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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is this person who keeps claiming white flight is going to Howard County.  I've lived in DC on and off for 15 years, in the city and in the suburbs, and have never even met anyone who lives in Howard County let alone someone willing to do that commute.  A handful of colleagues live in Anne Arundel County for specific school options, but this idea that a large number of Montgomery County residents will flee that far is unlikely.  [/quote]

Search the real estate thread for Howard County - many posts from people inquiring about Howard County as they consider it vs Mo Co for where to move to.[/quote]

I don't doubt there are people who want to live in Howard County.  What I doubt is that people who have actively chosen an urban, walkable, diverse, neighborhood like Takoma Park or Silver Spring are going to up and move 45 minutes away because they fear the coming Brown menace. [/quote]

As a side note, I am curious how the demographics of Takoma Park will change in the upcoming years.  There isn't really room to build more affordable housing (I'm not counting the new hipster-attracting development in the downtown area), and housing prices keep going up.  It does attract higher-income, diverse families.   [/quote]

People that chose North Bethesda, Rockville, Gaithersburg, Clarksburg, etc... may not have wanted a walkable urban lifestyle but that is what is being shoved down everyone's throats. I know when I moved here 14yrs ago, it was to move to the SUBURBS.  The growth in the area is absurd.  High rise condo/apartments up and down 355.  Gaithersburg used to be farmland and they are doing nothing but build build.  And it isn't single family homes on 1/4 acre lots.  It is mega mansions on 1/8 acre lot or rows of town homes or blocks of condos.  An area that a normal suburb would have maybe 40 homes now has at least 100 homes.  And the county continues to say apartment dwellers do not have school aged kids.  So condos and apartments yield ZERO child growth when they attempt to figure out how many kids will be at a school in say 5 years.  This is because the developers do not want to pay for schools so they continue the "non child dwelling" building and they line the pockets of those doing the surveys.  It is such as scam.  It is so overcrowded.  10 years and our elementary school went from 2 open classrooms to 8 portables outside.  People want to move to areas that have homes in normal spaces of 1/4 acre or more.  Howard County has that.  [/quote]

It is not only a scam, it may be illegal. Write to the Council and to Hogan. They are building without any regard for infrastructure (schools, roads, police, water, etc). [/quote]

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