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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because it's a small middle class section of a community that is surrounded by large pockets of working class/lower class people who don't have the same resources, and this can cause some stress and conflict.  The more uniiform people's lives are, the nicer the community.   If you are living in chaos due to economics, you bring that into your community- and the higher functioning people have to just live with it.    [/quote]

This is total nonsense.  We have to live with... what, exactly, in PG?  What kind of "chaos" could there possibly be in Bowie?  What on earth are you talking about with "stress and conflict?"  Are you guys so fragile that you cannot bear the thought of living in an adjacent neighborhood to... gasp... poor people?  What kind of ridiculous bullshit is that?  You guys realize that most of the working class and poor people in this area are completely and totally normal and law-abiding, right?  Also, none of this seems to impact Washington, D.C., which is full of homeless people and crime.  That is much more "stress and conflict" than what people in Northern PG are experiencing.

And let's not pretend that Virginia and Montgomery County are heaven.  I lived in Montgomery County, and where I live now is nicer.  My coworker lives in Alexandria and has been hearing gunshots during the night.  And let's not pretend that there aren't pockets of working class people throughout the region.  And there is NOTHING wrong with that.  All people deserve to live in safe communities with decent schools.

I live adjacent to Bowie, in Lanham, an arguably "poorer" community, and let me tell you guys a little secret: it's pretty damn nice, and cheap.  My house, which is beautiful and would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars more in almost any part of the surrounding region, is paid off.  Our area is quiet and has little crime, and is getting more stores and less crime with each passing year.  I take the MARC train to my job in DC and get to work in 35-45 minutes, stress free, metro free, every day.  And there's a MARC stop in Bowie too.  I pay for parochial school tuition, and my child is in a class with 12 other kids, which is not bad at all.  I get to fully fund my 401k and 529 and go on vacation.  I have a degree of financial freedom at my 140k hhi that most of you dream about.

And you know what else?  People in PG County are more friendly and courteous than anywhere else in the region.  It's not some sort of utopia but it's pretty pleasant for a densely populated suburb.  And yes, the vast majority of people are black and Hispanic.  I guess if you don't want to live in a majority minority neighborhood, you are getting what you want elsewhere.  I call the prices you are paying the "black people tax."  But let's not pretend that where you live is actually better, it's not.  There is no chaos here.  Just a Wegmans.[/quote]

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