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[quote=Anonymous]The MoCo close in areas that don't have great schools like Bethesda and CC have been just as hobbled. Houses are still cheap in Silver Spring and Takoma Park. Closer in Silver Spring has appreciated more than northern Silver Spring but the area is still relatively flat. The poverty in those areas is just growing too fast for the schools to keep up. Which schools have the highest drop out rate? Wheaton, Northwood, and Gaithersburg. Northwood is pretty close in.

The problems are everywhere. Montgomery Village used to be a nice place for government workers and professionals that worked in MD. Now it is terrible, high crime, poverty and all rentals. The low income housing developments in the Northwest boundary hold that school back despite there being lots of positive things going on at Northwest. The FARMS rates in the DCC have grown substantially in the past 10 years. The area is not gentrifying. It is getting poorer. Potomac is aging and losing out to VA.
Whether it is the schools, poverty rate increases, high taxes, or long commutes because there are few business or professional opportunities in MoCo, everyone here is being negatively hit by it.[/quote]

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