Anonymous
12/08/2025 16:56
Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Way too many Anne Arundel County spots on here. Odenton? Gambrills? Come on now.
And what’s wrong with that? Odenton and Gambrills are both upper-middle-class suburbs with good schools. They are absolutely comparable to places in their “tier.” In fact, Odenton/Gambrills have better schools than almost every other town in their “tier” (sorry Blair, even people all the way out here are highly aware that your school is garbage and that magnet kids from Bethesda push up the rankings).
Odenton/Gambrills are Clarksburg/Damascus, be serious
Anonymous
12/08/2025 08:18
Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Annapolis is not part of the DMV. I don’t care about your 1700s town and your social climbing. I care about my post war suburb and the social climbing therein
Anonymous
12/08/2025 08:03
Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
We’re on DC urban mom dot com
Anonymous
12/07/2025 16:03
Subject: Re:Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
People in this thread seem to forget that Maryland is larger than the DC burbs. Nothing in the original post told anyone to limit to DC burbs.
Anonymous
12/07/2025 16:00
Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Anonymous wrote: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
Way too many Anne Arundel County spots on here. Odenton? Gambrills? Come on now.
And what’s wrong with that? Odenton and Gambrills are both upper-middle-class suburbs with good schools. They are absolutely comparable to places in their “tier.” In fact, Odenton/Gambrills have better schools than almost every other town in their “tier” (sorry Blair, even people all the way out here are highly aware that your school is garbage and that magnet kids from Bethesda push up the rankings).
Anonymous
12/07/2025 15:57
Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Very few people, if any, are commuting from here to DC. Clearly this thread is about DC suburbs. Besides, Gibson Island is a second home destination with few year-round residents. Roland Park is part of Baltimore and has declined a lot over the past few decades (in terms of both wealth and prestige), and is quite clearly not a DC suburb. Davidsonville is a suburb of Annapolis and is largely trashy exurbs. Clarksville, aside from horse farms, is not even in the discussion, and is not a suburb of DC in any real way. Annapolis is nice but not a DC suburb, and is only prestigious if you are on the deep water or in the historic downtown, and then is not really all that prestigious. Severna Park is the North Bethesda of Annapolis. I mean, the whole discussion is stupid, but this is even stupider.
Saying that North Bethesda is Severna Park is laughable. Severna Park is real prestige and old money. North Bethesda is just Rockville a cluster of chains, townhomes, and cookie cutter NVHomes on a crowded highway while trying to be pretentious. North Bethesda is just a more expensive version of Crofton or Odenton. Severna Park is closer to Chevy Chase if anything.
Anonymous
12/06/2025 08:17
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
Way too many Anne Arundel County spots on here. Odenton? Gambrills? Come on now.
Anonymous
12/06/2025 04:22
Subject: Re:Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Instead of "prestige," don't you just mean richest?
These places do not hold "prestige" to me. The top ones are just where rich people live or people who inherited a lot of generational wealth...
There's also the race aspect. The "top ones" are the whiter areas, so this list is basically saying (according to one poster) that POC live in the "sh-t" areas.
Really nice.
I'm sure your mom would be proud. lol Well, I guess this is what your parent taught you to do...
Where do POCs with a lot of money move to? If these areas are as nice as you claim, wouldn’t rich POCs who work at NIH, the World Bank, and places like this live in Wheaton and Montgomery Village rather than Potomac and Bethesda? If Wheaton and Montgomery Village are objectively nicer and it is all just racial bias, then rich POCs would be bidding up houses in these areas correct?
It’s wealth bias not racial bias.
If you had $50M would you live in Potomac, Wheaton, Montgomery Village, or Bethesda?
Be honest.
Mclean
Anonymous
12/03/2025 06:52
Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Guess what? You are all middle class strivers as you all work. You know nothing about 1%’ers and never will. Keep striving and stressing out over where to live.
Speak for yourself. I got 6 mill across retirement and brokerage accounts, a house in Rockville with a metal roof, new water heater (and new heater, if you know what I mean). Nobody can mess with me. I draw 200k a year and don’t need to work
lmfao. you don’t even want me to list out what I’ve got.
Do it, nobody is stopping you! Just showing the crowd that even in “tier 2” Rockville, one lives extremely well. I don’t have a 100 year old Craftsman in Bethesda to impress others. But I got financial security and quality of life, that’s for sure. I’m able to draw more money than 98% of households get in a year by working
Anonymous
12/02/2025 20:55
Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Guess what? You are all middle class strivers as you all work. You know nothing about 1%’ers and never will. Keep striving and stressing out over where to live.
Speak for yourself. I got 6 mill across retirement and brokerage accounts, a house in Rockville with a metal roof, new water heater (and new heater, if you know what I mean). Nobody can mess with me. I draw 200k a year and don’t need to work
lmfao. you don’t even want me to list out what I’ve got.
Anonymous
12/02/2025 10:50
Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Guess what? You are all middle class strivers as you all work. You know nothing about 1%’ers and never will. Keep striving and stressing out over where to live.
Speak for yourself. I got 6 mill across retirement and brokerage accounts, a house in Rockville with a metal roof, new water heater (and new heater, if you know what I mean). Nobody can mess with me. I draw 200k a year and don’t need to work
you ain't in the 1% bud
Anonymous
12/02/2025 06:39
Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Anonymous wrote:Guess what? You are all middle class strivers as you all work. You know nothing about 1%’ers and never will. Keep striving and stressing out over where to live.
Speak for yourself. I got 6 mill across retirement and brokerage accounts, a house in Rockville with a metal roof, new water heater (and new heater, if you know what I mean). Nobody can mess with me. I draw 200k a year and don’t need to work
Anonymous
12/02/2025 02:20
Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Guess what? You are all middle class strivers as you all work. You know nothing about 1%’ers and never will. Keep striving and stressing out over where to live.
Anonymous
12/02/2025 02:09
Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tier 1:
Chevy Chase
Somerset
Potomac
Bethesda
Tier 2:
Takoma Park
North Bethesda
Kensington
Nicer parts of Silver Spring (Woodside area, Rock Creek Forest etc.)
Rockville
Tier 3:
Olney
Gaithersburg
Further out Silver Spring
Tier 4:
Wheaton
Aspen hill
Germantown
Montgomery village
You missed number one. Travilah
OMG the money in Travilah is crazy. The houses massive. It is a subset of Potomac but it is all big ass mansions.
Not a subset of Potomac even if it calls itself No Potomac. It’s actually Gaitherburg.
+1
I live in North Potomac. - Ok, so Gaithersburg.
I live in the Kentlands - right. Which is Gaithersburg
I live in Crown- umm. No. You live in Gaithersburg
It’s allllll Gaithersburg!
Anonymous
12/01/2025 12:47
Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Anonymous wrote: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.
Very few people, if any, are commuting from here to DC. Clearly this thread is about DC suburbs. Besides, Gibson Island is a second home destination with few year-round residents. Roland Park is part of Baltimore and has declined a lot over the past few decades (in terms of both wealth and prestige), and is quite clearly not a DC suburb. Davidsonville is a suburb of Annapolis and is largely trashy exurbs. Clarksville, aside from horse farms, is not even in the discussion, and is not a suburb of DC in any real way. Annapolis is nice but not a DC suburb, and is only prestigious if you are on the deep water or in the historic downtown, and then is not really all that prestigious. Severna Park is the North Bethesda of Annapolis. I mean, the whole discussion is stupid, but this is even stupider.