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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bethesda sucks. I go there sometimes to meet a friend and grab a bite to eat but I’m amazed at all the vapid people walking around and acting like the faux high end chain stores are the cat’s meow. The restaurants are mostly pretty lame also.
Brooklyn in NYC or Santa Monica, LA are both 100x better. Chevy Chase MD is awful as well.[/quote]

Downtown Bethesda is by no mean perfect. Bethesda Row is operated by a single landlord charging high rents which limits the stores, although why they end up with multiple outposts of internet brands like peloton and warby parker is a mystery to me (like how bank branches can apparently be so profitable).

All that said, I am not sure which is the more ridiculous part of your post— the part where you can tell everyone is vapid while you grab a quick bite to eat or the part where you compare it to Brooklyn and Santa Monica, both of which have their own issues and neither of which is likely to be a reasonable alternative for someone looking for a place to live eat or shop.

Bethesda has a lot going for it even if you never step foot on Bethesda avenue or Bethesda row. And of course not everyone is spending their time yelling at waitstaff or being pretentious or whatever other stereotypes you have. [/quote]

+1. It’s no better or worse than any other close-in UMC suburb of DC and awfully similar to close-in UMC suburbs in other east coast cities. Not sure why all the hate. What did you expect it to be? If UMC suburbs aren’t your thing, cool, there’s plenty of other places out there. [/quote]

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