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[quote=Anonymous]Flower Valley is a pretty nice neighborhood.

Know people that grew up there and said  they would move back if they still lived in the area.  Their description was that they liked the tree lined street neighborhood feel.  So maybe the kind of place for people that are looking for nice homes with big yards, etc.

And know other people that currently live there and considered it when looking in the area.  I've heard people that live outside of Flower Valley in that area refer it to "where the rich people live".

I do know some people that commuted downtown from there.  I think they'd either take the Rockville or Glenmont stations depending on what side of DC they had to go on.  On this board some people mentioned going to Twinbrook metro from that area.  It wasn't an ideal commute but I'm sure it's probably the same if they went from Germantown or any of the parts that are further out.

It's convenient to the Aspen Hill area, Olney and Howard County if you do things in those areas and want to live in Montgomery County.  It's not that close to the 270/495, so you'd take a lot of local roads.  ie 28/198 to go east towards Howard County or PG County.  (you can take the ICC too if it goes towards the area you want to)  97 down towards Silver Spring or Aspen Hill, or Olney the other way.

Some of the negatives for me, which is based off of old information, not being there for a while are that the traffic on Norbeck Road can be really bad.  I don't think there are a lot of bus options in there.  Maybe if you're willing to walk out to Norbeck Road.  And if you're deep in the neighborhood it can be days before they shovel your roads to get out.  And it may be house specific but we know one family in there where their FIOS goes out for days.  And when FIOS goes out so does their phone line.  So there are times when they're snowed in and no one can reach them.  (They're older folks who don't keep their cell phones on)

I don't know much about the school there other than the Great Schools ranking.  It seems kind of low for what I'd expect for the area, since people describe it the "rich" area.  And looking at the service map, it doesn't look like it catches a lot of areas outside of Flower Valley or Manor Lake (which is a nice neighborhood too).  Maybe a little bit north of Leisure World, but it doesn't look like that big of an area where I wouldn't think that it would affect the school's ranking in anyway.  And granted Great Schools ranking don't mean everything and only reflects test scores.  But a lot of people indicate that it correlates with SES.  So would've expected it to be higher there.
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