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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the safe, human-sized, walkable, leafy, sidewalked, small town neighborhoods with reputable public schools close to DC are expensive.

I lived in downtown Silver Spring, and moved close to downtown Bethesda for the schools and the better quality of life as a pedestrian. Downtown Silver Spring does not have that small town feel, and it is unsafe in the evening (and sometimes during the day). As a pedestrian, it's much more pleasant to walk in downtown Bethesda than downtown Silver Spring (there are more street crossings, the shops/restaurants are closer together and the buildings mostly aren't as tall). I've personally witnessed multiple fights in the pedestrian alley in Silver Spring, none in Bethesda.

- multiethnic foreigner, living on a [b]Bethesda street full of people from all over the world.[/b] [/quote]

I love how internationally diverse Bethesda is, one of my very favorite things about it. [/quote]

Lol [/quote]

The fact that I have South American, African, Israeli, and Iranian neighbors is amusing?[/quote]

You can just replace all those words with “the right type of diversity”.

Since your a transplant we call that “world bank” diversity, it’s code for we don’t have to deal with those dirty poor people/immigrants.[/quote]

Not like there aren’t more places with that type of diversity to choose from. Does every place have to be grungy like silver spring? If you value proximity to poor people you can take a discount and move there. Picking the opposite doesn’t make you racist it makes you classist or simply tried of guttural drama.[/quote]

Anyone who can afford it will move to a safe close-in neighborhood with good schools. It is certainly a shame those things are a function of socioeconomic status and inflected by systemic racism. But that doesn't mean the people desiring good location, schools, and safety are racist.[/quote]

That is wholeheartedly untrue. There are plenty of wealthy people living all over Maryland that could afford to live in Bethesda that would never in a million years wanna live there.[/quote]

Sure, Jan.[/quote]

Easton md is more wealthy than Bethesda [/quote]

And it is the opposite of "close-in."[/quote]

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