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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What areas/neighborhoods in Virginia are comparable to Bethesda, Potomac, North Bethesda, etc. in terms of great schools and somewhat close (commute) to DC?
[b](The above poster mentioned Arlington and Silver Spring, but I don’t think they are necessarily comparable??)[/b][/quote]

They are absolutely not comparable at all. Silver Spring doesn’t have near the amount of amenities, jobs, safety, and wealth as South Arlington, let alone North Arlington. Shirlington and [b]Crystal City[/b] are MUCH nicer than Downtown Silver Spring, which has been circling the drain for 30 years.

This happened last night Silver Spring Metro. Four kids were stabbed in a mob attack. Bethesda Magazine is so craven for burying the lead in this story and representing this as a simple fight in the headline. It’s no wonder people don’t trust the media.

[b]More than 20 juveniles involved in fight near Silver Spring Metro[/b]

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2026/02/09/silver-spring-stabbing/

[quote]County police said in a Monday night statement that officers were dispatched around 6 p.m. to a large fight with “more than 20 juveniles” near Wayne Avenue and Ramsey Avenue. Around the same time, MCFRS crews were dispatched to the Silver Spring Metro at 8400 Colesville Road for a report of injured people after “an assault/stabbing,” MCFRS spokesperson Pete Piringer posted on social media.

Additional MCFRS resources were added shortly after for a second patient, according to MCFRS radio transmissions that noted “one was hit in the head, and one was stabbed in the neck.” Minutes later, dispatch informed responders that there were four patients.[/quote]

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Crystal City?  That hellhole?  Oh, and there's plenty of crime going on there:

https://www.arlingtonva.us/About-Arlington/Newsroom/Articles/2025/Fashion-Centre-at-Pentagon-City-Evacuated-Following-Fights
https://wjla.com/news/local/boy-stabbed-fashion-centre-at-pentagon-city-mall-fight-arlington-virginia-south-hayes-street-juvenile-crime-police-investigation-arrest
https://www.arlnow.com/2025/12/17/police-man-beat-up-three-people-then-urinated-in-public-after-arrest/[/quote]

+1. Most of South Arlington is not nice at all. You drive around, and the neighborhoods look horribly run down -- hoarding out in the open, chain link fences, overgrown shrubs and grass, houses that look like they haven't been maintained, and the list goes on. It looks like people have just given up. I know some people who live there, and the petty crime is awful -- constant car break ins, package theft, etc. And many people refuse to step foot in Pentagon City Mall, which has been the source of stabbings, huge fights, violent assaults, and even multiple murders. Silver Spring may not be perfect, but it's actually much nicer, especially Woodside.[/quote]

Silver Spring has plenty of dumpy areas. Woodside is no nicer than Arlington Ridge or Aurora Heights in South Arlington. And Wakefield is a nicer HS than Einstein, not to mention schools like Kennedy or Springbrook.  [/quote]

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