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I'm talking about the neighborhood near Kings Crossing local park. The park address is: 14221 Kings Crossing Blvd, Boyds, MD 20841.  Her address is Boyds. [/quote]

Look at a map. That's Germantown in all but zip code. There's a tiny corner of the 20841 zip code that sticks out into Germantown, not quite to Germantown Road. I mean, if you (or they) want to say that they live in Boyds, that's fine, but most people think of it as Germantown.

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I have no dog in this fight as I don't live there. Just telling you what that postal office says. It's Boyds. Whether or not others think it should be Germantown instead of Boyds isn't really relevant. [/quote]

You know what, as long as you get the numeric zip code right, the post office doesn't really care what word you put next to MD.  You can address mail to Silver Spring, 20902 or Wheaton 20902 and it will get there.  I'm sure you can send it to Boyds, 20841 or Germantown, 20841 and it will get there.  There are places in this country where towns are towns and have actual borders and it matters what town you live in.  Maryland is not one of those places.  We have municipalities with defined borders (City of Rockville, Town of Kensington, etc) and we have large swaths of "unincorporated County" that people can argue forever about what they should be called.  Much of the unincorporated eastern county is "Silver Spring" from downtown Silver Spring to much further north.  There is no official right/wrong about these things.  It's like fruits and vegetables.  There's no official distinction, it's just how people think of them that matters (and sometimes people disagree).  [/quote

Agreed. the zipcode is what matters. Anyway, my whole point wasn't to go on about the Boyds vs Germantown thing. My original point was to tell PP that there are nice areas besides Darnestown that feed into NW. One example is the Boyds (or to some, Germantown area near the Kings Crossing Park) that goes to NW high school. Spark Matsunaga, Diamond, and Ronald McNair are highly rated schools (in addition to Darnestown) that all end up in NW. Northwest isn't a dump that some of the people here like to claim.  [/quote]

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