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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"no hate"?? It's just clear you actually haven't lived or spent time in Severna Park. Or Pasadena. There are plenty of affordable homes in Severna Park, Arnold, and Cape St. Claire - we looked at all of these areas. Yes, it's pretty purple rather than typical Maryland blue - but Severna Park voted for Biden. In Pasadena Trump led by 20 or 30 points? People are also far more educated in SP - typical family is a couple both with college and/or grad degrees, very commonly working in federal government (many at the NSA), earning maybe $150-300k per household. Every other house has a boat in the driveway and neighborhood life centers around the swimming pool and the boat dock. Baltimore is 30 min away and DC an hour. Nearly everyone is into fishing, boating, kayaking and everyone is crazy about sports. There's a big community around the environment and protecting the Bay. And yeah, boat guys with Trump flags. The dems don't have flags, but there are actually more of them.  Overall people are way less obsessed with their jobs than in the the DC area and way more down to earth and just pretty much into their kids and friends. And always the boats.[/quote]

No, I’m very familiar with both areas. Not everyone who doesn’t paint a utopian picture of Severna Park is ill informed of the area. Voting for Biden doesn’t mean Severna Park is Dem. Lots of anti-Trump Republicans voted Biden. Severna Park’s county council district is one of 3 in the county that is represented by a Republican, and [b]their last councilman was an actual white nationalist.[/b] Severna Park is very much connected to Pasadena politically, culturally, and socially. Sure, Severna Park has higher income levels and many more college-educated people, but SP is still more similar to Pasadena in every way than it is to the DC metro and even Howard County. The Lake Shore area of Pasadena is essentially an extension of Severna Park and is not all that different. The waterfront there is also expensive and highly affluent, while the neighborhoods inland are a mixture of pred. MC & UMC. Exactly the same as SP & Broadneck areas. SP residents imagine themselves to be far more different from their surrounding areas than they actually are.

If you go to the Chat in SP, too Facebook group, you’ll find a post from not too long ago where someone looking at a possible move to Severna Park inquired about the local schools. The parents raved, but several students chimed in and ripped the school’s culture around mental health, racism, and classism to shreds, and most of them seemed to agree that their mental health got infinitely better after leaving Severna Park. [/quote]

wow. I just read up on Peroutka. Funny how that has never come up on DCUM. [/quote]

I have always been intrigued by Severna Park for the water access, but the conservative roots have scared me away. Since the pandemic hit, I know a lot of DC residents that have moved there -- I wonder if we will start to see a political shift?[/quote]

I highly doubt it. There hasn’t been a significant movement of people from DC to SP because the demographics of the area are virtually exactly the same as they were 15 years ago, and enrollment levels at the local schools haven’t fluctuated at all. There just isn’t any construction boom in SP that would accommodate an influx of new residents from DC to the point where it would alter the area’s character. I think if anything, the NSA/Fort Meade job boom helped shift the area from more conservative than it once was to being now purple. The only areas in Anne Arundel seeing a massive wave of new residents out of DC are in Western Anne Arundel County (areas like Crofton, Gambrills, Odenton, and Severn), and those are the parts of the county have actually turned actually blue over the last decade.
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