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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP doesn't remember that 2000 Bethesda was New Bethesda that replaced run down Old Bethesda.

OP doesn't understand how suburban sprawl spits out new development, burns it out, and then builds something new elsewhere.

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Correct. My aunt build her house in downtown Bethesda BEFORE THERE WAS A METRO STOP there, in the 1980s. We moved from Silver Spring to Bethesda in 2010 and bought a house near hers. She's seen a lot of changes, and she still loves Bethesda.

Is OP the poster who continually dumps on MoCo in favor of NoVa? I would never live in Virginia myself. State laws are not the same. [b]I would MUCH rather pay more in taxes and have better public services![/b]

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More taxes does not mean better public services if they’re not applied by competent people. Silver Line is complete while the Purple Line is still years away and shut down for a few years because of mismanagement and blown up costs. And remember the Silver Spring Transit Hub?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/silver-spring-transit-center-delayed-indefinitely/2012/01/13/gIQAvBmNxP_story.html

[quote]The structural issues that have slowed construction of a massive new transit hub in Silver Spring are more serious than Montgomery County officials suspected, they said Friday.

County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) said earlier this week that the opening of the Silver Spring Transit Center had been pushed back to June and that the county expected the cost of the project to reach $101 million. But officials now say that they don't know when they will be able to open the facility, which is to bring Metro, MARC, Ride On, taxis and intercity buses to a single site in Silver Spring's revitalized downtown.
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The facility’s structural integrity had already emerged as a concern, and an engineer’s assessment delivered to the county Friday concluded that at least some of the cement was improperly poured and must be redone.[/quote]

Virginia is constantly improving its highway system in NoVA while the Maryland suburbs haven’t seen improvement since constructing 200 years ago.

I’d be fine with higher taxes if it meant than public transit, infrastructure, public safety, and schools in MoCo were world class compared to Fairfax. But they’re not. I’d argue that Fairfax is outperforming MoCo by any metric over the past 25 years. 
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