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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, I'll bite on this thread.

Speaking as a longtime former resident of 20901 and now a current resident of 20910, Silver Spring is not as bad as the naysayers claim, nor is it an equal to Takoma Park or Bethesda (not that most people in SS would ever want to live in Bethesda).

First of all, Silver Spring is huge. It takes up nearly 1/3 of the county, so a clear definition of what Silver Spring is, needs to be defined.

I'll stick with the Georgia Avenue strip from the D.C. line to 495 for my 2 cents. It's got some great houses, neighborhoods, old shops and nice people who reside in the area. It also attracts miscreants and ne'er do wells who like to commit acts ranging from petty crimes and scaling upwards to rape and murder. Some people like pretend that these facts did not happen or are irrelevant. Some people like to pretend that these acts happen en masse at a daily rate. Neither attitudes are helpful.

Silver Spring is stuck in trying become something but can't since it cannot come up with a solution to its consistent problems that prevents it from becoming what the county prints up on their brochures.

Maybe things will trend better once the demolition project of the purple line finally gets completed and some better businesses start popping up in downtown and outward, but that remains to be seen. Having some family friendly restaurants and shops instead of vape shops, weed dispensaries and nightclubs would be a start. [/quote]

Also a SS Resident for nearly 10 years. I have lived downtown and currently live just outside the Beltway, and I agree. I also used to live in Virginia, and if I could have afforded to buy property in a good area Arlington or Alexandria, that would have been my first choice. Since we were looking in 2016, SS was one of the few affordable places to buy a single-family home that was close enough to DC. There is not as much "wealth" here and most of the people who live here make "modest" incomes (I put these in quotes because compared to the rest of the country, salaries and education level remain high). Most of my neighbors are small business owners, skilled tradespeople, work for NGOs/Feds, or working middle-tier office jobs. I don't have kids, but friends and neighbors who do seem to be happy with the schools.

The downtown area used to be a bit better, but it's been a construction zone for years due to the transit center upgrades and the glacial pace of the purple line construction. There seems to be more turnover with retail and restaurants, and sadly, the stuff that seems to stay are the vape shops :(. Most of the crime appears to be related to car break-ins and package theft. [/quote]

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