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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Silver spring is a sad place to these eyes, you can basically fit 99% ofthe residents into a few simple buckets:

Black people happy they don't live PG 
Latino people who made it out of Langley Park 
White people who couldn't afford Bethesda and pretend they didn't want to anyway 
DC residents who lost the lottery

The few hipsters are the white kids who grew up there and couldn't pass as hood but never pulled it together to graduate college and get a haircut but are afraid to actually move into the city.

Dear pp,

Why do you feel the need to put people down who don't make the same choice as you do?  After all if we all wanted to live in Bethesda or Potomac or wherever you claim is 'the best' there might not have been room for you!  I live in DSS and love it.  But, I recognize the fact that not everyone likes Silver Spring and that's okay.  Yes, we *could* afford to live in Bethesda but we choose not to do so!  Why is this so hard to believe?[/quote]

Dear silver spring personality type number 3

I don't believe you. [/quote]

The many families who pay $700k and up for houses in Silver Spring prove that PP is wrong.  There are many people who choose SS over Bethesda at those prices.[/quote]

You're delusional, yes a small handful of homes sell for 700k in silver spring in the like 2 best neighborhoods which is the entry point for the more modest Bethesda homes but if you think SS is close to that level your just crazy, there is about a 450k difference (over double) price difference in the median value indexs. Yes the home prices are a little higher closer to DTSS but the prices are a lot higher closer to Downrown Bethesda too.

Even conceding your point that there is a small handful in silver spring that could afford it they boil down to a very small group that decided that they didn't want to spend all of their money on an entry level home when they could top of the pile in a lesser area. Doesn't sound noble to me.

[url]http://www.zillow.com/bethesda-md/home-values/[/url]
[url]http://www.zillow.com/silver-spring-md/home-values/[/url][/quote]

I'm not the PP, but your snide reply nicely illustrates why we didn't want to live in Bethesda.   We did look, at a few houses, but  it just felt crazy to spend nearly a million on places that were depressingly small and out of date.  We're a family of three and will likely go private for middle and high school so it makes no sense for us to spend excessively on housing, especially if it means living near people like you.  Who gives a shit about meeting your definition of noble?

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