People’s Republic of Montgomery County

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Anonymous wrote:OP — I’d be more willing to listen if you weren’t so over the top. Tone it down and try again, and you might convince more people.

OK then let me calm down and try again. This is why MoCo is failing:

- Council supports crony capitalism for developer donors
- Executive doesn’t appear to support private sector at all
- Council supports meaningless social justice initiatives
- Executive has bombastic history of leftist rhetoric and associations
- Executive favors insider supporters over regular constituents
- Like other leftist regimes, when you tax and “social justice” your tax base to oblivion, they leave.

Got it?

Is this like the anarchy in Portland, or New York City emptying out? And then you go to Portland and almost all of the streets are as orderly as ever, or you go to New York City and there are still millions of people living there?

Montgomery County isn't paradise on earth, to be sure, but the only people who believe Montgomery County is failing are people who wish it were still 1975 in Montgomery County. Or maybe 1955.

Not true. Wasn’t even born then. I’ll take MoCo circa 2000, thank you very much. I did not worry about walking in my neighborhood alone at night. The schools were not overcrowded. Teachers had time to focus on even the kids who will be “fine.” Taxes were lower. Great bike trail through Bethesda. Shall I go on?

I would take MoCo 2010 over what we have today. I've never seen such rapid decline.

Me too. Montgomery County and MCPS have definitely declined over the past 10-12 years. We have had kids in the school system and have seen the changes from the oldest to the youngest. Have lived in MoCo for 15 years and it is definitely not as great a place to raise a family as it used to be, unfortunately.

Well the majority of real Montgomery county residents disagree with you. Over 85% said Montgomery county is a great place to raise a family and over 82% said MCPS is great.

Not according to last year’s community survey.

“Ratings related to the public school system in Montgomery County tended to be more mixed. Thinking about County focus areas and whether they have gotten better, worse, or stayed the same in the past two years, about one-third of respondents rated public schools (K-12) as somewhat worse or much worse than two years ago, and another 4 in 10 felt they had stayed about the same. When asked to rate various aspects of Montgomery County K-12 public schools, respondents gave the most positive ratings to the diversity of race/ethnicity of the student body (80% excellent or good), the accessibility of teachers and administrators (73%), overall quality of education (73%), and school facilities (67%); they were least likely to give positive marks to class size (46%), teacher/student ratio (46%) or the food/cafeterias (38%).“


https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/OPI/Resources/Files/2022/2021-NCS-Report.pdf#page=8

Yes, it's according to this survey.

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Anonymous wrote:OP — I’d be more willing to listen if you weren’t so over the top. Tone it down and try again, and you might convince more people.

OK then let me calm down and try again. This is why MoCo is failing:

- Council supports crony capitalism for developer donors
- Executive doesn’t appear to support private sector at all
- Council supports meaningless social justice initiatives
- Executive has bombastic history of leftist rhetoric and associations
- Executive favors insider supporters over regular constituents
- Like other leftist regimes, when you tax and “social justice” your tax base to oblivion, they leave.

Got it?

Is this like the anarchy in Portland, or New York City emptying out? And then you go to Portland and almost all of the streets are as orderly as ever, or you go to New York City and there are still millions of people living there?

Montgomery County isn't paradise on earth, to be sure, but the only people who believe Montgomery County is failing are people who wish it were still 1975 in Montgomery County. Or maybe 1955.

Not true. Wasn’t even born then. I’ll take MoCo circa 2000, thank you very much. I did not worry about walking in my neighborhood alone at night. The schools were not overcrowded. Teachers had time to focus on even the kids who will be “fine.” Taxes were lower. Great bike trail through Bethesda. Shall I go on?

I would take MoCo 2010 over what we have today. I've never seen such rapid decline.

Me too. Montgomery County and MCPS have definitely declined over the past 10-12 years. We have had kids in the school system and have seen the changes from the oldest to the youngest. Have lived in MoCo for 15 years and it is definitely not as great a place to raise a family as it used to be, unfortunately.

Well the majority of real Montgomery county residents disagree with you. Over 85% said Montgomery county is a great place to raise a family and over 82% said MCPS is great.

"A representative sample of 565 people were surveyed"

That's how it works. That's usually the case

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I agree with you.
I wish we could move, but our jobs have a pinned.

You know you could just cross the river, right? Or drive down on wisconsin Ave, or Connecticut Ave, or Massachusetts Ave or 16th street down to DC, right?

Can’t afford it anymore. DC real estate has appreciated much more than ours.

True. In the 1980s and 1900s, inner Maryland suburbs were considered more desirable than DC. Now, the opposite is true.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I agree with you.
I wish we could move, but our jobs have a pinned.

You know you could just cross the river, right? Or drive down on wisconsin Ave, or Connecticut Ave, or Massachusetts Ave or 16th street down to DC, right?

Can’t afford it anymore. DC real estate has appreciated much more than ours.

True. In the 1980s and 1900s, inner Maryland suburbs were considered more desirable than DC. Now, the opposite is true.

No, it's not. DC is not at all more desirable, on the contrary. Most of the recent people in DC are because of their jobs.
Don't confuse appreciation with desirability

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Anonymous wrote:OP — I’d be more willing to listen if you weren’t so over the top. Tone it down and try again, and you might convince more people.

OK then let me calm down and try again. This is why MoCo is failing:

- Council supports crony capitalism for developer donors
- Executive doesn’t appear to support private sector at all
- Council supports meaningless social justice initiatives
- Executive has bombastic history of leftist rhetoric and associations
- Executive favors insider supporters over regular constituents
- Like other leftist regimes, when you tax and “social justice” your tax base to oblivion, they leave.

Got it?

Is this like the anarchy in Portland, or New York City emptying out? And then you go to Portland and almost all of the streets are as orderly as ever, or you go to New York City and there are still millions of people living there?

Montgomery County isn't paradise on earth, to be sure, but the only people who believe Montgomery County is failing are people who wish it were still 1975 in Montgomery County. Or maybe 1955.

Not true. Wasn’t even born then. I’ll take MoCo circa 2000, thank you very much. I did not worry about walking in my neighborhood alone at night. The schools were not overcrowded. Teachers had time to focus on even the kids who will be “fine.” Taxes were lower. Great bike trail through Bethesda. Shall I go on?

I would take MoCo 2010 over what we have today. I've never seen such rapid decline.

Me too. Montgomery County and MCPS have definitely declined over the past 10-12 years. We have had kids in the school system and have seen the changes from the oldest to the youngest. Have lived in MoCo for 15 years and it is definitely not as great a place to raise a family as it used to be, unfortunately.

Well the majority of real Montgomery county residents disagree with you. Over 85% said Montgomery county is a great place to raise a family and over 82% said MCPS is great.

"A representative sample of 565 people were surveyed"

That's how it works. That's usually the case

The county is 1 million+. Second, they chose the group for "diversity." So no, that's not how sampling works.