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[quote=Anonymous]I have lived in PG County for 20 years and I can say that most of what you've ready above is misinformation from people who have never lived in the area and many have never even been in PG County.  While the schools are not as good as the wealthier counties, there are some schools within the county that are respectable.  Yes, not on the level of the other counties, but still respectable.  The county really has four very different regions that have different characteristics.  The area inside the beltway, with the exception of a few pockets, is where the high crime statistics come from.  But once you get outside the beltway, the amount of crime is not that different from many of the other counties.  Outside the beltway you have three distinct areas, North PG (including Laurel, Beltsville, Greenbelt and Bowie), Central PG (Upper Marlboro, Lanham, Landover, Mitchelville) and Southern PG (Camp Springs, Suitland, Clinton).  Northern PG is much more like Howard County, it is more suburban, slighty more diverse of race and a bit more upper income.  Central PG has a higher density of African American including some of the wealthiest and more exclusive predominantly AA communities but also having a number of lower income neighborhoods (quite a mix).  Southern PG is slightly more rural and conservative than the rest of the county.

As the one PP pointed out, PG County has more reasonable housing prices compared to the rest of the area.  Just look through DCUM and you'll see so many complaints about how you have to have unusually high incomes to live "middle class" lives in the other areas and you'll see where the regional inflation is.  There is a premium for living in NoVa and Montgomery County.  Housing prices and COL is generally more reasonable in PG County and there isn't nearly as much difference (other than schools) as residents from those areas think.

As I said, I've lived in PG County for 20 years and have many friends in NoVa and MoCo and frankly, their lives and ours are not that different other than I have about 1000 sf more for the same price as they have.[/quote]

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