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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]This is OP. The linked houses look great to me. Why is this so much less expensive than what I've been looking at in Arlington and Vienna? What am I missing?[/quote]

1. The schools are bad, very bad. Everyone avoids the Silver Spring schools unless they can't afford anything else.

2. The jobs are in DC and in VA. There are very few jobs in Montgomery County and none on the horizon. There are so many commuters from MD to VA now that its almost impossible. The reserve commute is wide open. This is hurting the east and west.

3. Taxes are more of a problem now unless you are super rich. MD and Montgomery County taxes are higher and now that you can't deduct them its a bigger hit. Hoping that the Dems will repeal the tax bill.

4. Crime. Poverty has been out of DC and landed in Montgomery County. There is a concentration of no to low income housing in Silver Spring. Gangs are active in Silver Spring, Wheaton and Gaithersburg.

5. County revenue is not healthy. The county is losing tax revenue, property values are stagnate, no new businesses or losing businesses, and the population is shifting to be poorer. This means that county taxes will have to increase or services will need to be cut. [/quote]
1.  Actually that isn’t correct. Schools are fine. Although not uniformly so. I actually have a family friend whose son chose to go to Blair over his neighborhood school B-CC.
2. If you work in dc the best commute option depends on where in dc. If you are on the red line between Judiciary and ft totten coming from NVA is not convenient. Transferring is a real time suck and not having to do that has real value. Or if you work in Shaw/U street/Columbia heights and drive NVA is also less convenient. 
3. Agree that the SALT limitation makes MoCo less attractive 
4. Poverty will never be out of DC because of the way they have chosen to concentrate it in large affordable housing communities (rather than smaller communities spread out throughout the city). To the extent that this is true I would say dc’s working class has moved to P.G. County because MoCo is really not that cheap. 
5. I have no idea about the county taxes. I will say though I think taxes are going to go up throughout the region to deal with increased population. [/quote]

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