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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another Howard County resident here. [b]I do not understand why anyone would think that our beautiful county is not diverse.[/b] Really, the areas where OP is looking claim nearly a majority of minorities. There are lots of immigrants are raising their families here.

To the OP: Maple Lawn is a beautiful area but the houses are crazy expensive, and the yards are really small for the houses. River Hill yields better house prices and bigger yards, but it's Columbia so you'll have to pay the Columbia Association HOA fees which are based on property value (maybe $1500-$2000 per year). Highland and Clarksville are rural areas dotted with pretty developments where the farmers sold out. Watch out, a lot of those houses use well water and septic tanks and that was a deal-breaker for me. Others are more comfortable with that.[/quote]

[b]Because Howard County is homogeneous compared to its neighbor Montgomery County.[/b]

And because people decide to live in Howard County instead of Montgomery County because they don't like Montgomery County's heterogeneity -- or at least that's what posters on DCUM say they do.[/quote]

This.  I've lived in both.  I grew up in Howard County.  Before Columbia.  When Rouse tried to build Columbia to be extremely diverse, particularly economically diverse.  And the original Columbia neighborhoods are still like that.  But developers took over outside, and built McMansions everywhere.   So the economic diversity has tanked.   Western Howard County is the worst.

And MoCo is unbelievably more diverse.  Howard may end up that way as well, but it will take a great long while in the western part.

However, I understand OP's concerns about MCPS schools, large classes, odd way of dealing with acceleration and differentiation, etc.  Howard is better for that, for sure. [/quote]

I think the previously listed school statistics accurately portray the general diversity of the different areas. (Thanks to the pp who posted those.) I can't reliably state that Howard County is more or less diverse than Montgomery County, but I don't think anyone can state that it's not diverse. Really, it's fine for anyone who wants to live here as long as you don't play the "I'm better than you" game. People like that don't stick around very long. We do have far fewer lawyers in Howard County. Is that a problem?[/quote]

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