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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, I drove through the Viers Mill Road Georgia Avenue are yesterday and it looks worse than it did 20 years ago.[/quote]

There's a giant bus station, a shopping mall, some newly built apartments, and a newly built county office building in that area. I remember it 20 years ago, and the new development is an improvement. What do you remember from 20 years ago that was better?[/quote]

I know as someone who has lived in this area since 2015 that Wheaton has gotten dramatically worse since 2018-2019. It might be a combination of MoCo’s extreme Covid lockdown policies relative to DC and NoVA, open borders, and a lax attitude on crime, but it is noticeably worse. It was starting to improve around the time the nice steakhouse (forget the name) was next to Legends sports bar and Bar Louie was at Wheaton Mall. It’s been getting steadily more depressing and shady since these places closed, which was around 2018-2019. Not that they are all that mattered but they’re good markers.

Is there anyone who’s lived here since 2015 that thinks it’s gotten nicer in Wheaton / Glenmont since 2020? I’d like to hear your reasons why.[/quote]

We moved to the Wheaton area in 2021 and love it. Prior to that we lived about 10 minutes away. Not sure what has gotten worse, but PP referenced some improvements. In terms of things since 2015, there is the new plaza which has fun events as well as the rec center which is really nice.[/quote]

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