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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What prompted you to cite a study that is 4 years old based on data that is at least six?[/quote]
Not only that, home prices have gone up in the past six years; they are building new multi unit homes all over the place, many with a starting price of $850K+.

I'm thinking .. people who make &lt; $50K are not the ones buying all those new builds.

Schools are overcrowded, and not just the poor areas.  Most of the schools on the western side are over capacity, too.

MoCo is expensive.  [b]The poor are being pushed out. [/b] I do agree that MD needs to stop welcoming so many illegal immigrants. We have enough people living here who can't afford it.  Importing more poor people also pushes out the already poor due to demand for services and lower priced housing.[/quote]
Anyone who has lived in this county for at least a decade know this is false.

Gaithersburg used to be middle class with a small area around Montgomery Village that was low income. Now Gaithersburg is almost all low income except for Kentlands. And not only is is low income, about half the murders in the county occur there.

Clarksburg was initially criticized for promoting classic white flight suburban sprawl. Clarksburg is now basically a middle to lower middle class Black community.

Downtown Silver Spring has become absolutely ghetto. There was a time before Veterans Plaza that site was just an open turn field where young white families would have picnics and their kids would play lacrosse on a Friday evening. It’s hard to believe that was only 2011, it was all so Mayberry. There is no way I would ever hang out in Vetrans Plaza today with young kids on a Friday night.

They you’re lucky enough to live in Chevy Chase or Bethesda, your neighborhood has been static and actually a little poorer. Downtown Bethesda used to have two fur shops. Now it has none.

The only neighborhood that has actually improved and gotten richer over this period seems to be the Takoma Park Historic District. Go figure. [/quote]

lol did you just base the wealth of Bethesda off fur shops?

Mink hasn’t been a thing in 25yrs.[/quote]

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