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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At my home in PG looking over a lake and some neighbors playing golf now. Looking forward to our gorgeous community pool opening in a couple months. Love that my family has plenty of room to live and entertain and that we are not paying a huge mortgage so we can afford to send DD to an excellent private school. So, no, not sick of anything.[/quote]

Yeah I remember feeling that way too, until my $1M house (Oak Creek) sunk in value to $400K. And there are still short sales on my block for $500K. We are next in line to dump our place. We are burning money my staying and its not worth it to painfully commute to the good private schools in DC. Our PG dream has died. Over it. For sale. Goodbye.[/quote]

I know I'm resurrecting an old thread, but I don't get it. I grew up in PG, Landover, Palmer Park and Riverdale mostly. I remember marveling at Bowie and Greenbelt and other areas and generally finding places like Bladensburg and Capital Heights to be a little ghetto, but we shopped where we needed and even hung out at Iverson Mall regularly (it was the perfect teen hangout in the 90s). There are beautiful parks everywhere, where we had our pick to picnic and have family reunions and kickball competitions. Our churches were excellent and we did a lot of community stuff at Seat Pleasant Community Center, the Bladensburg Public Playhouse, it wasn't nearly as bad as people make it seem. Not perfect, there was crime lurking in certain places but if you were a decent family with nerdy /churchy kids, no one was bothering you. We were out and about all the time and as teenagers, my sisters and I caught the Metro everywhere and were safe because we had street sense (had to be back before dinner of course).

All that said, I saw Oak Creek and remember when it was first being built. I also saw Woodmore and now Fairwood (which is nicely landscaped and designed much better). But Oak Creek in comparison was literally mansions in the middle of nowhere. Even me with a working class background knew that it was a complete mistake to buy out there. There are NO neighborhood amenities. Everywhere is a minimum 5 mile drive away from you, even fast food. Its just a bunch of UMC people staring at themselves inside huge, lofty houses with shiny appliances, and baby trees in the backyard that makes the place look desolate. Hubby and I recently came back to the county to tour the area, and it STILL looks like that. Why on earth would anyone buy a McMansion to be surrounded in nothingness?

This happens all the time and then the buyer gets pissed after a few years because their house value decreased and then they call foul. But why did you sink all of your money into a house without considering the surrounding area/neighborhood? No one wants to move to the boondocks just to have a big house anymore--I'd much prefer Landover Hills over Oak Creek! [/quote]

I live in Upper Marlboro and bought my house in 2008 for 330k and it’s now worth $490k so I’m not sure where you’re getting your data. I’ll definitely pass on Landover![/quote]

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