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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who could afford decent housing wouldn't choose PG. No one wants to live with crime and bad schools.

How do you explain DC with much worse crimes and schools?

Amenities and urban density outweigh everything else. I moved from 3,800 sqft a 1 hr 20 min commute away on a good day to 1,200 sqft on the red line. I love every moment of my new life.

I’m not the only person either - turn on HGTV and it’s nothing but millenials and couples looking to move closer in to the city of their choice on Love It or List It.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who could afford decent housing wouldn't choose PG. No one wants to live with crime and bad schools.

How do you explain DC with much worse crimes and schools?

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who could afford decent housing wouldn't choose PG. No one wants to live with crime and bad schools.

And yet, housing prices are sky high in Columbia Heights, Shaw, U Street, Hillcrest, Brookland, Bloomington, Petworth, Chillum, Woodridge, Anacostia, Eckington, Trinidad, H Street Corridor, Takoma Park, Dupont. Heck, housing prices are going up in Deanwood and Marshall Heights. Just stop PP with your nonsense. You know nothing.

This seems obvious to me. PG County is the last affordable area near dc. Not everyone can spend $900k on a shit stack in North Arlington. Isn’t the average salary at hq2 $150k? That is limiting in this area.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah both of my cousins went to PG county schools and are now doctors. I also know several partners and c-suite execs that currently live there. One c-suite exec's daughter is currently in med school as well.

Anyone can be a partner if they form a partnership, or reside in the C-suite of his or her own company.

Partners at big four and CEO of a a major company. Also, quite a few of the partners at my consulting firm live in PG county. If I said which one you will literally go on the website and see.

Ok where in PG? Where is good part of PG?

Lol I can tell you’ve never been to pg county. Still baffles me why people think it’s a crime ridden wasteland. The city in PG I grew up in is way better than where I live now in Nova (Arlington). But commute is important so I’m here. If I got a job in Maryland I’d move back in a heartbeat and raise my children there.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah both of my cousins went to PG county schools and are now doctors. I also know several partners and c-suite execs that currently live there. One c-suite exec's daughter is currently in med school as well.

Anyone can be a partner if they form a partnership, or reside in the C-suite of his or her own company.

Partners at big four and CEO of a a major company. Also, quite a few of the partners at my consulting firm live in PG county. If I said which one you will literally go on the website and see.

Ok where in PG? Where is good part of PG?

They live in Upper Marlboro and Bowie, MD. Also, another family friend of mine use to live in Upper Marlboro both big law lawyers. Honestly, these people are all black and all of them sent their kids to private school. I also grew up in PG county for a short while and I went to private school.

Yes, I believe PG country will benefit a lot. I am in MoCo, and I even wrote the same thins a month ago on these very boards. I told it to my friends who owns 2 houses in PG county. They will benefit immensely. In Cheverly houses are already increasing in prices like nuts. Right now there is a bit of a slow period, but summer was nuts there.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah both of my cousins went to PG county schools and are now doctors. I also know several partners and c-suite execs that currently live there. One c-suite exec's daughter is currently in med school as well.

Anyone can be a partner if they form a partnership, or reside in the C-suite of his or her own company.

Partners at big four and CEO of a a major company. Also, quite a few of the partners at my consulting firm live in PG county. If I said which one you will literally go on the website and see.

Ok where in PG? Where is good part of PG?

Anyone who could afford decent housing wouldn't choose PG. No one wants to live with crime and bad schools.

I hope people don't start moving into PG. I like being able to go to Costco on a Saturday without dealing with mobs of people and crazy parking (looking at you, DC and Arlington) and being able to commute to DC in under a 1/2 hour. I'm quite happy to keep our property values low. I have no plans to move and all the rising prices do is raise my (already too high) property taxes.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah both of my cousins went to PG county schools and are now doctors. I also know several partners and c-suite execs that currently live there. One c-suite exec's daughter is currently in med school as well.

Anyone can be a partner if they form a partnership, or reside in the C-suite of his or her own company.

Partners at big four and CEO of a a major company. Also, quite a few of the partners at my consulting firm live in PG county. If I said which one you will literally go on the website and see.

I keep hearing the argument about schools and crime, yet people are flocking to DC in droves and making it work. No, not all of DC is "urban".
There are a lot of SFH outside the core that families are moving to. So why not PG County? It is affordable and an actually decent place to live. Is it perfect? No, but my dollar stretches so much further here and I think that will encourage Amazon and other workers looking for more affordable housing.

I think PG County officials should push Metro to extend Yellow line service to Greenbelt to make it attractive to people working in Crystal City.

Anonymous wrote:No doubt some Amazon employee may find PG to be affordable if they can get over the lack of cool. (Of course, if some Amazonians start moving in, how long before we will start hearing the whining from certain PG quarters about ‘gentrification’ and ‘inclusion’?)

The reality is that there was no Amazon contest for PG to lose. It was never a contender.

"Lack of cool?" Since when has someone taken on a mortgage because a place was "cool?" I bought a house because it was a good location for commuting, but to each his own I guess!

And I keep saying this, but MOST of PG County could not gentrify because most of PG County is NICE. It is mostly pleasant suburb. Unless gentrification actually means "replace black people with white people" I do not understand how a lot of the county could "gentrify."

I agree that PG was never a real contender for something like Amazon, although it would have been a great candidate. We are close to DC, lots of Metro, lots of space, less congested. But maybe you should occasionally visit PG before posting about it?

There is no shortage of cool in PG County. You just don’t know where to go.

No doubt some Amazon employee may find PG to be affordable if they can get over the lack of cool. (Of course, if some Amazonians start moving in, how long before we will start hearing the whining from certain PG quarters about ‘gentrification’ and ‘inclusion’?)

The reality is that there was no Amazon contest for PG to lose. It was never a contender.