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[quote=Anonymous]Hi, we lived in Bethesda for years, moved to the midwest, and now we are planning a move back. We really enjoyed Bethesda before and assumed that is where we will return. However, my friends in the area have told me that violent crime is way up: carjackings, armed robbery and glass broken out/vandalism in stores across downtown Bethesda. Last week an employee at the CVS on Wisconsin was stabbed. (Yikes! I used to go to that CVS!) A friend in CC is thinking of moving. We are not interested to spend $$ and feel unsafe going out. My read is that there are some deep problems in Montgomery County leading to the spike in crime and I am concerned that it will get worse.

My husband is in tech and his company's HQ is in the Dulles corridor. His team has always been 100% remote since before the pandemic. However, if we lived near the HQ he would like to go into the office some. Also, I read that violent crime in Fairfax was 1/2 of what it has been in MoCo recently. Housing prices and taxes are also lower in NOVA. They have a more robust police department and their judicial system seems stricter. We don't care about the public schools as we have always done private.

When I write it out like this, NOVA seems like the best choice. However, we have a strong emotional attachment to Bethesda related to our previous years there. I would like to smooth over my unease about violent crime in MoCo but am unsure. Thoughts?
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