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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t care what you people say - that’s freaking gorgeous. [/quote]

yeah but it's in gaithersburg[/quote]
Another racist. You voted for Trump, right? They look gorgeous from the outside too! Look at new home prices in Urbana, but that is probably ok since Urbana is more white?
https://www.zillow.com/homes/new_homes/16111793_plid/globalrelevanceex_sort/39.387121,-77.22951,39.323541,-77.339373_rect/12_zm/0_mmm/[url][/quote]

For crying out loud, there are reasons beyond racism that people might not want to live in Gaithersburg.  It is far from DC and jobs in DC and Tysons/NoVa for that matter.  It is similarly far from most of the attractions that make DC unique and exciting.  There aren't many cultural attractions, highly regarded restaurants, or other things that make you say 'wow, I really want to be in Gaithersburg.'

Sorry, if we aren't all as excited about Crown and Rio as you are.[/quote]

I assume most of these 'why would anyone not want to live in DC' posters like you are transplants to the area so you are all pressed to be in D.C. I work in DC, live in MD, and would love a job in MD.[/quote]

You are helping prove my point.  You said you would love a job in MD.  The problem is that most jobs aren't in MD.  [b]You have decided you are willing to accept the longer commute.  Many people aren't and being unwilling to have the longer commute doesn't make you racist[/b].

And I never said I would only live in DC. In fact, I now live in MD, just much closer in than Gaithersburg.[/quote]

Then why is 270 and 495 always so terrible? Where are these ppl going and coming from if not the suburbs?

The truth is most ppl commute and most ppl move to the suburbs bc you get more for your money. While you might hate driving, 270 in the morning says many, many ppl are willing to deal with the commute. [/quote]

[b]Most people do not commute to DC. [/b]

Most people move to the outer suburbs because they don't like smog, traffic, crime and crazy intense people.

They like green space, hiking trails (on the woods, not on the street like Capital Crescent Trail), neighborhoods and cookouts with friends. [/quote]

Most commutes here are suburb to suburb.

Most of the STEM/IT/Biotech jobs are all in the suburbs.  Same for most of the banking related jobs.

DC's population is dwarfed by the suburbs. MoCo, PG Fairfax are each roughly  50% bigger than DC's population.[/quote]

It’s so clear neither of you PPs know anything about the traffic or commuting. I commute from Clarksburg to DC. The traffic gets worse at two particular exits (one in Gaithersburg and one in Rockville going toward DC and VA). If most ppl do not commute to DC then why are people saying most of the jobs are in DC. People commute to DC, get over it. You see the Maryland tags throughout DC. Someone said there were no jobs in the suburb and now you are saying there are. Well which is it? If the majority of commutes were suburb to suburb then 270 and 495 wouldn’t be a nightmare. You don’t see a lot of ppl getting off 270, just merging on.

And realize that most ppl are moving to the suburb bc most ppl don’t want to spend a large amount on a small space just to live in the city. DC has green space, trails, neighborhoods, and cookouts. What it doesn’t have is affordable and realistic housing options. That’s what the suburbs have. [/quote]

Most people are not commuting to DC.  If you have been reading greater washington, WaPo and a number of other places, the refrain again and again is that most commutes are within the suburbs.  About 400k people commute into DC, and there are 3.3 million jobs in the metro area.  You can go look up the American Community Survey data yourself.

I'm not saying this to minimize your frustration, but to note that most of the employment is not in the city itself.

This data is old, but you can see commutes visually here:
Fairfax commuters http://bigbytes.mobyus.com/commute.aspx?County=59&State=51&MinMiles=0&MaxMiles=29&MaxCoV=0.8&CountyType=home
Montgomery County http://bigbytes.mobyus.com/commute.aspx?County=31&State=24&MinMiles=0&MaxMiles=29&MaxCoV=0.8&CountyType=home

What is interesting is that even with the old data, you have more MD commuters going to VA, than vice versa.  I would imagine that things look a bit different with Tysons and the rt28 corrordor being even more developed than they were from that 2006-2010 dataset.
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Here's Fairfax county's data from 2017

Of those who work outside of the county, a little more than a third are commuting to DC.  Nearly as many go to Alexandria/Arlington.  The last 1/3 go to PWC, MD and Loudoun.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/demographics/commuting-patterns

Here is MoCo:

https://mwejobs.maryland.gov/admin/gsipub/htmlarea/uploads/Montgomery_WorkforceRegion_Commuting_Patterns.pdf

Less than 20% of their commuters go into DC.

In Frederick, more people work in Gaithersberg than DC! In fact more than 8x more Frederick residents commute to Montomery County than they do to DC.  Only 2.7% of frederick residents commute to DC.

https://mwejobs.maryland.gov/admin/gsipub/htmlarea/uploads/Frederick_WorkforceRegion_Commuting_Patterns.pdf

MD's data is all here:  https://www.dllr.state.md.us/lmi/wiacommuting/

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