The new Greatschools rankings are up - the middle schools and Bowie HS improved.

Your money goes a long way in Bowie, the schools are good, and I just did the drive into downtown DC one morning to test it out - not bad!

Anonymous wrote:Where is Cloverly, MD, or did you mean Cheverly?

Cloverly is the Northern part of Silver Spring, roughly US-29 just north of 495 (a good distance from downtown Silver Spring, even though it still has a Silver Spring mailing address.)

Where is Cloverly, MD, or did you mean Cheverly?

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Anonymous wrote:Crofton is even blander than Bowie and it will be the "new" Bowie in 10 years....and then all scared Crofton-ites will move to Millersville and Crownsville.

Ha ha! Totally true. In fact, I think the new shopping has drawn people to Crofton that the current Crofton-ites moved there to get away from. And so it goes...

Agree completely. I graduated from Bowie High School in 1999. At that time, it wasn't a terrible school and the elementary schools were great. Many families had SAHMs with dad working in government, because it was an affordable place to live. Bowie was the one predominantly white part of Prince George's County at the time. Things quickly changed and I do not blame the "browning" of Bowie on the schools' demise, as many of the families moving in were certainly solidly middle class families. The system is fraught with many problems and hopefully the new leadership will bring about some change.

Elementary schools in Bowie are still decent. Middle and High is debatable. My parents still live there in a neighborhood that is family oriented, well cared for and welcoming to all.

Many of the parents of my high school friends fled to Crofton, Millersville or Crownsville and if they couldn't afford it, they went down south, to Calvert or St. Mary's Counties. They couldn't bear to live in such a black place, even with no school age children. Joke's on them, because now their commutes are abysmal. The Crownsville people are staring down a 2 hour commute to the district, compared to the 45 minutes during heavy rush our from Bowie (plus accessibility to New Carrollton Metro).

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Anonymous wrote:Crofton, MD has better schools and is Anne Arundel county. All the newer stores are in Crofton (hello Wegmans, my love), and I imagine resale value is better.

You had me at Wegman's.

There is a Wegmen's close to Bowie!

Seriously. People there is a Wegmans right off of 495 like 5 minutes from Bowie.

Actually the Lanham Wegman's is about 15 minutes from Bowie, but still not too far. Just not the convenient local supermarket.

Wegman's is not all that. I went to one and everybody was in such a hurry, no one says excuse me any more after bumping into you. It was crowded and congested on a Sunday afternoon. All I got from it was a bunch of snobbish, pretentious folks, who act like they are entitled....so over Wegman's!

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Anonymous wrote:Nice houses in our safe, family friendly neighborhood in Silver Spring, 20901, for $450K. They aren't huge, fancy, new houses (more like Cape Cods from the 30s and 40s) but it's convenient and you get MoCo schools.

That's down county right. Not the same as the good MOCO schools.

You don't know what you speak. Montgomery Blair is down county and it's up there with the best in MOCO.