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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Especially about the environment, animal rights (most vegan friendly neighborhoods or cities?), lgbtq rights, and a people-over-profits mentality?[/quote]

To answer this directly, you have to understand something about governance in this region. A lot of it happens at the county level. So, I think neighborhoods around DTSS meet a ton of your needs, including having a lot of LGBTQ folks and non-nuclear family living situations. However, Silver Spring does not have its own government, so the actual policies are only as liberal as the county more broadly.

On the other hand, Takoma Park is a governing unit so they have more say over their own governance. So, they can extend the right to vote in municial elections to 16 year-olds and non-citizens, for example. They can declare themselves nuclear free (for what that is worth in 2022).

However, because Takoma Park has become so expensive, it's a two-edged sword. As it has gentrified, the political will for some of those progressive measures has deteriorated. The problem with local governance is that it can change.

You have some good choices on the Maryland side but some of the issues are just baked into the way political power is distributed. [/quote]

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