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Anonymous

12/01/2025 01:00 Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Edgemoor, Kenwood, Chevy Chase Village

Potomac Falls, Country Club Dr, Burning Tree

Somerset, Martins Additions

Rest of CCMD, Rest of Bethesda, close in Potomac outside of the above

Garret Park, Historic Kensington, further out potomac

North Bethesda, Forest Glen, historic Takoma Park

Rockville, close in silver spring, nice parts of Gaithersburg, cute historic part of Hyattsville

Mt Ranier, College Park

Far out silver spring, Cheverly, Bowie, rest of Gaithersburg

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^Sh*t tier demarcation line 💩🚨 💩🚨 💩 🚨

Aspen Hill, Glenmont (can debatably bump them up one slot out of the sh*t tier)

Wheaton, Takoma outside of the cute historic areas, Montgomery Village

West Hyattsville (away from Rt1)

Lanham, Landover

Oxon Hill, Suitland, Temple Hills

Waldorf

Oh thank good Mount Rainer made Tier 1, lest I be forced to move 🙄

Mt. Rainier is kinda hood.

Anonymous

11/30/2025 19:56 Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings

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Anonymous wrote:Lol, now is it possible to do a prestige ranking on the MCPS high schools?

Good idea. Here's the more ideal ranking for the schools if you gonna consider the prestige by it's current boundary area.

Tier 1:
- Winston Churchill
- Walt Whitman
- Poolesville
- Bethesda-Chevy Chase
- Wootton

Tier 2:
- RM
- Clarksburg
- Northwest
- Einstein
- Blair
- WJ

Tier 3:
- Damascus
- Sherwood
- Magruder
- Blake
- Quince Orchard

Tier 4:
- Northwood
- Wheaton
- Gaithersburg
- Paint Branch

Tier 5:
- Rockville
- Watkins Mill
- Kennedy
- Springbrook

Swap Rockville and Northwood.
Swap Springbrook and Wheaton.

QO should be in Tier 2.
Einstein should be in Tier 3.

RM should be in Tier 1.

Rockville is ranked higher than Einstein. I think the Einstein neighborhood may be one of those where most of the parents send their kids to privates.

https://www.publicschoolreview.com/maryland/montgomery-county/high?utm_source=chatgpt.com

The thing about the "prestige" around here is it isn't like it's tied to anything demonstrative, like good views or a beach. Even the houses in many of the "Old Money" neighborhoods are run down. It's remarkable. Like literally overpaying for housing to live next to other people who paid too much for housing.

Anonymous

11/28/2025 21:40 Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings

Anonymous wrote:Edgemoor, Kenwood, Chevy Chase Village

Potomac Falls, Country Club Dr, Burning Tree

Somerset, Martins Additions

Rest of CCMD, Rest of Bethesda, close in Potomac outside of the above

Garret Park, Historic Kensington, further out potomac

North Bethesda, Forest Glen, historic Takoma Park

Rockville, close in silver spring, nice parts of Gaithersburg, cute historic part of Hyattsville

Mt Ranier, College Park

Far out silver spring, Cheverly, Bowie, rest of Gaithersburg

———————————————————-

^Sh*t tier demarcation line 💩🚨 💩🚨 💩 🚨

Aspen Hill, Glenmont (can debatably bump them up one slot out of the sh*t tier)

Wheaton, Takoma outside of the cute historic areas, Montgomery Village

West Hyattsville (away from Rt1)

Lanham, Landover

Oxon Hill, Suitland, Temple Hills

Waldorf

Oh thank good Mount Rainer made Tier 1, lest I be forced to move 🙄

Anonymous

11/28/2025 20:19 Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1:

Bethesda
Potomac
Chevy Chase
Gibson Island

Tier 1.5:

Kensington
Annapolis
Garrett Park
Travilah

Tier 2:

North Bethesda
North Potomac
Rockville (Wootton/WJ/RM school zones)
Clarksville/all of Western Howard County
Ellicott City
Gambrills
Davidsonville
Arnold
Mitchellville
Severna Park

Tier 2.5:

Gaithersburg
Bowie
Crofton
Odenton
Olney
Fort Washington
Takoma Park
Laytonsville
Columbia
Crownsville
Millersville
Upper Marlboro
Urbana

Tier 3:

Cape St Claire
Edgewater
Silver Spring
Germantown
Poolesville
Frederick
Elkridge
Laurel (Howard County portions)
Bowie
Hyattsville

Bowie appears twice, meant to have it in tier 3 only

Anonymous

11/28/2025 20:18 Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings

Tier 1:

Bethesda
Potomac
Chevy Chase
Gibson Island

Tier 1.5:

Kensington
Annapolis
Garrett Park
Travilah

Tier 2:

North Bethesda
North Potomac
Rockville (Wootton/WJ/RM school zones)
Clarksville/all of Western Howard County
Ellicott City
Gambrills
Davidsonville
Arnold
Mitchellville
Severna Park

Tier 2.5:

Gaithersburg
Bowie
Crofton
Odenton
Olney
Fort Washington
Takoma Park
Laytonsville
Columbia
Crownsville
Millersville
Upper Marlboro
Urbana

Tier 3:

Cape St Claire
Edgewater
Silver Spring
Germantown
Poolesville
Frederick
Elkridge
Laurel (Howard County portions)
Bowie
Hyattsville

Anonymous

11/28/2025 19:59 Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings

Love seeing Virginians talk about how much more prestigious they are than Maryland because of suburbs that are owned by the Saudi royal family that they themselves would never be able to buy into in a million years.

Anonymous

11/28/2025 13:26 Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings

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Anonymous wrote:Copying the NoVA thread. What are your thoughts?

Tier 1 is obviously Chevy Chase and Somerset. Don’t have a clue about the rest.

Just spent several days at a friend’s place in Chevy Chase for Thanksgiving. She lives in Brookdale which is in Chevy Chase MD and I’ll admit I was slightly excited to visit after always reading about the prestige of this neighborhood. It was not what I expected? Clean and quiet but the houses all looked old and many yards were unkempt. We took a walk after the big meal and I was surprised River rd cut right through her neighborhood. We live in Del Ray now and are contemplating a move to MD for various reasons and was not impressed by Chevy Chase.

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Brookdale isn’t one of the particularly nice spots. Nothing wrong with it but far from the most ideal in CCMD.

Anonymous

11/28/2025 13:01 Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings

Anonymous wrote:Copying the NoVA thread. What are your thoughts?

Tier 1 is obviously Chevy Chase and Somerset. Don’t have a clue about the rest.

Just spent several days at a friend’s place in Chevy Chase for Thanksgiving. She lives in Brookdale which is in Chevy Chase MD and I’ll admit I was slightly excited to visit after always reading about the prestige of this neighborhood. It was not what I expected? Clean and quiet but the houses all looked old and many yards were unkempt. We took a walk after the big meal and I was surprised River rd cut right through her neighborhood. We live in Del Ray now and are contemplating a move to MD for various reasons and was not impressed by Chevy Chase.

Anonymous

11/28/2025 11:23 Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings

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Anonymous wrote:NoVa master race! I own in Potomac though, so… insulated from most of bummy ass Maryland’s issues. Top schools. Intelligent, generally like-minded neighbors. Kids frolic in our huge green yards and inside play in our 5,000 sq ft SFH.

Really one of the only worthwhile places to live in this otherwise **** state.

You have to go to the movies, shopping, out to eat sometime. It’s a drag always having to deal with 495 traffic to go to VA and anywhere worthwhile on the weekends. Otherwise the only options are to go to Bethesda, which gets old after a while.

The hyperbole. There’s movie theaters in Bethesda, Rockville, and north Bethesda depending on where in Potomac you are. There’s no shopping you can’t do on the Maryland side. I go into DC way more often than I go into NoVa

All these theaters are dumps compared to the theaters in The Boro, Tysons 2 and Mosaic. I have never seen a crappier, overpriced theater than iPic in Pike and Rose.

Why are nova trolls always like this? It’s almost comical, like you’re are given a script when moving to nova. I don’t think about nova at all when living in moco and life is good

Comparing anything and everything. It’s just a movie theater. They’re all the same. Now most even have reclining seats

It’s not just movie theaters, it’s literally every amenity you can go to that’s nicer.

Loudoun, Fairfax, and Falls Church are three of the Top 10 richest counties in the country based on per capita income. More per capita income brings nicer, and more amenities and usually means less crime and a higher quality of life. This isn’t an edgy opinion. It’s just how things go.

You have barely any nature parks. MoCo has a neighborhood park nearly every .5 mile.

Anonymous

11/28/2025 11:13 Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings

These lists are missing Roland Park, Severna Park, Annapolis, Gibson Island, Clarksville, and Davidsonville. While they may be more oriented towards Baltimore, they’re still part of the state of Maryland and not super far from DC.

Anonymous

11/26/2025 14:23 Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings

Anonymous wrote:To bring things back on topic, Rockville is a much more “real” American city than Bethesda. People in Bethesda get satisfaction from telling others they live in Bethesda. It’s strivers all the way down. You can sense the anxiety of these people from a mile away

True, so sad

Anonymous

11/26/2025 14:11 Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings

Darnestown , has this been mentioned?

Anonymous

11/26/2025 10:54 Subject: Re:Suburban MD Prestige Rankings

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Maybe your friends in Arlington are diligently squirreling their money away in 529s, but I assure that ultra high net worth individuals are not using 529s, and there are plenty of ways to "harness the power of compounding" without putting your money into a 529. Lol

I’m late to the party here but just wanted to comment this is a statement that really makes you look dumb. Like really dumb.

I disagree. If you have enough money to have a financial advisor to manage trusts for your kids, why wouldn’t the financial advisor place some of the kid’s money through a 529? Why pay tax when you can pay no tax? Do you like paying taxes when you don’t have to? Sounds like you’re a dumb and poor W-2 wageslave.

The quote function didn’t work. The late to the party commenter was calling out as dumb the comment said UHNW’s aren’t using 529s

im the original "UHNW people use 529" poster. sorry, that actually makes sense. i had not noticed the quote feature did not work

Anonymous

11/25/2025 22:08 Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings

Montgomery county is more old money, nova is new money. To each their own.

Anonymous

11/25/2025 17:23 Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings

Anonymous wrote:Columbia MD

This!