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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is this person who keeps claiming white flight is going to Howard County.  I've lived in DC on and off for 15 years, in the city and in the suburbs, and have never even met anyone who lives in Howard County let alone someone willing to do that commute.  A handful of colleagues live in Anne Arundel County for specific school options, but this idea that a large number of Montgomery County residents will flee that far is unlikely.  [/quote]

Search the real estate thread for Howard County - many posts from people inquiring about Howard County as they consider it vs Mo Co for where to move to.[/quote]

I don't doubt there are people who want to live in Howard County.  What I doubt is that people who have actively chosen an urban, walkable, diverse, neighborhood like Takoma Park or Silver Spring are going to up and move 45 minutes away because they fear the coming Brown menace. [/quote]

As a side note, I am curious how the demographics of Takoma Park will change in the upcoming years.  There isn't really room to build more affordable housing (I'm not counting the new hipster-attracting development in the downtown area), and housing prices keep going up.  It does attract higher-income, diverse families.   [/quote]

I think people gloss over there are two takoma parks. The cute walkable historic part near ish to the metro and the rest of it.  Only the cute part is really enjoying any resuragence, the rest is the poster child to what is happening to the rest of the county.[/quote]

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