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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Sorry, didn’t mean to offend anyone. I like the diversity in SS and some of the neighbourhoods are nice. People seem friendly.
It’s just that I have been to downtown SS many times now and it is a bit depressing. I’m fine with urban grit but there is something about the SS downtown that I find jarring. It is not designed well and many of the buildings are ugly and rundown. I love ethnic food. It’s just that the area feels utterly charmless. The WF is nice but the parking lot there gets crazy on the weekends. I was surprised at the traffic and congestion in downtown on Friday evenings. I just feel it would add to my stress level if I had to go there a lot. The farmers market is very nice. Maybe it is fine to live there but avoid downtown and instead frequent Takoma Park, Bethesda and Rockville instead. Even the metro station looks imposing and uninviting. Good to hear there are nice parks around. We are also looking at Kensington. I’m not a huge Bethesda fan but I would say the Bethesda downtown beats SS by a mile. I guess that visual aesthetics are important to me. I could never live in an ugly house even if the inside was very nice. [/quote]

OP, I lived near SS for 16 years and worked in downtown SS for 6 and I agree with you 100%. I think the people being mean to you are just being defensive. FWIW, I like a lot of the neighborhoods in SS and like the people there better than in Bethesda but anyone who argues that DTSS is as nice as or nicer than Bethesda is deluded or just trying to justify their choice to live there.[/quote]

Seconded. Silver Spring has a lot of nice neighborhoods. Woodside is great, Forest Glen is an under appreciated gem as is the neighborhoods around Four Corners. But people on here saying that Downtown SS is nicer than downtown Bethesda are delusional. Forget about the architecture arguments or the subjective views about soul, just consider that downtown Bethesda is contained on one side of a busy road (Wisconsin Ave) and you don’t have to walk across a busy highway to get to the main part from the Metro, unlike Silver Spring, where the downtown is only accessible from the Metro across Georgia Ave and the whole downtown is poorly planned and broken up by large roads. Concerns about getting hit by a car or living in a poorly planned urban center have nothing to do with demographics. Columbia Heights is just as diverse and has more “soul,” architectural character, and is most importantly much more walkable and better planned. Ditto Takoma Park.[/quote]

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