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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a former resident and home owner in both Fairfax and Alexandria. I hated every min of living in NOVA. It was over crowded with endless amounts of gridlock, and had an abundance of pretentious jerks. I paid a ridiculous amount of money for a 1100 SF home that had sub par schools and was not walk-able to anything. I also commuted about an hour or more to SE DC to work.

I grew tired of NOVA and started looking for other options. I was delighted with what I found in PG county. Specifically in the Arts District in Hyattsville, University Park, Riverdale, and College Park. All of these areas have amazing amenities, good public transportation, and housing stock that is affordable. The neighborhoods that I started looking at have beautiful arts and crafts bungalows, Victorians, colonials, etc. and all were under 500K when I was looking. I now own in PG. I own a historic house from 1911 that has been completely restored, over 2500 SF, 5 bedrooms, 3 full baths, detached garage, and a nice size yard. I have a walk score of 80 and can walk to everything in the Arts District, as well as to the Whole Foods (I have made it big, lol) complex in Riverdale. I can also walk to the MARC train station in Riverdale and the Farmers Market. I have a bus line that picks up in front of my house and I can be at the PG Plaza Metro station in less than 10 mins. I am a stone throw away from everything at PG Plaza Mall/Target/Safeway. I am a stone throw away from the DC Costco and all of Dakota Crossing. I am an easy Uber ride from most DC attractions and nightlife.

I also have AMAZING neighbors! The community here is very welcoming and there are countless community events. We even have our own newspaper that highlights the wonderful people who live here in PGC. The schools are not amazing, but are improving, but it should also be noted that there are several affordable private school options in PG, I happen to also live walk-able to one and will most likely send my son there. I will end up paying less than I was for daycare! The schools were also not very good in Alexandria! People go crazy for Del Ray, but the schools there are terrible and I have everything I had there, here (plus more), and I paid half of what I did in Del Ray! I would also like to note that my house cost 470K exactly one year ago today and it has already appreciate by 80K in a year!!

I am over the moon excited that I have found my forever home and expect that people coming to this area for Amazon will look at PG as a real option for housing. I think more business will come to this area as well. I am glad I made the move I did, and I think others in this area will start to take PG seriously! [/quote]

OK, you MENTION the public schools -- as "they aren't all that bad" but "I will probably send my kid to a local private school."  So, yeah, you MENTION the schools, but you don't actually USE any public schools in PG and you plan to send your kid to private.  So, you are glossing over the big reason people avoid PG County -- public schools, especially at the MS and HS level are not good enough.  I have friends (white friends) in PGCPS and in the TAG program.  I will agree that they have had a very good education in the TAG program.  But, when the acceptances/rejections for Roosevelt Sci/Tech came out -- my friends and all the families they know (also in TAG) were either getting into Roosevelt or taking a huge hit to sent their kids to private HS -- $25K per year and up.  [/quote]

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