OP here.

To the person who asked, yes, if my company moved to Rockville I would quit. Better, I would never work for a company that would even consider Rockville an option.

Likewise, Poolsville is 11 miles from where? Cumberland? Sorry, the word "rural" scares me.

For us, it sounds like Kensington/Silver Spring/Takoma Park toss up

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poolesville has a cancer cluster, possibly linked to the drinking water.

Not true. However, I wouldn't live in MoCo if a good education for my children is a primary goal. No school system that claims to be "urban" can provide a good education.

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Anonymous wrote:Poolesville has a cancer cluster, possibly linked to the drinking water.

Not true. However, I wouldn't live in MoCo if a good education for my children is a primary goal. No school system that claims to be "urban" can provide a good education.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure what to say to the previous two posters. How is it that you think urban must be bad? Is it the presence of tall buildings, subways, etc., or maybe minorities?

I'm 13:05, and I'm surprised that you didn't see the sarcasm in my response. But thanks for drawing the race card, though.

Don't be surprised. Very few DCUMers get irony. Promoting the superiority of their own choices is serious business.

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure what to say to the previous two posters. How is it that you think urban must be bad? Is it the presence of tall buildings, subways, etc., or maybe minorities?

I'm 13:05, and I'm surprised that you didn't see the sarcasm in my response. But thanks for drawing the race card, though.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure what to say to the previous two posters. How is it that you think urban must be bad? Is it the presence of tall buildings, subways, etc., or maybe minorities?

Please keep your desire to pull race into everything in check.

Urban school systems like MCPS have an emphasis on closing the gap. That does not usually mean a high end or challenging curriculum. Move to an area where the schools don't have dumb ass goals.

My God I have never seen a site where the majority of people have their panties in such a wad! Each time that the word "urban" or a similar word is mentioned there are those who automatically assume that someone is trying to inject race into a discussion. Lighten up people.

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure what to say to the previous two posters. How is it that you think urban must be bad? Is it the presence of tall buildings, subways, etc., or maybe minorities?

Please keep your desire to pull race into everything in check.

Urban school systems like MCPS have an emphasis on closing the gap. That does not usually mean a high end or challenging curriculum. Move to an area where the schools don't have dumb ass goals.

I'm not sure what to say to the previous two posters. How is it that you think urban must be bad? Is it the presence of tall buildings, subways, etc., or maybe minorities?

^^^I know! That's why I didn't attend Columbia University. They kept promoting the "urban" environment when I toured the school. I kept thinking to myself, how can this school be good?

Anonymous wrote:Poolesville has a cancer cluster, possibly linked to the drinking water.

Not true. However, I wouldn't live in MoCo if a good education for my children is a primary goal. No school system that claims to be "urban" can provide a good education.

Anonymous wrote:Poolesville has a cancer cluster, possibly linked to the drinking water.

The feds proved otherwise several years ago. There was no cluster.

Poolesville has a cancer cluster, possibly linked to the drinking water.

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Many people think its "far out" but in fact Poolesville is only 11 miles to Quince Orchard.

And Quince Orchard is 15 miles from anywhere where I would want to live, work or otherwise go.

In other words "my shit doesn't stink".

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Many people think its "far out" but in fact Poolesville is only 11 miles to Quince Orchard.

And Quince Orchard is 15 miles from anywhere where I would want to live, work or otherwise go.

You really care where you work. If your work moved to Gaithersburg you would quit?

^ PP again - I wanted to add that I know Kensington and Garrett Park are sort of little communities, but I mean there's nothing like you find in the suburbs of the Northeast, where the schools are truly local and serve an entire town.