Moving to Annapolis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll get on board with the poster that equated Annapolis to Bethesda, kinda.

My main thing with the sophistication level of Anne Arundel is that you'll hear some very serious conversations about cheer squad politics -- and that is the most important thing. That's the ceiling. You probably won't hear stuff like that in DC, but if you do, not as important.

My second home in Anne Arundel is on the water. Never go to restaurants for crabs. Find trusted dealers and pay for the big ones live and steam them yourself. Or if the weather is nice, take the jet ski to the boat before they get to shore. Bring cash.

I don't buy the argument that the Annapolis or water oriented lifestyle is healthier. Maybe more outdoors, but marina culture is booze heavy -- AND FUN.

What is cheer squad politics???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This totally matches our impression of SP. People there thought they were so special because they lived there. I mean, it had nice parts and people were nice, but it felt like they thought they were special in a new money kind of way. It felt like they wanted a nicer house so they could say it was nicer, but because they actually enjoyed more space or a quieter setting or even being near the water.

Severna Park is an upscale version of Glen Burnie that thinks it’s Bethesda, Potomac, and Chevy Chase.

This. Rednecks with white collar jobs

[blakejosh]

Annapolis is great place to live in. I bet you're gonna love it.

[Anonymous]

Is Annapolis very diverse? We considered moving there to be by the water but I was worried that as an Asian person it would be very very white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Annapolis very diverse? We considered moving there to be by the water but I was worried that as an Asian person it would be very very white.

It’s very diverse when it comes to white/Black/Hispanic, but it has almost no Asian people. It’s also very segregated. That being said, if you want to be on or near the water, go check it out. It’s a beautiful city and you might fall in love with it.

[Anonymous]

If you don’t like to eat out a lot, you will enjoy. Dining was a whole is underwhelming here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here -thanks for the info, and keep it coming! One question that I'd love to hear your thoughts on: Right now, we live in an apartment in NWDC, which we love but have outgrown. We'll never afford to buy a home in our current neighborhood. Our options are to move out to someplace like Fairfax or Rockville, or even further, like Annapolis. I look at moving to Annapolis as moving *away* from DC. Yes, we would still be close, and would commute in twice a week for work, but we would relocating - new schools, doctors, restaurants, friends, new everything. In my mind, that isn't as true of a move out to NOVA or MOCO, but...isn't it? If we moved to Reston or Rockville or someplace considered part of the DMV, wouldn't it still feel like moving away? I think, because we have a lot of friends here, if we were to move to Rockville, we would still see our DC friends a lot. Am I kidding myself on that?

We were in your shoes and moved to crofton. We do not see our dc friends much anymore, but then again everyone is immersed in young kids right now. We go to Baltimore slightly more often than dc, Annapolis less often. but mostly we stay around Crofton. 4 yo Kids have activities (gym, swim, clubs) that keep us local. Plus there’s lots of biking to playgrounds, biking to ice cream shops, libraries, etc that keep us busy. I miss a lot about city life for me personally but for raising kids this little town is very convenient. Our neighborhood (the old part- triangle) has sidewalks that everyone uses which I would strongly recommend looking for. I would add odenton and Bowie to your list both have great bike trails and the Marc access might come in handy depending on where you commute to in dc. Also Bowie has good parochial options in addition to the magnets. Also hyattsville and greensbelt.

Some friends have moved to grovesnor and Kensington and are happy there as well. They have townhouses in grovesnor that might be in your price range. Our one commute 2x a week is to suitland so that would not have worked for us.

[Anonymous]

blakejosh wrote:Annapolis is great place to live in. I bet you're gonna love it.

I absolutely love Annapolis and my family does too. I was there with my daughter for a day trip a few months ago and she just loved it there. Everything about it.

I'm envious of anyone who gets to live there.

[Anonymous]

In general not a lot of Asians by water. I say this as I only a little place by the water and never once had an Asian look at place when renting. I guess boating, fishing, going to beach are big draws and my turn you pay a premium to live there and see schools suck and no ethic food in them.

It is basically lay on beach, go to bar or a burger or pizza joint.

Jewish is our big nationality by far. Love the beach, restaurants and kids go to Yeishva and we have a temple in town.

Spanish is now moving in they like water too.

Blacks and Asians hardly any. I guess paying an extra 300k to be by water or beach makes less sense if rarely go

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

blakejosh wrote:Annapolis is great place to live in. I bet you're gonna love it.

I absolutely love Annapolis and my family does too. I was there with my daughter for a day trip a few months ago and she just loved it there. Everything about it.

I'm envious of anyone who gets to live there.

There is a big difference between visiting for a day and living someplace. What did she like about it? We live in Annap and don't understand why people make it out to be this amazing place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll get on board with the poster that equated Annapolis to Bethesda, kinda.

My main thing with the sophistication level of Anne Arundel is that you'll hear some very serious conversations about cheer squad politics -- and that is the most important thing. That's the ceiling. You probably won't hear stuff like that in DC, but if you do, not as important.

My second home in Anne Arundel is on the water. Never go to restaurants for crabs. Find trusted dealers and pay for the big ones live and steam them yourself. Or if the weather is nice, take the jet ski to the boat before they get to shore. Bring cash.

I don't buy the argument that the Annapolis or water oriented lifestyle is healthier. Maybe more outdoors, but marina culture is booze heavy -- AND FUN.

What is cheer squad politics???

“Cheer politics” refers to reasoned debate about the recent SCOTUS decision. I don’t know why PP finds that so offensive.

[Anonymous]

Are there any majority white areas that aren’t rednecky? Isn’t that white American culture especially as it relates to class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are there any majority white areas that aren’t rednecky? Isn’t that white American culture especially as it relates to class?

If you’ve been in suburban Dallas or Atlanta I think you’ll find that minorities share all the classic “redneck” traits with white people of the same SES class-truck driving, country music, raggedy lawns with maybe a couple non-running vehicles on them... and it’s pretty true in middle class blue collar neighborhoods of AA county as well.

[Anonymous]

Reading dcum threads about Annapolis is always so entertaining.
So many clueless and inaccurate posts.

Annapolis High School is 37% Hispanic, 30% white and 26% black.
(So granted, very few Asian students)
Even South River, which is the in bound school for a lot of the richer water front areas of Annapolis, is less than 75% white.
But yeah, clearly Annapolis is just a bunch of wanna be white boaters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading dcum threads about Annapolis is always so entertaining.
So many clueless and inaccurate posts.

Annapolis High School is 37% Hispanic, 30% white and 26% black.
(So granted, very few Asian students)
Even South River, which is the in bound school for a lot of the richer water front areas of Annapolis, is less than 75% white.
But yeah, clearly Annapolis is just a bunch of wanna be white boaters.

South River isn’t the wealthier part of Annapolis, it just has way less low-income housing. Annapolis is wealthier, but it also has more low-income people at the same time. Annapolis would probably a majority white school if more of the white people actually sent their kids to public school.

South River is not wealthy, it’s in EDGEWATER. Enough said.

And? Edgewater has tons of affluent residents. South River also serves Davidsonville.