Is silver spring a decent place to live?

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

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Anonymous wrote:Many nice neighborhoods have been mentioned in this string. As for DTSS? Nope. Not nearby or an amenity IMO.

My son and I used to eat in DTSS nearly every weekend for years. We always parked in this garage. No more. Have not been back since.

Family Pleads for Answers as Man's Killing in Silver Spring Parking Garage Goes Unsolved.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/family-pleads-for-answers-as-mans-killing-in-silver-spring-parking-garage-goes-unsolved/3340528/

And then the shootout in DT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtRESki13YY

On the other hand, I see that robbers were in the Bethesda Target recently, so there's that.
https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail_Pol.aspx?Item_ID=46205

If you're so obsessed with unsolved murders, then I'm sure this one in Arlington will be of interest to you also. (Or maybe not, since you only care about trashing Silver Spring): https://www.arlnow.com/2024/02/20/four-years-after-unsolved-ballston-murder-no-new-details-from-police/

And in terms of shootouts, how about three teens being shot on Halloween, again in Arlington: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/3-shot-on-columbia-pike-in-arlington-on-halloween-night/3756138/

And armed robberies, well those are sadly common throughout the DMV. Here's one in Arlington where one person was shot and a bystander just missed getting shot: https://wjla.com/news/local/person-shot-robbed-suspects-run-off-bystander-survived-coffee-shop-ballston-arlington-county-police-department-investigation-gun-violence-gunshot-wounds-dmv-crime

I really have no idea why people on here are so obsessed about trashing SS and acting like they live in areas that are free of crime. My theory is that people just want to defend having paid so much money to live in their high-priced areas that are not any safer than SS.

Don’t act like SS isn’t far shittier than Arlington and then turn around and say that other postere are defensive. Makes it impossible to take you seriously.

Just because you dislike SS and insist on making every crime in SS worthy of ten posts on DCUM, that does not make your dislike justified, especially as you ignore all the comparable crime happening elsewhere. I hope you've found what you're looking for in NoVA, but for anyone who wants a safe area that is full of great people and wonderful neighborhoods, SS is an excellent choice.

You are arguing in bad faith. Silver Spring has far more crime than Arlington or Alexandria and the stats back it up. It is also, unlike Arlington or Alexandria, on a downward trajectory in terms of crime and general quality of life.

I’ve lived in this area for 40 years. Downtown Silver Spring was much nicer 15-20 years ago. It had slidden downhill as DC’s crime rates have ticked up. DC had 92 homicides in 2012 and carjackings weren’t nearly as prevalent as they are now. Last year DC had 274 (!!!) murders and almost 1,000 carjackings. Silver Spring is just up Georgia Avenue from some sketchy neighborhoods in NE. It is not rocket science that a lot of crime would spill over into MoCo. Additionally, criminals know that the DAs in MoCo are far more lax than the DAs in Northern VA.

If you lived there for 40 years then you would know that there’s much more to Silver Spring than just DTSS. Talking about arguing in bad faith…….

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

That’s also Rockville. The last three stops are all City of Rockville.

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

We live in Rockville in the Wootton cluster and our house has gone up nicely in value over the last 10 years. I don’t think Twinbrook has as much upward potential. Small, old housing stock and iffy schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Many nice neighborhoods have been mentioned in this string. As for DTSS? Nope. Not nearby or an amenity IMO.

My son and I used to eat in DTSS nearly every weekend for years. We always parked in this garage. No more. Have not been back since.

Family Pleads for Answers as Man's Killing in Silver Spring Parking Garage Goes Unsolved.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/family-pleads-for-answers-as-mans-killing-in-silver-spring-parking-garage-goes-unsolved/3340528/

And then the shootout in DT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtRESki13YY

On the other hand, I see that robbers were in the Bethesda Target recently, so there's that.
https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail_Pol.aspx?Item_ID=46205

As DC prices out their poor, the ones they failed to educate and raise properly, MOCO gets stuck with them due to being the only place where apartments cost under $2k for rent. The poor people from Montgomery county aren’t the issue, it’s the people from everywhere else

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

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Trust me when I say this, living in Rockville will put you so far away from everything that you might as well move back to Ohio or Indian or Iowa or whatever s-hole state you’re from.

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3rd generation SS resident here. This is just a weird thread. 20901.

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Anonymous wrote:Many nice neighborhoods have been mentioned in this string. As for DTSS? Nope. Not nearby or an amenity IMO.

My son and I used to eat in DTSS nearly every weekend for years. We always parked in this garage. No more. Have not been back since.

Family Pleads for Answers as Man's Killing in Silver Spring Parking Garage Goes Unsolved.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/family-pleads-for-answers-as-mans-killing-in-silver-spring-parking-garage-goes-unsolved/3340528/

And then the shootout in DT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtRESki13YY

On the other hand, I see that robbers were in the Bethesda Target recently, so there's that.
https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail_Pol.aspx?Item_ID=46205

If you're so obsessed with unsolved murders, then I'm sure this one in Arlington will be of interest to you also. (Or maybe not, since you only care about trashing Silver Spring): https://www.arlnow.com/2024/02/20/four-years-after-unsolved-ballston-murder-no-new-details-from-police/

And in terms of shootouts, how about three teens being shot on Halloween, again in Arlington: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/3-shot-on-columbia-pike-in-arlington-on-halloween-night/3756138/

And armed robberies, well those are sadly common throughout the DMV. Here's one in Arlington where one person was shot and a bystander just missed getting shot: https://wjla.com/news/local/person-shot-robbed-suspects-run-off-bystander-survived-coffee-shop-ballston-arlington-county-police-department-investigation-gun-violence-gunshot-wounds-dmv-crime

I really have no idea why people on here are so obsessed about trashing SS and acting like they live in areas that are free of crime. My theory is that people just want to defend having paid so much money to live in their high-priced areas that are not any safer than SS.

Don’t act like SS isn’t far shittier than Arlington and then turn around and say that other postere are defensive. Makes it impossible to take you seriously.

Just because you dislike SS and insist on making every crime in SS worthy of ten posts on DCUM, that does not make your dislike justified, especially as you ignore all the comparable crime happening elsewhere. I hope you've found what you're looking for in NoVA, but for anyone who wants a safe area that is full of great people and wonderful neighborhoods, SS is an excellent choice.

You are arguing in bad faith. Silver Spring has far more crime than Arlington or Alexandria and the stats back it up. It is also, unlike Arlington or Alexandria, on a downward trajectory in terms of crime and general quality of life.

I’ve lived in this area for 40 years. Downtown Silver Spring was much nicer 15-20 years ago. It had slidden downhill as DC’s crime rates have ticked up. DC had 92 homicides in 2012 and carjackings weren’t nearly as prevalent as they are now. Last year DC had 274 (!!!) murders and almost 1,000 carjackings. Silver Spring is just up Georgia Avenue from some sketchy neighborhoods in NE. It is not rocket science that a lot of crime would spill over into MoCo. Additionally, criminals know that the DAs in MoCo are far more lax than the DAs in Northern VA.

Your arguments are in such bad faith that your accusation is insane. Arlington and Alexandria are just over the DC border, and criminals flock to those places. That's why you guys have daily crime reports that are pages and pages long, full of shootings, robberies, rapes, and assaults. You really need to educate yourself about Parisa, the DA in Arlington, who was just re-elected, as she does not believe in incarcerating most criminals -- and her views are very much in line with most people which is why she was re-elected.

You all are trending downhill badly -- even your own PD says so: https://www.arlnow.com/2024/06/11/acpd-crime-rose-in-2023-with-drug-crimes-up-20/ -- but keep burying your head in the sand.

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

You must be thinking of the other side of the red line, with Glenmont and Wheaton. The eastern side of Rockville like Aspen Hill, touching the silver spring border is the more working class segment. Twinbrook is kinda sleepy and Rockville town center is very safe. Shady grove (and Derwood by extension) is very sleepy, not much happening. It gets “sketch” around Montgomery Village, which is much north of shady grove station.

In fact, most of the “action” has actually happened by pike and rose, where’s there’s lot of foot traffic

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Anonymous wrote:Trust me when I say this, living in Rockville will put you so far away from everything that you might as well move back to Ohio or Indian or Iowa or whatever s-hole state you’re from.

Far away from what, exactly?

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Anonymous wrote:Many nice neighborhoods have been mentioned in this string. As for DTSS? Nope. Not nearby or an amenity IMO.

My son and I used to eat in DTSS nearly every weekend for years. We always parked in this garage. No more. Have not been back since.

Family Pleads for Answers as Man's Killing in Silver Spring Parking Garage Goes Unsolved.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/family-pleads-for-answers-as-mans-killing-in-silver-spring-parking-garage-goes-unsolved/3340528/

And then the shootout in DT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtRESki13YY

On the other hand, I see that robbers were in the Bethesda Target recently, so there's that.
https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail_Pol.aspx?Item_ID=46205

If you're so obsessed with unsolved murders, then I'm sure this one in Arlington will be of interest to you also. (Or maybe not, since you only care about trashing Silver Spring): https://www.arlnow.com/2024/02/20/four-years-after-unsolved-ballston-murder-no-new-details-from-police/

And in terms of shootouts, how about three teens being shot on Halloween, again in Arlington: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/3-shot-on-columbia-pike-in-arlington-on-halloween-night/3756138/

And armed robberies, well those are sadly common throughout the DMV. Here's one in Arlington where one person was shot and a bystander just missed getting shot: https://wjla.com/news/local/person-shot-robbed-suspects-run-off-bystander-survived-coffee-shop-ballston-arlington-county-police-department-investigation-gun-violence-gunshot-wounds-dmv-crime

I really have no idea why people on here are so obsessed about trashing SS and acting like they live in areas that are free of crime. My theory is that people just want to defend having paid so much money to live in their high-priced areas that are not any safer than SS.

Don’t act like SS isn’t far shittier than Arlington and then turn around and say that other postere are defensive. Makes it impossible to take you seriously.

Just because you dislike SS and insist on making every crime in SS worthy of ten posts on DCUM, that does not make your dislike justified, especially as you ignore all the comparable crime happening elsewhere. I hope you've found what you're looking for in NoVA, but for anyone who wants a safe area that is full of great people and wonderful neighborhoods, SS is an excellent choice.

I don’t live in NoVa — I’m a city guy, so I couldn’t live in NoVA or MoCo given the choice. I’m very happy in DC.

That being said — I enjoy real estate and I try to see the world for what it is. The reality is SS, and MoCo broadly speaking, is on a bad trajectory. NoVa is far nicer, and more dynamic. MoCo doesn’t really have job centers, and the activity that brings such as young people and financial growth. NoVa has tysons, pentagon city, and clarendon — massive growth in all three. The closest thing MoCo has is Bethesda — a bedroom community with no jobs except for a few names such as Mariott, no young people or night life, etc.

Silver Spring is nothing like Bethesda. It is a mess — read this article:

https://www.bisnow.com/washington-dc/news/office/nobody-there-how-silver-springs-downtown-district-has-become-stuck-in-the-past-125071

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Anonymous wrote:Many nice neighborhoods have been mentioned in this string. As for DTSS? Nope. Not nearby or an amenity IMO.

My son and I used to eat in DTSS nearly every weekend for years. We always parked in this garage. No more. Have not been back since.

Family Pleads for Answers as Man's Killing in Silver Spring Parking Garage Goes Unsolved.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/family-pleads-for-answers-as-mans-killing-in-silver-spring-parking-garage-goes-unsolved/3340528/

And then the shootout in DT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtRESki13YY

On the other hand, I see that robbers were in the Bethesda Target recently, so there's that.
https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail_Pol.aspx?Item_ID=46205

If you're so obsessed with unsolved murders, then I'm sure this one in Arlington will be of interest to you also. (Or maybe not, since you only care about trashing Silver Spring): https://www.arlnow.com/2024/02/20/four-years-after-unsolved-ballston-murder-no-new-details-from-police/

And in terms of shootouts, how about three teens being shot on Halloween, again in Arlington: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/3-shot-on-columbia-pike-in-arlington-on-halloween-night/3756138/

And armed robberies, well those are sadly common throughout the DMV. Here's one in Arlington where one person was shot and a bystander just missed getting shot: https://wjla.com/news/local/person-shot-robbed-suspects-run-off-bystander-survived-coffee-shop-ballston-arlington-county-police-department-investigation-gun-violence-gunshot-wounds-dmv-crime

I really have no idea why people on here are so obsessed about trashing SS and acting like they live in areas that are free of crime. My theory is that people just want to defend having paid so much money to live in their high-priced areas that are not any safer than SS.

Don’t act like SS isn’t far shittier than Arlington and then turn around and say that other postere are defensive. Makes it impossible to take you seriously.

Just because you dislike SS and insist on making every crime in SS worthy of ten posts on DCUM, that does not make your dislike justified, especially as you ignore all the comparable crime happening elsewhere. I hope you've found what you're looking for in NoVA, but for anyone who wants a safe area that is full of great people and wonderful neighborhoods, SS is an excellent choice.

I don’t live in NoVa — I’m a city guy, so I couldn’t live in NoVA or MoCo given the choice. I’m very happy in DC.

That being said — I enjoy real estate and I try to see the world for what it is. The reality is SS, and MoCo broadly speaking, is on a bad trajectory. NoVa is far nicer, and more dynamic. MoCo doesn’t really have job centers, and the activity that brings such as young people and financial growth. NoVa has tysons, pentagon city, and clarendon — massive growth in all three. The closest thing MoCo has is Bethesda — a bedroom community with no jobs except for a few names such as Mariott, no young people or night life, etc.

Silver Spring is nothing like Bethesda. It is a mess — read this article:

https://www.bisnow.com/washington-dc/news/office/nobody-there-how-silver-springs-downtown-district-has-become-stuck-in-the-past-125071

Arlington is a complete disaster right now:
-- Arlington has abandoned or delayed most of HQ2
-- Boeing is in the midst of massive layoffs
-- Office vacancies are at historic highs (https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/office-vacancy-crisis-taxes-arlington-virginia/) -- this is creating a revenue crisis that will force unprecedented tax increases in the years to come
-- As noted above, Arlington's own police departments has acknowledged that Arlington crime is getting worse and that Arlington is on a negative trajectory with respect to crime
-- Arlington's apartment vacancies are rising, such that Arlington is planning to give illegal immigrants free housing (https://www.arlnow.com/2024/03/04/arlington-considers-removing-immigration-status-requirements-for-low-income-housing-grants/)

If you're not familiar with MoCo job centers, it's because you're not paying attention. Moco has tons of pharmaceutical companies (it's in the top 3 in the nation for pharma), as well as lots of tech companies. You can start educating yourself here:
https://thinkmoco.com/key-industries/
https://mocoshow.com/2024/08/18/maryland-has-116-companies-on-national-2024-inc-5000-list/

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Anonymous wrote:How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.

Shady grove is.

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.

You must be thinking of the other side of the red line, with Glenmont and Wheaton. The eastern side of Rockville like Aspen Hill, touching the silver spring border is the more working class segment. Twinbrook is kinda sleepy and Rockville town center is very safe. Shady grove (and Derwood by extension) is very sleepy, not much happening. It gets “sketch” around Montgomery Village, which is much north of shady grove station.

In fact, most of the “action” has actually happened by pike and rose, where’s there’s lot of foot traffic

No one wants to live in Rockville. Definitely stay away. Definitely live in Bethesda.