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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Due to self-sorting, with more centrists fleeing to Fairfax, Frederick and Howard, as well as the fact that way too many MoCoites are way too online and getting fed pretty extreme leftism, the future is going to look a lot like some combination of Portland and Baltimore. The rich areas stay rich but get smaller, the middle class and poor areas get poorer, but there’s microbrew and bike lanes![/quote]

Agree with this for the most part. Certainly the rich areas will stay rich, just shrink. Poor areas will stay poor and grow. Middle class areas will continue to get squeezed out. You can't be so anti-business and succeed. The world is too small now. Businesses can start and be run from anywhere with the technology of today. Moco has lost the built-in advantage of being "in-close" and it is never coming back at scale.[/quote]

MoCo relies entirely in govt jobs too. There is a big push to decentralize the govt and create permanent WFH positions. Who needs to move in expensive MoCo with high taxes anymore if you don't need to be near DC for a govt job? Schools aren't good anymore. Crime is up. [/quote]
That’s the thing. It’s worthwhile to stay and WFH as a Fed if the schools were good. But if they’re not - and the quality is undeniably declining rapidly - there is just zero rationale. If you didn’t even want to leave the area you could just move to Howard Co and save on housing and get access to much better schools. And of course those same opportunities exist all over the country. [/quote]

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