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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To answer the original question, I don't know yet but will be moving to Landsdale in Monrovia, coming from MoCo. Looking forward to a younger community, good amenities, good schools. I am hoping there will be even more diversity with the new developments.

There are too many people on DCUM who think a long commute is the end of the world. [/quote]

You too will become one of those people after you’ve done the Linganore - DC commute for a year or two.  Good luck.[/quote]

On a good day, that’s a rough commute.  Landsdale and Urbana don’t have it as bad, since they are close to 270.  Linganore is another story.  Tons of new houses going in there and no infrastructure to support it.  To get out of Lake Linganore, you have to take a bunch of winding country roads.  These roads aren’t equipped to handle the influx of traffic.  Even worse, these roads are not safe.[/quote]

Lansdale is built on a tiny farm road that was bucolic even 5 years ago.  You have signed up for overcrowded schools (Green Valley wasn’t meant to absorb all those kids and the Urbana schools are their own problem- even with a new elementary), a characterless neighborhood (no pool, no club, just a bunch of tract homes on old farmland), worsening traffic into Urbana, no walkability to anywhere, and tiny lots.  Enjoy your commute into Urbana (which used to be a dream but is now a traffic issue unto itself) and down the hell of 270.[/quote]

Lansdale still has it better than Linganore in terms of getting to 270.  I've lived in Linganore for 20+ years and the roads in and out of Linganore have gone from bad to worse.  The new residents don't seem to mind.  They get here and enjoy their new digs, then end up complaining that there's no Trader Joe's or they have to drive 20 minutes to get a latte.  Developers listen, and then in a couple years there are strip malls surrounding Linganore, turning it into another Germantown, which is ironic, because if they loved Germantown so much, they should have stayed there.[/quote]

My sister moved from Moco (Richard Montgomery cluster) to Landsdale and commuted into DC twice a week. She quit. It's just a terrible commute and not easy to get to 270 at all. She loves her new home and likes her neighbors but still complains about the school; and how it's not challenging enough; and yes, not diverse enough. Her kid's school (Linganore HS) has like 2% black kids. Now she's complaining and saying that she should've just stayed or moved to Clarksburg or Urbana  for a newer home.[/quote]

Linganore, though not diverse, is a very good school.  I live in Linganore, which is in the Oakdale feeder pattern.  I know people in Lansdale and they're also upset that they are no longer in the Urbana feeder district.  They bought in Lansdale because their home was marketed and sold as Urbana schools.  Kind of ironic that while they "love" Frederick, they don't love Frederick schools, unless it's Urbana.  Yes, Urbana is a great school and it is much more diverse than Linganore, but by and large the curriculum at Urbana is the same as it is at any Frederick County school.  The Frederick BOE doesn't make a curriculum that's unique to Urbana...it's the same for every high school.[/quote]

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