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Okay?  I’m that PP and I’m not white.  I’m scared of myself?  Nope.  But I do dislike the overcrowding in my neighborhood.  I dislike that my kids’ schools have to spend SO much money on ESOL, at the expense of other programs, like Art and Music. I dislike that our once family-friendly park gets overrun by people drinking later at night (yes, we neighbors have called the Park Police and filed complaints, but the MoCO is not very responsive).  I dislike that we’ve had more hit and runs where people run into your car and just leave because they are driving illegally and/or don’t have car insurance.

Look, we live in an area in MoCO that was a nice, family-friendly place to live and raise kids.  In the last 12 years, we have had a HUGE influx of illegal immigrants from all over the world.  And it has led to a decline in my own standard of living, in my own neighborhood.  That makes me sad.  [/quote]

I'm sure the OP will call you names and demand research before she acknowledges that you have a point.[/quote]

In fact, yes, I will. That's what this thread is about, and I'm sorry it pisses people off so much to have to actually show that their opinions are grounded in fact.

Yes, neighborhoods change socioeconomically - that's neither here nor there. I'm sure a lot of people who love to buy giant houses in SE DC but can't because of "those" people.  [/quote]

What? No one has to show you a damn thing.  Remember, you are the one who opened this thread.  You are the one making arguments and asking for understanding. You are the one throwing tantrums like a little baby demanding people agree with you.  And now you're stomping your little feet because it didn't go the way you wanted.

And now let's translate your second paragraph into straight English.  "I don't care about your property values, your children's schooling, your quality of life.  I have research! and research is more important than you.  Go away with your stupid experiences and life stories.  So what that "those" people affected your life, you aren't really all that important." [/quote]

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OP has quickly become one of the more tiresome posters on DCUM.  What a moron.  I’m done presenting “research” to the OP, as if s/he somehow makes the decisions.  All I have to do is take a drive through the neighborhood to see with my own eyes the damage illegal immigration has done to our community.  [/quote]
DP. It's the same with my neighborhood in lower Mont County. Practically half the school is ESOL, and[b] investors are buying houses and building them out to rent basement apartments to a second family[b].[/b] It's probably one of the only places within 10 miles of DC where you can buy a 5-bedroom house on a 1/2 acre  for $450,000. [/quote]

FTR, this is currently ILLEGAL in Montgomery County.  You can't rent out a basement apartment, unless you actually live in the home.  Unfortunately the county doesn't enforce any of its own rules, and chooses to look the other way in these situations, so landlords are able to rake in tons of cash (cash only payments, so no recorded income!) on these units.

Our neighborhood association tried to do something about these 'investors', but it's almost impossible to prove who lives in those homes when most of the residents are 'undocumented'.  You end up with 7 cars parked in front of the house.  Construction work that is not up to code.  Seven kids attending school, whereas in reality, it should be less than that.  Trash all over the yard.

We also have homes that investors have purchased to build up a second story to do this type of rental.  Of course, no rental license.

We're not even that close to a Metro.  Maybe it used to be that these residents needed public transport, but in our neighborhood, they seem to have multiple cars.  So being close to public transport is not a necessity anymore.  [/quote]
I wonder if we live in the same neighborhood. It used to be you could drive up the block, and if a car was approaching you, you just pulled to the side. Now it's car-to-car parked along both sides of the street, so if you are driving up and someone is driving down, there's nowhere to pull to the side. You can't even back into someone's driveway to clear room, since they are are taken. I have had to back up a full block to let someone pass. It is very apparent that two, and perhaps three, families are living in many of these houses.

As far as the illegality of multiple families living in the SFHs, our association has had no luck enforcing the laws. MoCo knows where all the illegal immigrants are settling, and they go very easy on them - again an example of liberals putting the interests of illegals ahead of Americans.

On a lesser concern, the homes are being poorly maintained. Grass and weeds grow unattended, and all sorts of toys and kids scooters litter the front lawn. There are old, banged-up cars all over. Bit the main problem is the school, which is the lowest in the entire county and overwhelming populated by non-English speakers. Single families won't buy here for that reason, and investors are scooping up houses and bargain prices and converting them - illegally - I to multiple-dwelling units. There was an arrest in a nearby house, and they found 15 people living there.[/quote]

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