Gorgeous gigantic town home in Gaithersburg for 1.5 M. Puzzled.
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Anonymous
Oh definitely a limousine liberal. A very cultured one.  
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Anonymous
Yep, you are right when you are right. Diversity is awesome as long as someone else participates in it! |
Anonymous
So, people only work in DC and Tysons/NoVa, for that matter? It is fine that you don't care for it, but just be honest why you are so stunned that people are paying that much to live in....Gaithersburg. I bet you have no issue with paying more than that for a house in Potomac, even though the commute is almost as long if not longer(no metro) from some parts? Is it that YOU don't understand that people with money might choose to live there?! Do you believe that MD is the richest state in the Union because of one tiny part of the population that works in DC and Tysons? 1. Maryland • Median household income: $80,776 • Population: 6,052,177 (19th highest) • 2017 unemployment rate: 4.1 percent (22nd lowest) • Poverty rate: 9.3 percent (2nd lowest) |
Anonymous
The Crown area is way less boring then McLean. First of all you walk everywhere, you have tons of stores and two malls nearby. You have tons of things to do for kids, all kinds of classes ofered everywhere. Movie Theathers and many nearby. Everything so close, within 5 to 10 minute drive. It is ideal for families and people who work in IT and Pharma nearby. Why would you suffer living closer to DC only because you can got to the museum once a week or once a month? You can hop on 270 and on and be in DC in 25 minutes with zero traffic on the weekends. You live in McLean, the only thing to do is go to the Mall. How exciting!!! Yey! You sit on the metro or in traffic for hours each day because you can get to DC and immerse yourself in the culutre so often? And you save on weekend traffic what?.. 5 minutes? Aha aha aha.. sure. Next time you walk your dog on a street in McLean or Bethesda wish you had a fab walkable communities nearby. Dream on. |
Anonymous
| There is a nice Lululemon there... would there be one if people can't afford it?! |
Anonymous
Try to take a couple of deep breadths so that some oxygen to your might allow you to get over your hysteria, righteous indignation, and fondness for straw men. I never said that everyone works in DC/NoVa. But lots of people do. And those people have a very legitimate non-racist reason to not want to live in Gaithersburg. The fact that many people do work in those areas significantly reduces the market of people who are looking to live in Gaithersburg, which obviously will hold down real estate prices -- a non-racist reason to question whether a $1.5M townhouse. That it is a townhouse -- not a single family home -- is also a reason to question their value. It isn't common for THs to sell for substantially more than most surrounding SFH -- again a non-racist reason to question the value of these properties. As for Potomac, I wouldn't want to live there either. But most areas of Potomac are a significantly easier commute than Gaithersburg. |
Anonymous
PP from “yeah but it’s in Gaithersburg” and I also feel disdain for Potomac |
Anonymous
What about Gaithersburg? Why you don't like it? |
Anonymous
$80k and rich in the same sentence
Nobody wins the lottery and says "yeah a beautiful reno in Kalorama or new build in Mclean would be nice, but I really to be in Gaithersburg". It's like Ashburn in the sense that you "choose" to live there if you can't afford the same standard of living closer in. No matter how hard you try to convince yourself Gaithersburg is not a coveted zip code. |
Anonymous
Sorry but no. I live very close to Crown in the Wootton district, and there is no way anyone would want GHS. People love QO and Wootton but anything in the Gaithersburg area not districted for either of those is awful. Crown is great but Rio is somewhat dumpy and ratchet. I bet most here don't know this but the Rio apartments go to a W-school - Wootton. |
Anonymous
| Most of the Gaithersburg general area is ganglandia. Only a small section(Kentlands and Lakelands) and the Darnestown area are wealthy and nice places to live, and the Crown area is a nice place to shop. Kentlands and Darnestown families are very similar to Bethesda or Potomac families(some are members of Congressional or Bethesda, kids drive new Jeeps and Benzs, etc), but even though that area is similar, anywhere else in Gaithersburg is so poor and horrible. That's why Gaithersburg has such a bad reputation, because the rest of the area brings it down even though there is a very nice part in the west/south. I'll guarantee you that anyone saying Gaithersburg is nice is talking about the western part of 20878 not anywhere near 355 or east of Great Seneca Highway(the border between nice and dumpy). People don't know about Darnestown/Kentlands/North Potomac because all anyone can think about is Gaithersburg as a whole and its reputation, but in reality this area is VERY different from the rest of the city. |
Anonymous
I don’t like driving on 270, nothing there feels old or special, it’s ugly and car-scaled. I prefer my neighborhood developers dead. I’m not a pioneer and I don’t want to live at someone’s mall even if it has a pond and a cookie store or whatever. I do like the county fair, that is a really good county fair you guys. Better than some state fairs imo. Definitely worth the drive. I also like Sugarloaf and Frederick. The key to the fair imo is to catch the demolition derby and to solemnly swear not to acquire a bunny before you arrive because otherwise you will be surprised that prize winning cute bunnies can be acquired for such a reasonable fee and you might make a Gaithersburg mistake. They should build townhomes at the fair maybe I would buy one idk though because there are a lot of teens sometimes doing tomfoolery I don’t even know if they are county residents or what but they are dressed like little harlots and I respect that but I don’t wanna be with them on the pirate ship necessarily if they are making out and taking selfies when it is at the top because it’s just a brief moment of weightlessness that feels like joy and can’t they just be present for it. What Gaithersburg has going for it is immigrants and also that one weird still-there farm that I think is there just because of one cranky lady? That is the best year-round thing about Gaithersburg besides immigrants. Also it’s easy to buy gas I guess because the roads are big and there’s usually a turn lane. |
Anonymous
No way, wishful thinking! |
Anonymous
It’s closer than you think. Sorry you think we’re poor, but we’re not. Average HHI is $155K in Kentlands (https://properties.kimcorealty.com/properties/1762/). Bethesda’s and Potomac’s avg HHI is $185K. |
Anonymous
You even admit that people are forced to live in Dc to be close to their jobs. Nobody wants to live in DC. You don't see people working in Ashburn commuting from DC. People prefer the burbs. Gaithersburg/Rio is an amazing neighborhood with jobs, good scoops and tons of amenities. You don't like gaithersburg schools because you think the school has illegals and blacks and that makes it unacceptable to you. It's pathetic. |