Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm the person who lives in 20906, and I go to Wheaton and eat out and shop,etc. It's not as bad as some people are portraying, at least now. They've been working on redeveloping.
But, would not live on some of the streets where I would be the only English speaker and the only non-hispanic. We did tour some of the areas and look at a couple houses; people would come out to stare at us becasue we were such a novelty. Packed with people--look for large nubmers of trash cans and an excessive number of cars, if you want to see which houses are essentially boarding houses.
I used to live in 20906, and before that I lived a couple streets away from Bushey Drive.
The neighborhood where Bushey is located is nowhere near Wheaton Plaza. It's south of Aspen Hill and it is literally 100% newly arrived immigrants doubled/tripled up. It makes 20906 look like Potomac.
Anonymous wrote:I'm the person who lives in 20906, and I go to Wheaton and eat out and shop,etc. It's not as bad as some people are portraying, at least now. They've been working on redeveloping.
But, would not live on some of the streets where I would be the only English speaker and the only non-hispanic. We did tour some of the areas and look at a couple houses; people would come out to stare at us becasue we were such a novelty. Packed with people--look for large nubmers of trash cans and an excessive number of cars, if you want to see which houses are essentially boarding houses.
Anonymous wrote:No. You do not want there OP.
We used to live not far but where those houses are is almost all lower income immigrants. Perfectly nice people I am sure in most cases but unlikely you will feel you fit will. But there are some nicer spots not far from there.
For that general area and metro accessible look in the Glenallan ES zone - just a little further east of where you are looking - in Tivoli neighborhood there may be some THs in that price range with garages. We lived in a TH in another neighborhood in the zone. Glenallan ratings are - like any other school in Aspen Hill and Wheaton - not good but we and the other parents we knew that gave it a shot liked it a lot. You can do a search on here and see past comments on it.
Hispanics and African immigrants mostly. Elderly whites who never left when the influx started.Anonymous wrote:https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/2614-Elmont-St-20902/home/11007077
https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/12513-Bushey-Dr-20906/home/11038733
What can we expect the area to be like? Is it very diverse? We need a place for about 5 years and then we are moving. Renting is not an option due to pets. We would also be looking to build a garage on the property.