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Reply to "Of the 20 counties with the highest level of middle class "white flight," 5 are in the DC area"
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[quote=Anonymous]In MoCo its occurring widely in Silver Spring, Gaithersburg and Germantown. People in Bethesda, Potomac, western Rockville and other areas west of 355 don't notice because this is where the whites are fleeing to from those areas. You can see it in the wide capacity gaps between ES schools in Potomac and North Potomac. The high schools should be empty because of the low ES enrollment but they are always at capacity because people move from the bad areas to get into good schools for high school. Its driven by poverty as the poor are pushed further east and north. As property values drop in those areas more of the small SFH become poorly managed rentals attracting too many people. Montgomery Village has gotten very bad over the past 10 years. Its not about the racial dynamic but about the poverty which brings along poorly maintained properties, crime and dropping school scores. No one of any race wants to live in that environment but the poor have fewer choices. [/quote]
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