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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bethesda is where souls go to die. Rockville, Frederick, anything thing is better than heinous and hoitey Bethesda with  its zero parking, congestion, and office park overload. Blah blah blah. It’s the Arlington of MoCo.[/quote]

Oh yes, the drug & opioid epidemic ground zero, crime riddled Frederick is MUCH better than Bethesda.  
I'm sure given the option of a free home in either location, you'd far prefer to live in Frederick, right? 🤣

Oh, and please spare us the part where you extolle all of the virtues of Frederick, ok?
I grew up there.

Nothing, absolutely nothing you can say would make Frederick a better place to raise your family than Bethesda.

Any place is better than Frederick to raise a family... ANY PLACE.

I live in Rockville now, so I have no dog in this Silver Spring fight, but for you to make such a ridiculous, laughable and untrue statement, shows that you have ZERO clue of what you speak of.

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It sounds like you have a lot of unresolved trauma in your family of origin. That absolutely can color your opinion of a place. I live in Takoma Park, and like most people here, I would never ever want to live in Bethesda. We have friends in Frederick who have kids who love it. The parks are great and the college town vibe is a positive. I also like Columbia, MD and Severna Park. Rockville, too, checks a lot of boxes. [/quote]

Nah, Frederick is one of those places that has a picture pretty facade, but is completey fake.

I'm not the PP, but I agree with their sentiment.

Frederick tries to put on a quaint, small-town, quirky, neighborhood vibe, however if you scratch just slightly under the surface, you'd be shocked at how abhorrent of a place it really is.

I would never, ever send my child to college in/near Frederick, as the drug culture starts very early -- not in high school, but in middle school and sometimes shockingly, elementary school.
It is so out of control, there's no way to get away from it easily if you grow up there, because so many parents send siblings are involved in it.
 
Anyone who has lived there for at least 30-40 years and has generational family members living there too, has most likely had a family member affected by drugs (usually one of their parents or their children). 
Drugs & crime go hand in hand (crimes to get money to get their drugs) and it affects all ages there, young & old.  It's really sad.

My husband is a defense attorney up in Frederick, and he's constantly disturbed by the cases he receives with heartbreakingly young clients getting arrested.

It really affects him deep down that these kids are so young, fresh and could have potentially had the brightest of futures (if they'd grown up somewhere else), as well as because we have kids the same age as some of his clients (which is what made him get into defense in the first place).

He firmly believes that every child should have the opportunity to dream big and do whatever they want in life, yet growing up in Frederick doesn't usually provide them with a great chance for that bright future, because:

1. The drugs are everywhere.
2. They are easily accessible.
3. It's absolutely effortless to get sucked in.

I truly hope your friends love it in Frederick and their lives are never touched by the unbridled drug epidemic that runs rampant and has infiltrated & permeate Frederick, because it's very rare for families who live there to come out totally unscathed by drugs.

Please, please make sure that if your friends have children of any age, that their eyes are wide open and they start talking to those kids *early and often* about drugs, because even if it seems that their kids "would never do drugs" it doesn't mean that their kid's best friend won't try drugs.
It's no secret that a teen's best friend has a lot more influence over your kid than you do.
A lot more influence.

I'll end this on this last statement. 
The last place any family want to end up is in my husband's office - retaining his services, because every family comes in with the same shocked, bewildered & panicked look of "how did we ever get here??".

Sigh, sorry to get off topic, back to the topic at hand.

Like the PP, [b]I too don't have a dog in the Bethesda/SS argument.[/b]
Honestly, both seem to be really nice places and they both have redeeming qualities & places.
I guess it really comes down to person preference, doesn't it?

However, I don't believe it's necessary to trash Bethesda because you live in Silver Spring, and vice versa.

Why does it have to be one or the other, why can't people appreciate both places?
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Way to hijack the thread[/quote]

Thanks for the memoir, Frederick lady.[/quote]

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