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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few years ago we moved to Columbia to be closer to my husband's job.
I hated it. Thankfully we were only renting.  We broke the lease after being there for 40 days. (Had to pay $$$$ for breaking lease) and then we moved back to Chevy Chase/Bethesda area.[/quote]
Columbia is a very integrated area. If you aren't used to seeing a lot of different races living in the same neighborhood together, you probably do need to go back to Chevy Chase.[/quote]

Agreed.  The stated goal of the designer of Columbia is that a CEO could live next to a janitor. They valued economic diversity whereas CC had covenants to prevent Jews and AAs from living there. Maybe that's what they're looking for. [/quote]

As recently as the 1970s and 1980s Bethesda and Chevy Chase had (I know this, I was there) areas where CEOs and drivers lived in the same neighborhood. This didn't happen in Chevy Chase Village, but that's a very small area (2-3K people out of about 150K in 20814-20817).

As for covenants, all you need to know is WHEN an area was developed. Pre-1950s suburbs almost always had covenants. This includes much of metro Baltimore, I have seen these documents myself. And post-1950s developments, like Columbia, which was largely developed in the 1970s, never have them. So no brownie points for that.

Also, realize that MoCo has an enormous population of recent immigrants from very modest backgrounds in Latin America. HoCo does NOT have those kinds of people in even moderate numbers. HoCo does have a good number of highly skilled immigrants, largely from Asia, but not entirely.[/quote]

Have you been to Columbia recently? Columbia has a large number of recent immigrants from moderate backgrounds. Whether that's a draw or not is another story [/quote]

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