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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Why so many folks on here against the area? Not asking to be argumentative, looking for some solid info from people in the area. [/quote]

PG is majority African American and parts of it are relatively poor.  Property values are generally lower than in other area jurisdictions which impacts tax revenue and school funding.  As you would expect, poorer localities suffer from higher crime rates.  A lot of the negativity here, IMO, is knee jerk reaction to Fox (and other) news reports of incidents of crime "in PG County" and the broad paint brush is applied to the County as a whole.  There are very nice parts of it too, certainly.  Spending time there and making up your own mind is really the way to go if you're thinking of moving there.

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So it is a vicious circle. The poor cannot afford houses with high property values, therefore revenue from property taxes is too low to maintain schools, and so even in Maryland we have a large segment of population who receive a very poor education. Gingrich thought he could solve the problem of ghetto education by making kindergarteners do manual labor in school. Most Americans are OK with this and I am amazed that nobody is even angered by this inequality[/quote]

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