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[quote=Anonymous]Don't make the same mistakes we made and buy into the hype and pay a premium for a small older house in TP without knowing what you are truly getting, scope out exactly where you will be living and come back at multiple times before deciding. The oldtown part of TP is cute but now kind of a pain to drive through and Carrol is just the worst. There are some cute neighborhoods in the historic parts but they turn shady and crappy quickly as you get closer to New Hampshire, University Blvd, Maple Ave (non-SFH part) and Flower Ave. The bane of TP is it really is right on the edge of what many would consider civilization, many don't agree with me but drive around the close by PG and the DC neighborhoods and judge for your self.

Silver Spring is huge and ranges from Ok to forgettable down to pretty bad with some of the worst being right on the edge of DTSS and TP like Piney Branch and University. Obviously you would want to close to downtown preferably south of Dale Dr or just north. Even then you have to be careful with school expectations as the best neighborhoods (Woodside and Woodside Park) goes to one of the lesser school clusters where the other decent neighborhood (Sligo Park Hills) has a very sub par elementary school and is on the far edge of what could be consider walkable.  There are a few compromise neighborhoods (Woodmore and Forest Glen) that are cheaper and rightly so but offer decent options for the area if your budget is south of 600k.

The problem with the DTSS area is it is just recovering for decades of being the dumping ground of low income housing and neglect form the county and while it is going though a transformation it still has many of the cons of poorer urban areas and the cons of the suburbs.  
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