Anonymous wrote:That’s Rockville and if I wanna be more specific, White Flint.

This. White Flint mall was IN Rockville. You zipped up Rockville pike to go to Rockville to go to the White Flint mall. Anything after that is even Rockville too. Not sure how this is confusing. And White Flint is still a great name for the area. Everyone knows where that is. Where the Dave & Buster's was!

Anonymous wrote:It’s rockville. I’ve lived here my entire life (different parts of rockville) and calling it north Bethesda is a joke imo. It’s a status thing for real estate as is north Potomac. I used to live in a part of Rockville (20854) within the Rockville city limits and my mail was routed through the post office at River and Falls. So many people called it Potomac. I never did as it was not actually Potomac.

Lived here since 1975, and 20854 is Potomac.

That’s Rockville and if I wanna be more specific, White Flint.

Well language is used to describe things.

If you say you live in Rockville people will imagine you live near Rockville Metro maybe to Twinbrook Metro.

I grew up in Rockville, but I never really said Rockville. I always said Twinbrook because I didn’t live near downtown Rockville.

I work in North Bethesda and I would never say north Bethesda. I tell people I work near White Flint metro, but white Flint is gone and so is White Flint Metro. It’s called North Bethesda now.

So if I lived in North Bethesda, I might say, North Bethesda. I wouldn’t put it as my mailing address though.

Part of the dump of Rockville..

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Anonymous wrote:Rockville for the sane, north Bethesda for the strivers. Like a previous PP said, a more appropriate is South Rockville. That area matches with Rockville far better than legit Bethesda

The strivers have always been the people who police this sort of thing. No one else cares!

+1. Like it or not, North Bethesda is a useful description. People know where it is.

Exactly. Do you really want to spend your time explaining it’s where a mall or an arby’s or a buy buy buy baby used to
be? Get over yourself.

It’s rockville. I’ve lived here my entire life (different parts of rockville) and calling it north Bethesda is a joke imo. It’s a status thing for real estate as is north Potomac. I used to live in a part of Rockville (20854) within the Rockville city limits and my mail was routed through the post office at River and Falls. So many people called it Potomac. I never did as it was not actually Potomac.

This always reminds me of the debate on whether that part of Fairfax County south of 495 should be called “Alexandria.”

I think it’s bizarre to say you live in Alexandria but you’re not paying taxes to Alexandria or when you call the police you're calling Fairfax County.

At least it’s easy to distinguish Bethesda from North Bethesda. Maybe we should make it Alexandria and South Alexandria.

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Anonymous wrote:Rockville for the sane, north Bethesda for the strivers. Like a previous PP said, a more appropriate is South Rockville. That area matches with Rockville far better than legit Bethesda

The strivers have always been the people who police this sort of thing. No one else cares!

+1. Like it or not, North Bethesda is a useful description. People know where it is.

Anonymous wrote:Rockville for the sane, north Bethesda for the strivers. Like a previous PP said, a more appropriate is South Rockville. That area matches with Rockville far better than legit Bethesda

The strivers have always been the people who police this sort of thing. No one else cares!

Anonymous wrote:I have lived in MoCo since 1995. North Bethesda was a term then only used by people who were under age 35 and lived in that area (a small group). Then, the redevelopment occurred and the developers grabbed onto the term to try to bring cache to the area. North Bethesda is not the same as the names of other unincorporated areas of the county like Bethesda or Silver Spring. But, times change and now a large crop of people have normalized the term North Bethesda.

Now for the spin off - North Potomac or Germantown …

Gaithersburg

20852 is Rockville. Embarrassing to call it north Bethesda.

Rockville for the sane, north Bethesda for the strivers. Like a previous PP said, a more appropriate is South Rockville. That area matches with Rockville far better than legit Bethesda

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Anonymous wrote:I always called it White Flint, and I still do. I don’t care if the mall is gone, but I’ve always sticked to that name.

I call it “past White Flint where toys r us was.”

Haha same

Honestly this is the point — there is a space between Rockville and Bethesda

Yeah it’s called “past white flint.” It’s where you go for obscure businesses that might be part warehouse. Like do you need a hot tub? They probably sell them out there. That one store that is the only place you can buy fireplaces and patio furniture for some reason? It’s out there past white flint! Fabric, obviously. And the only Arby’s, should you require one for some reason.

That Arby’s has closed, RIP. And just as they brought back potato cakes!

Well sheet. First they came for La Madeleine, and I said nothing.

Rockville.