nor I have trust funds. We both have regular DC jobs, HHI is around $325k. Like most of the dozens and dozens of families we know in TP - we bought our first house in TP 15 years ago with a small down payment. We are solidly left leaning and chose TP bc of the its values and quirkiness. But nobody would call us, nor any of our friends “hippies.”