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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe a person looked at a crappy shack in Bethesda for that money and at the big nice house/town-home in the Crown area and said, I'd rather have crappy commute and come home to a nice place and not be depressed all the time? Or maybe they are doctors with a practice nearby or tech people and just liked it?[/quote]

And all those would be perfectly reasonable choices for SOME people to make.  Some people could reasonably make other choices that have nothing to do with racism - it is the contention that the only reason people don't want to live in Gaithersburg is racism that I have objected to.

This is also neither here nor there, but if you really have $1.5M to spend, you can get far more than a crappy shack in Bethesda.[/quote]

when they point to white schools being better, it's racism/classism/limousine liberals. [/quote]

Who has pointed to white schools?  One person referred to ganglandia, but everyone else is pointing out perfectly reasonable reasons wholly unrelated to race why many people are disinterested in Gaithersburg.[/quote]

Maybe no one pointed to white schools in this thread, but I have seen it mentioned many times in other forums on this site. Some people associate "better" neighborhoods and schools as those with a majority white population. There are studies that show that white neighborhoods have higher appreciation values that similar neighborhoods (housing stock, type) with larger black or minority populations. It's a self feeding cycle.

All that said, I don't see the hype about Bethesda or DC. Maybe it is because I don't prefer to leave in or even close to the city. I don't care what other people do/choose, I just wish people were a bit more thoughtful and didn't write off whole communities based on alternative facts.[/quote]

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