Anonymous wrote:My experience of the area over the past 20 years: more jobs, more people, more diversity, more traffic congestion, and progressively higher COL.

Have lived in VA and MD for the past 20 years and I agree.

Will also add that there has been a marked decline in the school system, at least in MCPS.

My experience of the area over the past 20 years: more jobs, more people, more diversity, more traffic congestion, and progressively higher COL.

Anonymous wrote:We elected a REpublican mayor in Rockville

No you didn't.

We elected a REpublican mayor in Rockville

Anonymous wrote:It's an absolute myth that rural areas are safer. Rural areas typically have the highest crime rates, particularly violent crime; the only place that comes close are the most dangerous urban areas.

NP here. I went looking for the statistics, and it's kind of a mixed bag. Crime is way up in rural areas (https://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-crime-rural-urban-cities.html) and it is dropping in cities. So the trend lines are going the right way for cities and the wrong way for rural areas, but urban zones remain more dangerous right now.

With that said, I grew up in a rural area that absolutely felt more dangerous than the city where I live now. The reasons why are pretty clear. The area where I grew up is absolutely awash in guns, and the loss of the primary industry means that poverty skyrocketed throughout the period of my youth. So you have guns, poverty, and drugs all in one toxic soup. Add underfunded social services and law enforcement and you have a perfect storm for violence.

Official stats to base discussion in facts.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/pol/crime/stats.html

In other news, poster from Chevy Chase upset that Montgomery County's only affordable shopping area packed, people arriving on buses to shop there.

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Anonymous wrote:I was born and raised in montgomery county . When I was a kid you’d constantly see pickup trucks with shotgun racks. Not any more but crime is up

What part of the county were you raised in? I grew up in Chevy Chase, and don’t think I ever saw that. After college, I was pretty excited to go up 270 to Walmart for cheap stuff. Went there last month for the first time in maybe 15 years, and I was approached by there beggars asking for money before I even walked in the store. It was a weekday, and the place was packed. The bus stop was jammed. Yes, the county has changed, and not in a good way.

You're upset because there were lots of people at the Walmart at Milestone Germantown on a weekday, and there were lots of people at the bus stop next to the Walmart?

OK person who grew up in Chevy Chase.

Anonymous wrote:It's an absolute myth that rural areas are safer. Rural areas typically have the highest crime rates, particularly violent crime; the only place that comes close are the most dangerous urban areas.

Care to support that statement with data?

Anonymous wrote:When I moved here in 1994 there was still a dairy farm on Rockville Pike. I don't remember gun racks though.

King farm?

Anonymous wrote:I was born and raised in montgomery county . When I was a kid you’d constantly see pickup trucks with shotgun racks. Not any more but crime is up

What part of the county were you raised in? I grew up in Chevy Chase, and don’t think I ever saw that. After college, I was pretty excited to go up 270 to Walmart for cheap stuff. Went there last month for the first time in maybe 15 years, and I was approached by there beggars asking for money before I even walked in the store. It was a weekday, and the place was packed. The bus stop was jammed. Yes, the county has changed, and not in a good way.

Anonymous wrote:It's an absolute myth that rural areas are safer. Rural areas typically have the highest crime rates, particularly violent crime; the only place that comes close are the most dangerous urban areas.

that must explain vermont then eh?

It's an absolute myth that rural areas are safer. Rural areas typically have the highest crime rates, particularly violent crime; the only place that comes close are the most dangerous urban areas.

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Anonymous wrote:I see pickup trucks every day. Tons of them. Of course, they are being driven by Brown people, so OP thinks they must be on their way to criming.

Crime is down. That's just an empirical and statistical fact. It doesn't mean crime doesn't exist, but rather that demographic shifts have not led to increased crime, is only surprising if you are racist.

i said pickup trucks with shotgun tacos and prosecutions of crimes are down. Crime isn’t down

Evidence for “prosecutions of crimes are down,” please.

woke prosecutors dripping charges or getting defendants to plea to much less serious crimes.

You seem to not understand what “evidence” is and yet you are opining on prosecutions.

You clearly didn’t live in Rockville. crime was higher than it is now