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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm black and a DC native, I'll chime in.

Bowie is very desirable for a lot of well to do blacks. I grew up in Chevy Chase DC, and it didn't bother my mom or I, but my dad felt that our neighborhood, and the surrounding areas were too white. This isn't a racist thing, this is a matter of comfort driven by his life experiences. He was born in the late 40's, and he has memories of getting pulled over and put in jail for being mistaken for a robbery suspect, going to school in Boston and not being able to go to certain neighborhoods because they would beat up blacks, being called a ****** to his face more times than he can count, and white doctors refusing to shake his hand or call him "doctor" when he was a young freshly minted physician. The folks in Chevy chase DC weren't like this when I was growing up, but I just don't think he ever learned to feel comfortable living in a 90%+ white neighborhood. A lot of his friends, other college educated well to do blacks, lived in Bowie at the time and I always stereotyped it as a place for well to do blacks. This was 30+ years ago, but I would believe that the same holds true to this day. Thus, you get a nice pocket of demand there.

In addition to the comfort aspect, when I was growing up there was a solid contingent of black families that didn't want to send their kids to city schools, even Wilson, because they were afraid that some of the less well to do kids would tempt them into gangs etc despite their relative affluence. Bowie served a nice purpose for some of the black folk that thought along these lines as well.  [/quote]

I appreciate this insight. I live in Crofton, and I love Bowie. Our church is in Bowie, we love Allen Pond, plenty of convenient shopping in Bowie, and of course it’s easy to hop on 50 and get to DC or Annapolis. It’s one of those things where I wish Bowie and Crofton both had better reputations, but then again it’s fine if people turn up their noses because we don’t want Bowie and Crofton overrun by snobby DCUM types who would ruin it![/quote]

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