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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do MoCo residents even create threads like this about Nova? I think that speaks volumes. [/quote]

Right, NoVa people are massively insecure, which is why they create these threads about MoCo.[/quote]

You guys are both insecure, uncultured suburbanites. MoCo is an increasingly poor dump, and NoVa is heinous suburban sprawl. You guys both suck lol[/quote]

I posted above. I’m in MoCo (Silver Spring). Spent a fair bit of the last two weeks in NoVa visiting with friends and family for holiday gatherings. If I could do it all again in terms of buying a home, schools, etc, I’d go with NoVa or Howard County. MoCo has gone downhill and the council seems committed to undermining the quality of life for middle class residents.

Bigger picture I like that MD and MoCo are largely blue but there’s a tipping point at which “progressive” policies just mean more crime, more trash all over, crumbling infrastructure, schools falling apart under the weight of the result of less tax income, massive tax breaks to developers just to build in the county, no job market, and an influx of kids in public schools over the last 20 years who need more support than the county can truly afford to provide. “Progressive” has meant an erosion of the quality of life and it hits middle and working class people the hardest.

Gives me no joy to say I made the wrong move when I settled in MoCo. And maybe I’d feel differently if I was wealthy, living in Chevy Chase or Bethesda or Potomac and my kids were in private. Those people seem really happy. [/quote]

This x 1,000. MoCo boosters are mostly blue bloods who send their kids to private schools, go to country clubs, and can isolate themselves from all the county’s problems. For actual people who work for a living and don’t have inherited wealth and who have to go grocery shopping, go to a gym, go shopping and not have an assistant shop for us, etc., the quality of life has gotten noticeably worse over the past 10 years.

Ask yourself this. Are Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, or McLean nicer, have less crime, better schools, and have more amenities than they did in the 1990s? Can you say the same thing about Silver Spring, Wheaton, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, etc.?

The answers to all the VA burbs is a resounding yes. [/quote]

You guys nailed it. For wealthy people who stick to Bethesda / Potomac / Chevy Chase, all is gravy. The W schools are elite, downtown Bethesda has gotten nicer, Chevy Chase is crystallized in time with its beautiful historic character, and the country clubs are still there humming along.

It’s the middle class that has evaporated in MoCo. Those that remain are left with lesser quality schools, more crime, and higher taxes to support a growing poor population in need of heavy services.

HoCo, and to a lesser extent Frederick and AA have essentially taken over as the go to middle class areas of Maryland post MoCo’s decline.  [/quote]

Hopefully it will be slow going in MoCo…maybe a lawsuit will get filed to gum up the works for a few years.  We liked underbuying as far as housing because it allowed us financial freedom to do other things, but I think that we will move to a better part of the county sooner than we had planned.[/quote]

lol. This is how MoCo ended up stagnating. [/quote]

No, MoCo stagnated when economic policy became fixated on bailing out land speculators who overpaid for land. The council has spent far more effort and money on bailouts for real estate companies who paid too much for land than it has on attracting businesses and jobs. If the heart of your economic policy is bailouts you’re going to stagnate and nothing will be affordable. Sidney Katz, Will Jawando, and Kristen Mink get this. The rest of them don’t. [/quote]

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