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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Also, I've read that PG County had a bad reputation even when it used to be all white. Not sure why this county gets such hate. My husband's family made a lot of money from selling their homes in DC in areas that used to considered bad that now everyone wants to live in. So you never know how an area will flip.[/quote]

Huh.  My mom grew up in PG county (Temple Hills), and my grandparents lived there.  I used to go all the time, and it wasn't exactly hood (at least in '90s).  It wasn't upscale the way that parts of Bethesda are, but it was your typical middle class suburban area.  My mom said that as DC started to gentrify, the area started to get poorer with more crime (also became more black).

My mom's experience growing up there was that it was a very diverse suburb.  She is biracial (white/asian, however that was much less common growing up in the '60s than it is now), and she had friends who were black, hispanic, Jewish, immigrants, etc.  My grandfather settled there after he retired from the military, and apparently there were a bunch of military families in PG.  I guess some members of my grandfather's family thought the area was *too* diverse.  However, now if you look up her high school, it's ~95% black, rather than truly diverse.[/quote]

You are being willfully misleading.  Temple Hills was very much hood as far back as the eighties when your Dear white  Mom lived there.  Iverson Mall, yuck.  [/quote]

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