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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]This is OP. The linked houses look great to me. Why is this so much less expensive than what I've been looking at in Arlington and Vienna? What am I missing?[/quote]

1. The schools are bad, very bad. Everyone avoids the Silver Spring schools unless they can't afford anything else.

2. The jobs are in DC and in VA. There are very few jobs in Montgomery County and none on the horizon. There are so many commuters from MD to VA now that its almost impossible. The reserve commute is wide open. This is hurting the east and west.

3. Taxes are more of a problem now unless you are super rich. MD and Montgomery County taxes are higher and now that you can't deduct them its a bigger hit. Hoping that the Dems will repeal the tax bill.

4. Crime. Poverty has been out of DC and landed in Montgomery County. There is a concentration of no to low income housing in Silver Spring. Gangs are active in Silver Spring, Wheaton and Gaithersburg.

5. County revenue is not healthy. The county is losing tax revenue, property values are stagnate, no new businesses or losing businesses, and the population is shifting to be poorer. This means that county taxes will have to increase or services will need to be cut. [/quote]

This is laughable! We and lots of very well educated people live in Silver Spring and think the kids get a good education. The kids' peers in these schools have the same values as us -I would not want my kids to go to a Bethesda/Chevy Chase school, and I can afford to live there. [/quote]

What “values” are those? Slumming it in Silver Spring, yet making sure others know you could afford Bethesda?  All that suggests is that you like having more money than the other parents at your kids’ school.[/quote]

DP here.  Your post demonstrates the lack of exactly the sort of values I appreciate here among my neighbors in Silver Spring. No one's "slumming" it here in our well kept middle class neighborhood. People are friendly, down to earth, and look out for each other. We're not poverty stricken but on the other hand there's no race to keep up with the Joneses.

The only reason PP told you she could afford to live in more expensive neighborhoods if she wanted is you claimed no one sends their kids to SS schools except when they don't have enough money to move elsewhere or go to private. Which just isn't true.  As those of us who actually live in SS know.[/quote]

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