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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I  have lived in frederick county for twenty years, originally from northern nj, and know Urbana well. It is more developed and more crowded than say fifteen years ago obviously, but I agree it (and Frederick county) are still lovely in many ways. Urbana was I think developed under a model of "new urbanism" in the past twenty five years so the new houses were meant to be close, to  have alleys in the back, to have porches to facilitate community and to be walkable.

They have a great, modern  library that offers a lot of programming. Like s pp said, I have heard the Y is good. The area is physically beautiful, mountains and farm views in many areas of the county and yes most people are very friendly and often very educated, contrary to the stereotypes.  Frederick currently has more registered democrats than Republicans, has its fair share too (which surprised me) of former New York and New Jersey residents . We love it here, Urbana is maybe 10 mins to Frederick and that opens up a ton of choices as well: for eating out, antiquing, shows and speakers at the weinburg, dance schools, coffee shops, funky clothes stores and interesting/high end home stores as well. And finally my experiences giving birth and having a couple medical emergencies over the past years have resulted in getting very good, solid care at Frederick memorial hospital. I still see a few specialists in dc area but overall there is access here to high quality healthcare.[/quote]

Nice summary. We are on the same boat as OP. Not because of the home price reason but for quality (lack of) education in MCPS schools. Schools are rated high. We visited the area multiple times and one thing I noticed is that people are generally very nice and welcoming.[/quote]

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