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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shrug. I don’t know.  You might have 5 coffee shops whereas I have 2.  Who cares.  I assure you I spend roughly the same amount of time in the car as a ward 3 resident as I did a ward 6.  But I can walk around my neighborhood after dark or before sunrise without fear.  The parks don’t reek of pot smoke. When I park my car on the street I don’t look around for car-jackers.  And my kids can walk to school (a public school with great test scores that we didn’t need to lottery into) and I don’t need to worry about them encountering sketchy dudes on the way or being hit by a car.   I truly don’t get the hill smugness having lived both sides of it. Yes my commute downtown was easier from the hill but now I have a lot more WFH flexibility so it totally balances out.

I mean- live there if it makes sense economically for your family.  And make it work.  It will be hard and stressful but possible, and kudos to you.  If it is not making economic sense then just move.  It is not serving your kids if they are above average students, that is for sure. [/quote]

the truth is, Ward 3 is much more expensive than Ward 6, and it’s hard to find houses. Many Ward 6 families would only be able to afford condos, and there are few 3 bedroom condos. So yeah it comes down to money: house in Ward 6 and deal with the rest; cram into a condo; or burbs. AFAIK there is only one neighborhood in MoCo that provides some walkability, good home prices, and an excellent MS/HS - and I’m not divulging the name!! At a certain point, unprooting yourself to move to Silver Spring and the DCC schools seems hard to picture because you’re not gaining that much on the school front. But I do think that as the crime worsens, more Hill families will do it. Of course mortgage rates make it harder too.

TL;DR: money is a big factor keeping people on the Hill. [/quote]

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