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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All I know is that the number of shooting, assualts, and crime overall are exploding in areas like Silver Spring.

And the county just voted to elect in clowns who want to reduce police presence? MoCo is doomed to becoming Baltimore. Wait until the wealthy flee the area for greener pastures and take their taxes with them.

The decline of MoCo is going to be exponential. [/quote]
Baltimore is superior to Montgomery County.

Towson has 3 universities and is a really cool area and then in town they have Hopkins. Montgomery County has the Universities at Shady Grove.

Baltimore has Roland Park and Mt. Washington. Montgomery County has Chevy Chase, Bethesda and Potomac.

Baltimore has the Inner Harbor, Fells Point and Canton. Montgomery County has…. downtown Silver Spring, downtown Bethesda and Pike and Rose?[/quote]

Baltimore also has cheap houses, and a lots of them.   Will you move there or send your kids to the public schools?  By the way, their per student spending is much higher than MCPS.[/quote]

With all its problems, Baltimore has a lot more development than MoCo and has a much more vibrant influx of young, interesting people while MoCo seems to be turning into a retirement community with hardly and growth or dynamism whatsoever. It’s pretty sad when businesses would rather to a place like Baltimore with so much crime rather than a county that’s adjacent to the nation’s capital with hardly any crime by comparison. It should tell people how terrible county leadership is.[/quote]

I feel like the MoCo bashers use whatever they can to say it's a bad place to live.  Too many services.  Not enough services.  Too many retired people.  All the retired people are leaving the state with their wealth. [/quote]

The bottom line is that MoCo has so much more potential, and we are underperform given our population size, levels of education, and relative wealth.  We aren't doing as well as other similarly-situated jurisdictions right here in the DMV.

So, why not?  And why does that matter?   County leaders are committed to acting on much larger, global issues that that are not unique to MoCo.  And when the problem is bigger than MoCo (racism, climate change, regional transporation needs, etc.) it really needs to be acted on at a regional level, at least.  And ideally, at a federal or world level.   And it should use state or federal dollars to meet those larger goals that impact more than just us.

But they aren't choosing to do that.  They are choosing to put a significant portion of county tax dollars to do that work, which is an unsustainable model, long-term, if they don't grow their tax base.   They can grow that tax base in two ways:  1) tax individuals more, or 2) grow the number of businesses here that pay taxes.

We can't tax individuals more when the wealthier people are moving out.  Mostly, that's because it's wealthy retirees leaving and younger, less skilled people moving in.  That less-skilled population is a gold mine if the county were willing to invest in their local job training and local job market.  You can grow a highly skilled population pretty easily if you commit to it.  But we aren't.

We pretty much all want the same things.  A thriving county where people can find housing, jobs, education, and recreation.     For at least 15 years, county leaders talk a pretty game and hit on the emotional catch phrases that people love to hear -- we will end racism, poverty, climate change -- we are good people who care.

But they have no idea how to effectively make the trains run.   And that's why they will fail. [/quote]

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