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[quote=Anonymous]It took me awhile to figure out North Potomac. If you look on a map 20878 is a very strange shape. NP and 20878 was made up of areas in Darnestown, Potomac, Gaithersburg, and Rockville. The school clusters can be Wootten, Northwest, Quince Orchard and even a few zone to Churchill. Where I live, we are surrounded by Potomac and Darnestown. I actually drive through the real Darnestown (or at least I see the sign welcome to Darnestown) when I go to the grocery store which comes up as being in Gaithersburg (Kentlands). Our neighbors on the main street our neighborhood comes off are zoned for Churchill while we are zoned to Wootten. We are both much closer to Quince Orchard. If you live closer to the Darnestown/Potomac area it is larger lots and more rural suburbs. The Rockville side as smaller lots, newer large homes, more SFH developments and higher end townhouses but very suburban and not walkable. The Gaithersburg section are a mix of older nice SFH developments (Westleigh), townhouse communities (MB/Seneca), the planned communities like Kentlands and Lakelands, and have closer access to services, restaurants.

For someone not living in the area already, it is hard to get a consistent description of what it is like because there is this variation. I came from DC and was easily confused for the first year. The other small thing that can drive you nuts when real estate shopping is that in NP the roads change names and you often have to make a hard turn off a road to stay on the same one. If you drive N on Travilah you need to turn right at one point to stay on Travilah. If you go straight it becomes dufief and then it becomes muddy branch. Bring a GPS. [/quote]

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