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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in one of the sections.  I've lived here less than 5 years.
My wife and I rated CC as zero when we started looking for a house for our new daughter, but we are thankful we moved here.
We decided to look here by chance and it turned out to be a great decision.

Why I love CC
Schools.  The schools are really good.  You can either go to a private or public school.  Diversity is important to us.   I wanted to move to the Walt Whitman school zone, however that changed when I realized that Churchill and Whitman have &lt; 100 AA students enrolled out of 1800+ students  and there were little to no free and reduced lunch kids.   We want our daughters to embrace diversity and understand not everyone is as fortunate as they are while maintaining excellent academic standards.    BCC is 30% minority and 20% free and reduced lunch.

Community:   Section 5 has a July 4th parade with pony rides and a fall neighborhood gathering.  I think of our neighborhood as Mayberry.

Taxes:  Certain towns in CC don't adhere to the MoCo tax structure.  That means that taxes are not as high

Gov't:  Because you are not officially apart of MoCo, you have your own town gov't.   They tend to be very responsive.

Families:   In 5 years, most of the people who have moved into the neighborhood have children under 2.    There is a great mix of older and younger families.   Our neighborhood is friendly.  After Christmas we saw a lot of kids playing with new toys outside....you can't beat that.

Houses:  It is a personal preference, but we like old homes.   There are new and renovated homes in our neighborhood, but we are going to spend money soon to renovate our house.   personally I don't get why people need a house more than 3000 sq/ft.  I guess the lots are small, but it never has bothered us.  There are a lot of parks around our house and there is not a lot of traffic going down our street.

Careers:  There is old and new money.  Powerful and powerless people in the neighborhoods.  You meet some amazing people (not just media) when talking to your neighbors.   Just because someone has a lot of attention does not make them anything less than human.   I enjoy getting perspectives from people &quot;in the know&quot;.

Value:  During the next real estate crash your house won't loose value, but prices aren't growing quickly either.   Most of the houses have been dead money for 10 years.  But you won't loose money here.   You also can't over improve and you will get back your investment.

Location:  It is close to everything.  Silver Spring is 10 min away.   Bethesda is 5 min away.   The purple line is 5 min away.   The ends of the red line are 5 & 10 min away.  We are 2 min from DC and 5 min from 495.  w/o traffic we are 15 min away from Tysons.

Shopping:   There is a lot around the area.

Parks:  There are stables 5 min away from the house.  Rock Creek park is a HUGE park.

To each his/her own, but I love CC
I'm not old money.  Most of the people I meet are regular people, though somewhat successful.   There are a lot of kids running around.   The school zone is great and politically I really think this neighborhood is purple.   [/quote] there’s a sprinkle of AA at Churchill (9%) some wealthy/some from the Scotland/Inverness delevopement. which still isn’t a lot but compared to Whitman which has less than 5 percent AA and is the most predominantly white school in moco[/quote]

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