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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I think it's more about being priced out honestly. There are parts of MoCo that doesn't have much crime, but it's more expensive.  And the better schools are also in the more expensive areas.[/b]

I also moved out of a hcol area out west because we got priced out.    So, I  moved to a "cheaper" area like MoCo for the more affordable home prices and schools.   :D

As for taxes, Frederick county tax is very similar to MoCo tax.

I thought about moving to Frederick when I retire only because the housing is cheaper.[/quote]

Us too, we ended up moving to eastern MoCo because it's cheaper![/quote]

This. Priced out doesn't mean priced out; to MC and UMC white people it often means that the house available to them comes with schools that have high FARMS. If a family is making enough to afford a home that costs $800K, likely they are educated professionals and, whether they will admit it or not, are not looking to have a school with 40% FARMS or higher come with their $800K house.

We too have moved northward as circumstances have changed--when we were just married we lived in Silver Spring, when kids were born and we needed more space we moved to Gaithersburg, and when the kids entered school and with telework we moved to Howard County.[/quote]
This is 100% true. We have a HHI of about 320k and our 850k housing budget just didn’t go far enough in MoCo. The houses in our budget in the strongest school clusters were small and outdated, and the ones that were larger (we were looking for 2500-3000 sq ft) and didn’t require a lot of work were in school clusters that we weren’t thrilled with. We didn’t want to compromise on the house or schooling, and given our income and budget we knew there were places where we wouldn’t have to, so we moved. [/quote]

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