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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both MoCo and Arlington are fine places to live, with nice homes, good schools, decent suburban amenities.   Each with their boosters, who like to pretend (on DCUM) that small differences are fundamental.

But to build on a point made earlier, Montgomery County is part of the state of Maryland, which in many key respects - demographics (and diversity), political registration (and vote margin for Dem presidential candidates), urbanization level, religious observation (and church attendance) -- tends to be more like California than is Virginia, where Arlington is situated.   Which means that state-level politics and policies -- which affect even blessed enclaves like Bethesda or McLean -- are less likely in Maryland to be hijacked by ugly cultural wedge issues like trans access or 'woke' book-burnings or Jan 6 denial.   Maryland, whose population is overwhelmingly dominated by the DC and Baltimore metro areas, has a political orientation that's basically like northeastern or western states, and migrants from those areas feel very much at home in Maryland communities.   But while Virginia may have voted blue in the last four Presidential elections, its political orientation is essentially even (as characterized by 538.com before the 2020 and 2021 elections), it's still a state in transition, and the educated achievers of northern Virginia are still a minority in the state.    That might sound good and non-partisan in theory, but it also means there's a lot of lively/contentious battle for the state-wide political-intellectual terrain.

So if OP's family really likes the 'feel' of life in the Bay Area, it's more likely to feel similar in Montgomery County MD.   If they routinely look around them on the Peninsula and say "OMG all this woke craziness -- we've got to move out of California" then Arlington County VA is probably a better bet.

That's just an objective observation.   If someone were posting to say "we're blissfully happy here in the suburbs of Atlanta/Charlotte/Dallas and will be moving to DC but don't know if we'd prefer Arlington or MoCo" I'd note exactly the opposite.  [/quote]

Very accurate. Nice job[/quote]
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! NOT AT ALL. Arlington is one of the most woke places in the country.  [/quote]

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