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[quote=Anonymous]It is hard to discuss PG County without bringing up the social, economic and crime issues that persist in the lower SES AA community.

I owned a gorgeous home for 3 years that in a lower income, predominately AA community.  My neighborhood was a small lower-middle class enclave surrounded by a vast ghetto.  9% of the kids at the local junior high could read at grade level.

I moved there with an open mind and I quickly realized that I was never going to feel safe there. I had my car stolen and broken into numerous times (a ten year old Japanese coupe), numerous attempted house break ins, regular shoot outs on the street, drug deals at the children's play ground on a daily basis, and of course the gang rape at the local high school dance that kids took pictures of but no one called the police because "the bitch was drunk".   This was in the "nice part of town" with the coop nursery school and artisanal coffee house.

I lost over $150,000 in that house but it was a small price to pay to escape.  Never again.

I now live with middle class people in a run down house with a 65 year old oven and vinyl flooring.  It's fantastic.

TL: DR: It's better to get the worst house in the best neighborhood you can afford, than the best house in a bad neighborhood.  
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