Reply to Is silver spring a decent place to live?

Forum Index » Real Estate

Reply to "Is silver spring a decent place to live?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How’s Rockville for house appreciation prospects? I feel like some areas like Twinbrook are really cheap and prime for value add/gentrification [/quote]

Not good. No one moves to Rockville and everyone on DCUM makes fun of it for being the last stop on the red line.[/quote]

Shady grove is.[/quote]

Twinbrook, Rockville, and Shady Grove are super high crime with declining home values and bad schools. If you park your car in any of those areas it will be broken into. Don’t buy at the end of the red line, it’s super unsafe.[/quote]
You must be thinking of the other side of the red line, with Glenmont and Wheaton. The eastern side of Rockville like Aspen Hill, touching the silver spring border is the more working class segment. Twinbrook is kinda sleepy and Rockville town center is very safe. Shady grove (and Derwood by extension) is very sleepy, not much happening. It gets “sketch” around Montgomery Village, which is much north of shady grove station.

In fact, most of the “action” has actually happened by pike and rose, where’s there’s lot of foot traffic[/quote]

No one wants to live in Rockville. Definitely stay away. Definitely live in Bethesda.[/quote]
I didn’t ask if people “want” to live in Rockville. I asked about price appreciation. If people can’t afford Bethesda, where are they naturally going to look? My first thought was a couple stops up the red line[/quote]

It’s a bad area, tons of crime. If you buy there you’ll lose money. Don’t look there.[/quote]

At least it's not the crime-ridden area known as Clarendon in Arlington:

“A bunch of fights with arrests. This was 1:45 a.m. EMS was called & at least one taken away by police from a scuffle on the sidewalk in the area of Clarendon Ballroom & Spider Kelly’s… At 3:00 police found a ‘man down’ at Clarendon & Garfield. And at 3:15 police went into the residential neighborhood to track down people involved in a fight at Big Tony’s Pizza. Just your typical night in Clarendon.”

https://x.com/STATter911/status/1860753354051490032[/quote]

It is delusional hubris to compare Rockville to Arlington. Arlington used to be part of DC, Rockville is a 30 minute train ride from Metro Center. If you’re going to compare Rockville to something compare it to Fair Oaks, Vienna, Fairfax City or another place that’s a sleepy burb far away from the action. You don’t want to compare it to these places though because it’s behind by any metric: schools, crime, home appreciation, economic growth, new business openings, etc.

If we’re being honest, besides Bethesda there is no place in MoCo that has residential and retail as nice as Tysons, Clarendon, Crystal City, Old Town, Del Ray, Vienna, Falls Church City, Fairfax City, Mosaic. I could go on. There’s a reason it’s so expensive to live in VA now and you can’t a SFH fixer upper in any of the areas I listed for less than $800,000. [/quote]

+1, even though it’s not what the delusional MoCo boosters want to hear. MoCo was definitely once king of the burbs — now it’s NoVa and that’s just the way it is. [/quote]

It's weird to go on and on about MoCo when you don't live or work there.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics