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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of Price George’s County MD[/quote]

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*Prince George's County--a county that's the right price[/quote]
Most redlined county
Schools stink, crime[/quote]

I’ve lived in Bethesda and PG and the experience of living there is very similar. The amenities are the same. The primary differences are the concentration of low income kids and kids of color in the public schools and the landscaping. There may or may not be a meaningful difference in the actual management of the schools - jury’s out.  I’m not kidding about the landscaping. What plants are where and how they are tended, and the presence of swathes of mulch, is one of the primary indicators of wealth in both commercial and private spaces here. A full army of low wage workers descends on Bethesda every morning to tend to the landscaping. In PG county there’s a lot less of that. Some, but not as much. It’s partly HOAs but I think mostly it’s wealth. You start to notice it more, but it doesn’t negatively impact my life.

Crime-wise, for 99.5% of the people living here it’s the same. Almost no violent crime between unrelated people, some property crime that can be a nuisance if you get unlucky. Otherwise nothing. Being in the same county as Langley Park doesn’t make crime or violence there affect me differently or more than it affects people in Takoma Park. The vast majority of the county is quiet suburbs. [/quote]

Langley Park Spills over into East Silver Spring and TP all the time, Everything from robberies, car jackings while even murder and prostitution is not rare east of Piney Branch and that isn't even mentioning the property crime. Heck the center of what most people think is the worst part of Langley Park along University up to the Chucky Cheese is actually MoCo/TP and not PG.

Also if you think Bethesda is similar to PG you most be talking about the nicest parts of PG only and comparing it to mostly North Bethesda / Rockville.  There isn't anywhere comparable to Downtown Bethesda, West Bethesda or the Chevy Chase satellites like Somerset anywhere in PG. Even University Park is Silver Spring lite at best (Sligo Park Hills is a good comparable to UP)

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TPK Crime Cassandra has entered the room. She finds every thread on the area and is all over it like a bad hairdo.

Seriously, this is nonsense. I’ve lived in TPK, first east of Piney Branch and now west of PB, for 25 years. I’ve never experienced a car jacking or prostitution on my streets, let alone a murder. The only break-ins on my street were traced to a DC gang that targets neighborhoods all along the border, including Bethesda.

Also, nobody is looking to live near the Chucky Cheese way out on University Boulevard. [/quote]

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