What comes to mind when you think of Montgomery County?

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Anonymous wrote:A has been place, grew up here live here and counting the days until i leave here and I grew up and live in Bethesda where it was once the best of the best schools, no crime, no entitled people and now it is all ruined

I agree the bitchy, crazy rich people have ruined Bethesda.

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Anonymous wrote:A has been place, grew up here live here and counting the days until i leave here and I grew up and live in Bethesda where it was once the best of the best schools, no crime, no entitled people and now it is all ruined

The whole country is like this. It's people not MC.

If you go south, which people think people are so much nicer they judge you and talk about you behind your back. No different than here. Suburbs outside of places like Raleigh and Charlotte people can be crazy mean.

Mid west maybe, but honestly it's more people are all over entitled jerks. Suburbs are suburbs, competitiveness is the same all over the country.

We can maybe all try to be a little nicer.

Hoping for that on this Sunny warmer day here in DC!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A has been place, grew up here live here and counting the days until i leave here and I grew up and live in Bethesda where it was once the best of the best schools, no crime, no entitled people and now it is all ruined

Feel the same way. We have been here for 20 years and can't stand living here. As soon as DC finishes school we are outa here

There were no entitled people in Bethesda back in the day?! Are you people serious?

Yes. We lived near all kinds of people. We all lived in the same-sized houses. I'm talking about people who owned car dealerships, dentists, correspondents, the head of the washington bureau of a major news outlet, scientists, a minister, a teacher, an instrument maker, diplomats -- everyone lived in normal-sized houses. People were normal. They were decent. They said excuse me when they needed to get by you instead of staring at the horizon line and waiting for their anger and hatred to penetrate through your skull and make you get out of their way. They said, "After you." "No, after you." instead of "you yield to the fastest car." People knew each other. We knew the people in every single house in our development. Every single one. It was unheard of to wash your hands of someone. People didn't go around saying others were users every time their lives overlapped. When my father died, one of our neighbors came over and vacuumed our house. No one said, "Why did you let them use you like that? They should have vacuumed their own house or paid a maid to do it" the way people on dcum regularly do.

Yeah, it was much better then.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A has been place, grew up here live here and counting the days until i leave here and I grew up and live in Bethesda where it was once the best of the best schools, no crime, no entitled people and now it is all ruined

The whole country is like this. It's people not MC.

If you go south, which people think people are so much nicer they judge you and talk about you behind your back. No different than here. Suburbs outside of places like Raleigh and Charlotte people can be crazy mean.

Mid west maybe, but honestly it's more people are all over entitled jerks. Suburbs are suburbs, competitiveness is the same all over the country.

We can maybe all try to be a little nicer.

Hoping for that on this Sunny warmer day here in DC!

I agree with you, PP. People are unkind everywhere now - it's not a MoCo problem, it's a much bigger issue.

I have family in MN, Twin Cities area. I used to visit there in the 90s and marvel at how nice the people were.

Now I visit and don't really see much of a difference between the people here and the Midwestern residents. They don't drive as aggressively but they're just as unfriendly.

[Anonymous]

What comes to mind re: MoCo? Pretentiousness. From the golf clubs, to the nimby’s, to the country chic, to the lawyers and politicians, to the anti-bridge folks.

[Anonymous]

Lots of green parks, libraries, rec centers, and farmers markets..Snobby bethesda-ites, awesome Asian food in Rockville.

[Anonymous]

Farm breweries.

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Anonymous wrote:What comes to mind re: MoCo? Pretentiousness. From the golf clubs, to the nimby’s, to the country chic, to the lawyers and politicians, to the anti-bridge folks.

That’s west county. Stay East county and upcounty for the cool folks.

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Development. Chinese food. Suburbs. Strip malls. Pupusas. All this comes to mind

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Anonymous wrote:What comes to mind re: MoCo? Pretentiousness. From the golf clubs, to the nimby’s, to the country chic, to the lawyers and politicians, to the anti-bridge folks.

That’s west county. Stay East county and upcounty for the cool folks.

This. East county has the farm breweries, the pupasas, farmers markets, craft markets, local stores like Roots and Country Boy Jr, and much friendlier people.

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Anonymous wrote:20 years ago, if someone said "Montgomery County" I would think "rich."

Today, I think "socialist."

I don't even live there, but this is what I think, and this is what the rest of the area thinks. You guys are like San Francisco without the tech industry, more like drab government employees who pretend to be woke. That's the reputation anyway.

I welcome differing opinions.

What exactly is socialist? Conservatives throw this term around all the time, but what specifically do you mean by it?

I moved here from Howard County and love the incredible library system. Is that system socialist? Because it’s spreading the wealth to people who cannot acquire as many books as me?

I love the robust public transit system. There’s nothing like it in Howard County. I can drop my car off for repairs and take the bus to work, and my day is not interrupted by trying to get a ride, or having my husband follow me the night before to do a night drop-off. Is that what you consider a socialist redistribution of wealth for those who cannot afford cars or cabs or uber?

Same with the schools and police and fire services. And amazing trash and recycling services, that don’t dump tons of crap into landfills.

So what “is” socialist? I ask that sincerely. New programs that you aren’t used to? Because it’s human nature to not like change very much?
Or is it more self-centered in that you don’t want the county to provide services that don’t primarily benefit you?

When you look at service delivery and infrastructure in terms of serving an entire population and not just the well-off, the quality of life here is much better than Howard. Howard County. YMMV if you are well off and solely looking at what meets your needs. But if you are trying to build, maintain, and improve an infrastructure that supports a wide range of different types of people, Montgomery County is doing a much better job.

1) Laws about literally EVERYTHING. No part of our life goes uncontrolled by the County Council.

2) Posturing about the latest woke fad de jour (well, not just posturing; see #1)

3) Taxing a smaller and smaller number of people to support expatriate El Salvador

4) Transportation planning by those from the "if we make it miserable enough, they'll stop driving" school

5) Diminishing quality of services, including most of the things that the PP above raves about. They just weren't here before when it was better

6) School administration by the magical thinking, "if we keep lowering the standards, maybe no one will notice and we can say we closed the gap" school

Unfortunately stuck here for six more years.

[Anonymous]

I worked with this absolutely wretched woman who was so proud to be from Montgomery County (for whatever bizarre reason). She was a feminist but was the type to talk smack and try to sabotage all other women.

Everyone loathes her.

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Dump trucks

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Anonymous wrote:When I think of Montgomery County, I used to think: well educated, liberal, good schools. Now I think of the right wing PR agency being paid to tear its reputation apart and get people to vote its leadership out of office.

Right wingers are so pathetic.

I am a Democrat who has lived in MoCo for most of my life. MoCo faces real problems, and they are not due to the tribe and its media outlets. MoCo's problems are due to my party being taken over by activists. MoCo's business community has grown very little in a decade, during a period of prosperity. When the economy turns south, and it will at some point, MoCo is screwed. I am beginning to vote Republican at the state level, and Democratic at the federal level. I voted for Hogan, and would do so again, even though I do not agree with everything he does. We need more radical moderates, not radicals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked with this absolutely wretched woman who was so proud to be from Montgomery County (for whatever bizarre reason). She was a feminist but was the type to talk smack and try to sabotage all other women.

Everyone loathes her.

? You have an opinion of a large county based on an interaction with one unpleasant person? If I have a negative interaction with a racist white person from the midwest or the south should I assume that every white person in the entire county where that person is from is racist and horrible?