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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a really nice house. OP, you seem to have strange hangups about Gaithersburg, but if you do a streetview, you'll see that this is a beautiful neighborhood.[/quote]

It is far out from DC and Nova and when I was house hunting in 2017 Gaithersburg, Rockville were the cheaper areas due to longer commute and non-w schools, now the prices are getting nuts out there. [/quote]
If you work at Astra Zeneca, you’ve got a 5 minute commute. Some people don’t work in DC.[/quote]

My neighbor in Potomac works at Astra Zeneca and last kid graduated HS was going to sell home last fall and move to Gaithersburg to be closwer to work and he no longer need a W school.

In the end he bought another home in Potomac as he said I am not paying Potomac prices in Gaithersburg.

Here is a townhome in Gaithersburg for $1,150,000. With 13k taxes and $157 a month HOA. Great location but no land and attached.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/606-Crown-Park-Ave-Gaithersburg-MD-20878/119331492_zpid/

meanwhile I could buy a single family home in Potomac for that price

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10104-Colebrook-Ave-Potomac-MD-20854/37260379_zpid/

I am one comparing 2017 prices and back then you got ALOT for your money in Gaithersburg. the last 9 years it has flipped.   [/quote]

Potomac is so intensely unwalkable. It would drive me insane.

I love being able to walk to 3 grocery stores, haircut places for the entire family, my dentist’s office, multiple locally owned restaurants, my kid’s dance studio, etc.

I love that we have a Christmas tree/menorah lighting right in our town square.

I love our summer festival, with food trucks and bands.

I love that we get thousands of kids for Halloween.

Reducing it to just “Potomac vs Gaithersburg” is really minimizing what Kentlands/Lakelands is. We’re basically a small town. [/quote]

Except did you see the traffic today? When an accident happens like this morning (I work in NOVA) nearly everyone in Germantown and Gaithersburg who drives to work in DC or NOVA that extra drive is a killer. Pre 2020 that was a huger issue.

However, since 2020 more people are either remote or 2-3 days a week in office so it blew up out there.

However, MoCo has a way of PUNISHING high home prices. By 2030 you will see 15K-18K  property tax in the Kentlands/Lakelands as rising assessments kick in. The new Crown HS and new retail is making it even more desirable. But that also brings higher prices and higher property taxes.

I like it there, just they will be a victim of their own success.

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Eh, traffic in this area is bad no matter what.

I did a Gaithersburg-NoVA commute for 8 years. It was terrible at times, but I survived.

Now I WFH but drive my kid to school in Potomac every morning. It’s 25-30 minutes each way.

Our house will be fully paid off when our kid goes to college in 9 years. We’ll sell and move out of this area. So I’m not too concerned.[/quote]

For those of us who live inside the beltway, that commute and traffic way out there are insane.   No thank you.  I dread even going up one exit to run an errand off of Montrose!   Our house is paid off too.   [/quote

You’re such a puke.[/quote]

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