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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All those people leaving have 4 or 5 year olds and recently toured their local elementary school.[/quote]

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You can roll your eyes, but that's how things go in our zip (20901).  We did it.  Our neighbors did it.  Our neighbor's neighbor did it.  And so on.  The people who owned the houses before us did it.  It's a great 4-5 year cycle for the realtors.  Young families move in and are typically buying a starter home.  They either just had their first or are about to.  They don't look closely at the schools, and just take on faith there will be a decent enough option available when the time comes.  So yes, you see lots of young bright-eyed families moving in.  There are cute houses, cute parks, and lots of moms with strollers out for a walk.  Once the time to enroll comes along, though, those same young families are paying attention and they realize why the previous owner left once the kids turned five.  They sell the house, move to Bethesda (or just about anywhere with a school that doesn't feel like inner-city poverty) and the cycle continues.   It's a great place, but the public schools can be a serious crap shoot.  There are some pockets where the school is beloved, but the opposite can easily be true just one block away.[/quote]

OK, glad you moved to the home you wanted.  I don't see it. My child goes to school in 20901.  Lots of lovely families stay to savor the neighborhood and our schools.  We stay BECAUSE of the school he goes to.  The only reason to leave would be to get a bigger house and we decided it is more important to go to the right school than to have a bigger house.

Maybe I have not noticed [i]all[/i] of these people moving in and  moving out because they were never an asset to the neighborhood or maybe it is just not happening.    Obviously the OP of this thread just wanted to slam Silver Spring again.

I have no desire to move to Bethesda, I don't want to meet all the people that people on DCUM complain about the type of people you meet in Bethesda -- and the type of people who say they are from Bethesda and just sound like not the people I would like to associate with.

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I'll just assume that you're not in the neighborhood where they're still implementing a busing program, with the kindergartners being bused out of the 'hood. Those are the folks that leave, because it's just not worth the hassle.  And if I'm wrong and you're on the busing side of Flower, I have lots of respect for you - we just weren't up for all of the heavy lifting required of the families who decide to stick it out.  Bethesda is easier in that regard.  I agree that silver spring is a really beautiful place with lots of wonderful families, but every neighborhood within silver spring has its own quirks and those quirks are often reflected in real estate trends (such as the 4-5 year trend I was commenting on).[/quote]

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