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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People act like Kensington is one area with one personality while TP is all the trendy homes near the metro. They both have a spectrum of homes.

The Victorians in the town of Kensington go for more than the best homes in TP by the metro. The cheaper parts of Kensington are still more expensive than [b]slummy[/b] parts of TP that most people think is Langley Park along university. The middle areas are comparable. All in all there is way more nice parts of Kensington than TP and way more poverty in TP.  TP is just more trendy and on people tongues but even then most of them are only thinking about a few roads near the center of it. [/quote]

One of the nice things about Takoma Park, from a quality of life perspective, is you are very unlikely to be forced to engage with folks who use words like "slummy" to describe their kids' schoolmates. [/quote]

Also important to point out that the boundaries of 20895 are right next to Silver Spring and Wheaton zip codes that are quite similar pricewise and demographic wise to Langley Park.[/quote]

Wheaton is much nicer than Langley Park. It’s not paradise, but compared to Langley Park it’s a much better place to live by any metric: amenities, congestion, crime, Metro access, schools, etc. Einstein is WAAAY better than the high schools that LP kids are zoned for.

I know you want to defend TP, but let’s not get carried away.[/quote]

I actually live in the cheaper part of Kensington (zoned for Einstein) very close to Wheaton. I agree that it's a nice place to live. We looked at houses in Takoma Park zoned for Rolling Terrace and New Hampshire Estates elementaries and they were not cheaper, if anything you get less for your money.

Also you've shifted from talking about Takoma Park, which is zoned for Blair High School (currently more in demand than Einstein) to Langley Park in Prince George's County.[/quote]

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