Anonymous
05/09/2025 15:57
Subject: woodside in silver spring
Anonymous wrote:I've lived in Woodside for 10 years and it seems quite safe to me. Yes, DTSS has its issues but Woodside is not DTSS. Can anyone produce any evidence that Woodside itself is less safe than
North Arlington?
Woodside is one neighborhood. North Arlington is probably 125,000 people. Overall Silver Spring is much more similar to South Arlington demographics, but Arlington is actually pretty low crime.
Anonymous
05/09/2025 15:55
Subject: Re:woodside in silver spring
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There is a reason those cute houses are affordable. It is next to a depressing clusterF of a commercial corridor on Georgia between 16th St and the Beltway that has been going downhill for a while with no redevelopment prospects in sight, which peaked when Armand’s and Woodside Diner were open. Now you can leave your charming pre-WW2 colonial to a check cashing store and an Aldi where you’ll rush back to your car to avoid homeless people trailing you for the quarter in your shopping cart under the shadows of a charming water tower lined with cellphone towers.
Is this like traveling down Langston Blvd in North Arlington with the endless gas stations, the multiple vape stores, the multiple 7-11s (with homeless people outside each and every one), the shuttered Walgreens and Giant, and yes, even a checking cashing and pawn shop?
BTW, in the same shopping center where Armands used to be there, there's now a highly acclaimed restaurant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/09/19/lime-cilantro-restaurant-review-silver-spring/
Those Woodside homes would sell for 30-50% more in that area though, so I don’t see your point. You can’t fool the market. If you’re trying to compare the Yorktown school district and North Arlington in general to Woodside you’re going to be fighting a losing battle. How’s that pedestrian tunnel under Georgia Ave at Forest Glen going?
OK, if you're point is that people can spend 30-50% more to live in the hellscape that is Nova, or they can choose a lovely place like woodside and save hundreds of thousands of dollars, then we're in agreement.
That hellscape is Lyon village if you venture just south of Langston and the houses are more like 100-300% more. I doubt there are any “rich” people in silver spring.
Anonymous
05/09/2025 15:45
Subject: woodside in silver spring
20-year Woodside resident here. I love it here -- great neighbors, parks, restaurants. I walk on average three miles per day for exercise, with varying routes, and have never felt unsafe. Judging all of Silver Spring based on crime in DTSS is basically the same as judging all of Arlington based on crime in Pentagon City -- it's dumb.
Anonymous
05/09/2025 14:49
Subject: woodside in silver spring
I've lived in Woodside for 10 years and it seems quite safe to me. Yes, DTSS has its issues but Woodside is not DTSS. Can anyone produce any evidence that Woodside itself is less safe than
North Arlington?
North Arlington?
Anonymous
05/09/2025 14:01
Subject: woodside in silver spring
Anonymous wrote:OP, Woodside is a really great neighborhood and community. My parents have been there for more than 30 years - they have wonderful neighbors and have found lifelong friends there. Personally, I think that kind of community is priceless and hard to find. I didn't grow up there, so can't speak to the childhood experience but can only imagine it's pretty great.
I disagree with the people focused on crime and that Woodside is undesirable. That part of Silver Spring is totally safe. There are parts of Mont Co that are not safe, certainly, but you can say the same about anywhere in the DC area, including Arlington (which is also where I happen to live now). There are plenty of people who would love to live in Woodside.
PP compared Woodside to North Arlington, specifically near Langston Blvd. By any metric you want to use that area of Arlington is MUCH safer than Woodside. It’s not even close. And Woodside is stuck between Downtown SS and Wheaton, two places that are unsafe by MoCo standards and very unsafe by Arlington standards.
Anonymous
05/09/2025 13:43
Subject: woodside in silver spring
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:McLean has more liberals. Look at a democrat map between NoVa and MoCo and I can prove your point. I can surely believe that it will prove the point.
NoVa troll, it took you a while but you're back. Here we go again with derailing a MoCo thread with irrelevant nonsense about McLean.
Good god, do you call anyone who mentions NoVa a troll?
Anonymous
05/09/2025 12:41
Subject: woodside in silver spring
OP, Woodside is a really great neighborhood and community. My parents have been there for more than 30 years - they have wonderful neighbors and have found lifelong friends there. Personally, I think that kind of community is priceless and hard to find. I didn't grow up there, so can't speak to the childhood experience but can only imagine it's pretty great.
I disagree with the people focused on crime and that Woodside is undesirable. That part of Silver Spring is totally safe. There are parts of Mont Co that are not safe, certainly, but you can say the same about anywhere in the DC area, including Arlington (which is also where I happen to live now). There are plenty of people who would love to live in Woodside.
I disagree with the people focused on crime and that Woodside is undesirable. That part of Silver Spring is totally safe. There are parts of Mont Co that are not safe, certainly, but you can say the same about anywhere in the DC area, including Arlington (which is also where I happen to live now). There are plenty of people who would love to live in Woodside.
Anonymous
05/09/2025 11:50
Subject: Re:woodside in silver spring
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There is a reason those cute houses are affordable. It is next to a depressing clusterF of a commercial corridor on Georgia between 16th St and the Beltway that has been going downhill for a while with no redevelopment prospects in sight, which peaked when Armand’s and Woodside Diner were open. Now you can leave your charming pre-WW2 colonial to a check cashing store and an Aldi where you’ll rush back to your car to avoid homeless people trailing you for the quarter in your shopping cart under the shadows of a charming water tower lined with cellphone towers.
Is this like traveling down Langston Blvd in North Arlington with the endless gas stations, the multiple vape stores, the multiple 7-11s (with homeless people outside each and every one), the shuttered Walgreens and Giant, and yes, even a checking cashing and pawn shop?
BTW, in the same shopping center where Armands used to be there, there's now a highly acclaimed restaurant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/09/19/lime-cilantro-restaurant-review-silver-spring/
Those Woodside homes would sell for 30-50% more in that area though, so I don’t see your point. You can’t fool the market. If you’re trying to compare the Yorktown school district and North Arlington in general to Woodside you’re going to be fighting a losing battle. How’s that pedestrian tunnel under Georgia Ave at Forest Glen going?
OK, if you're point is that people can spend 30-50% more to live in the hellscape that is Nova, or they can choose a lovely place like woodside and save hundreds of thousands of dollars, then we're in agreement.
Living in a place where you don’t have to worry as much about getting murdered in a parking garage or robbed or raped is not synonymous with living in a hellscape. Arlington had 2 murders in 2022 and 2023. MoCo had 21 in 2022 and 29 in 2023 and its population is only four times bigger than Arlington’s. North Arlington near Langston is one of the safest parts of Arlington. Silver Spring is one of the most dangerous parts of MoCo.
Prices reflect this. You are not getting a deal in Woodside. You’re paying to living in a charming house in an undesirable area.
Anonymous
05/09/2025 10:56
Subject: Re:woodside in silver spring
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There is a reason those cute houses are affordable. It is next to a depressing clusterF of a commercial corridor on Georgia between 16th St and the Beltway that has been going downhill for a while with no redevelopment prospects in sight, which peaked when Armand’s and Woodside Diner were open. Now you can leave your charming pre-WW2 colonial to a check cashing store and an Aldi where you’ll rush back to your car to avoid homeless people trailing you for the quarter in your shopping cart under the shadows of a charming water tower lined with cellphone towers.
Is this like traveling down Langston Blvd in North Arlington with the endless gas stations, the multiple vape stores, the multiple 7-11s (with homeless people outside each and every one), the shuttered Walgreens and Giant, and yes, even a checking cashing and pawn shop?
BTW, in the same shopping center where Armands used to be there, there's now a highly acclaimed restaurant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/09/19/lime-cilantro-restaurant-review-silver-spring/
Those Woodside homes would sell for 30-50% more in that area though, so I don’t see your point. You can’t fool the market. If you’re trying to compare the Yorktown school district and North Arlington in general to Woodside you’re going to be fighting a losing battle. How’s that pedestrian tunnel under Georgia Ave at Forest Glen going?
OK, if you're point is that people can spend 30-50% more to live in the hellscape that is Nova, or they can choose a lovely place like woodside and save hundreds of thousands of dollars, then we're in agreement.
Anonymous
05/09/2025 10:50
Subject: Re:woodside in silver spring
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There is a reason those cute houses are affordable. It is next to a depressing clusterF of a commercial corridor on Georgia between 16th St and the Beltway that has been going downhill for a while with no redevelopment prospects in sight, which peaked when Armand’s and Woodside Diner were open. Now you can leave your charming pre-WW2 colonial to a check cashing store and an Aldi where you’ll rush back to your car to avoid homeless people trailing you for the quarter in your shopping cart under the shadows of a charming water tower lined with cellphone towers.
Is this like traveling down Langston Blvd in North Arlington with the endless gas stations, the multiple vape stores, the multiple 7-11s (with homeless people outside each and every one), the shuttered Walgreens and Giant, and yes, even a checking cashing and pawn shop?
BTW, in the same shopping center where Armands used to be there, there's now a highly acclaimed restaurant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/09/19/lime-cilantro-restaurant-review-silver-spring/
Those Woodside homes would sell for 30-50% more in that area though, so I don’t see your point. You can’t fool the market. If you’re trying to compare the Yorktown school district and North Arlington in general to Woodside you’re going to be fighting a losing battle. How’s that pedestrian tunnel under Georgia Ave at Forest Glen going?
Anonymous
05/09/2025 10:44
Subject: Re:woodside in silver spring
Anonymous wrote:There is a reason those cute houses are affordable. It is next to a depressing clusterF of a commercial corridor on Georgia between 16th St and the Beltway that has been going downhill for a while with no redevelopment prospects in sight, which peaked when Armand’s and Woodside Diner were open. Now you can leave your charming pre-WW2 colonial to a check cashing store and an Aldi where you’ll rush back to your car to avoid homeless people trailing you for the quarter in your shopping cart under the shadows of a charming water tower lined with cellphone towers.
Is this like traveling down Langston Blvd in North Arlington with the endless gas stations, the multiple vape stores, the multiple 7-11s (with homeless people outside each and every one), the shuttered Walgreens and Giant, and yes, even a checking cashing and pawn shop?
BTW, in the same shopping center where Armands used to be there, there's now a highly acclaimed restaurant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/09/19/lime-cilantro-restaurant-review-silver-spring/
Anonymous
05/09/2025 10:38
Subject: woodside in silver spring
Anonymous wrote:McLean has more liberals. Look at a democrat map between NoVa and MoCo and I can prove your point. I can surely believe that it will prove the point.
NoVa troll, it took you a while but you're back. Here we go again with derailing a MoCo thread with irrelevant nonsense about McLean.
Anonymous
05/09/2025 09:00
Subject: Re:woodside in silver spring
There is a reason those cute houses are affordable. It is next to a depressing clusterF of a commercial corridor on Georgia between 16th St and the Beltway that has been going downhill for a while with no redevelopment prospects in sight, which peaked when Armand’s and Woodside Diner were open. Now you can leave your charming pre-WW2 colonial to a check cashing store and an Aldi where you’ll rush back to your car to avoid homeless people trailing you for the quarter in your shopping cart under the shadows of a charming water tower lined with cellphone towers.
Anonymous
05/09/2025 07:59
Subject: woodside in silver spring
Anonymous wrote: Lovely area with lots of pretty streets and young families. Elementary could be Woodlin or Sligo Creek, both are good.
Langley High School!
Anonymous
05/09/2025 07:58
Subject: woodside in silver spring
McLean has more liberals. Look at a democrat map between NoVa and MoCo and I can prove your point. I can surely believe that it will prove the point.