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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm assuming the folks who don't believe large chunks of MoCo was safer 20-30 years ago didn't live here at the time.  And, it *is* sad to see for people like me who have lived here all my life.

I will say that Downtown Silver Spring is safer than it was 15 years ago.  City Place was not at all ok before the revitalization.  DTSS still requires a significant police presence at night which is unfortunate.  [/quote]

Agree 1000%. Clearly, many of these posters did not grow up here in Montgomery County. I grew up near White Oak 35 years ago. Always felt safe there. We also went to Wheaton Regional any time of day (of course not in the middle of the night) and again it was a perfectly safe and comfortable place to spend time with family and friends. Sorry, this county has changed and not for the better. Almost everyone I grew up with and still lives in the area has moved to the western side of the county. Even my parents, who were long time hold outs, moved out of the White Oak area ten years ago. [/quote]

How safe you and your friends feel is a subjective measure highly influenced by whether your neighbors look like you. But clearly not "everybody" moved out of White Oak because it has 1000 kids in its middle school. They're just mostly not white anymore.[/quote]

Well, mostly it had to do with crime and the fact that a lot of the stores and businesses they used to frequent closed up or moved to other parts of the county. There was a large synagogue right off of Lockwood Drive that moved out to Olney because their congregants moved away from there. [/quote]

Have you been to the east county lately? It's not a deserted wasteland. There are plenty of people living there. It's just that many don't look like they were born in the US to parents with an ethnic origin in Europe.

Nor is DTSS Fort Apache, the Bronx.[/quote]

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