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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No doubt some Amazon employee may find PG to be affordable if they can get over the lack of cool.  (Of course, if some Amazonians start moving in, how long before we will start hearing the whining from certain PG quarters about ‘gentrification’ and ‘inclusion’?)

The reality is that there was no Amazon contest for PG to lose.  It was never a contender.[/quote]

"Lack of cool?"  Since when has someone taken on a mortgage because a place was "cool?"  I bought a house because it was a good location for commuting, but to each his own I guess!

And I keep saying this, but MOST of PG County could not gentrify because most of PG County is NICE.  It is mostly pleasant suburb.  Unless gentrification actually means "replace black people with white people" I do not understand how a lot of the county could "gentrify."

I agree that PG was never a real contender for something like Amazon, although it would have been a great candidate.  We are close to DC, lots of Metro, lots of space, less congested.  But maybe you should occasionally visit PG before posting about it?[/quote]

The weird thing about this post is that it misses that PG has already largely gentrified. And it gentrified by becoming much less white and much more black. The old PG of the 1960s and 1970s was full of very downscale whites and had a police force with KKK ties. [/quote]

Given the low net worths of most blacks, it’s hard to see why a word like “gentrification” is appropriate here. PG just flipped, and most of the schools declined by any objective measure.  [/quote]

The net worths of the black population of PG County is among the highest in the country by density. Nevertheless I agree PG flipped right alongside Baltimore as far as racial makeup. With the housing collapse in 2008 it’s never fully recovered. While DC has gone the exact opposite. [/quote]

Part of the reason why the housing prices are low is that the pool of buyers have comparatively limited financial resources to draw upon, even if they are making decent salaries and have higher net worths than most blacks.  It’s hard to see why one would conclude there has been gentrification, particularly given a student population with achievement levels among the lowest in the state, as opposed to a combination of displacement, white flight, and substitution. [/quote]

It's not gentrified by present DMV standards, but it's much more upscale than it used to be. And for much of the 1990s and 2000s (not sure about 201Xs), black PG was at the median better off than white PG.[/quote]

Yes, because the higher-income whites saw the schools rapidly deteriorating and got out in the 1970s and 1980s.[/quote]

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