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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We moved from Montgomery county to pg county. It was not the best choice. We live in an upper middle class African American, city, so not the "hood." Even then, there is not much diversity when it comes to ethnicity. Everyone in the neighborhood is black. The school is made up of 95 percent African Americans. My child asks why there aren't any white children in her grade. There is no good shopping mall for teens to hang out at. There are only strip malls. People ride around in bmw's yet send their kids to the crappy public schools. You can drive around, end up on one street that is very sketchy, then the next street, it's very farm like with actual farms and then the next street over, it is city like. It is just very odd. Sure you get a McMansion for a better price out here but you end up compromising on everything else. [/quote]

Yikes. Where do you live? We moved from Aspen Hill to Greenbelt, and had the opposite experience. [/quote]

Yeah, there are definitely parts of the county that are like that.  However, there are many parts of the county that are not like that.  In particular, northern PG County (Bowie, Laurel, Greenbelt, Beltsville, Glenndale) are very different.  This part of the county, while still majority minority, is far more diverse.  There is a black majority, but large hispanic and white minorities with a small Asian minority mixed in.  We have found it to be pretty diverse.

Bowie Town Center and the newly rebuilt Town Center at Laurel are both the new style outdoor malls.  Not great places for the teens to hang out in the cold weather, but still an option.  Bowie Town Center has a separate building that is the food court and it has screens with music videos playing.  In Laurel, when the weather is nice, Laurel Lakes is a nice placed to hang out and it is across the street from the new Town Center shopping mall, so they can hang there.  Greenbelt has Beltway Plaza which is an actual older style indoor mall.

What part of the county do you live in?[/quote]

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