Anonymous wrote:https://www.bisnow.com/washington-dc/news/neighborhood/cameron-pratt-on-why-montgomery-county-has-fallen-behind-northern-virginia-99668

Please see link how Montgomery county has fallen behind northern Va

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Anonymous wrote:When you get off the beltway on Georgetown pike and drive down balls hill road or Churchill road there’s lots of new construction houses just like the rest of McLean - it’s looks like thriving - then you get to McLean and there’s grocery stores restaurants etc. its not over crowded? if you get off the beltway and drive up seven locks road for example there’s not that thriving feel and no where really equivalent in MD. The Giant and Safeway shipping center are old and overcrowded -

Also McLean they maintain the roads and the utilities underground! There aren’t utility lines everywhere etc. I don’t understand why the infrastructure is so bad and outdated in Potomac?

Do you live in Potomac?

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Anonymous wrote:The shopping center you're describing is actually in Rockville. Well actually, the city limit cuts through the larger development: the townhouses and Harris Teeter and Founding Farmers are on the edge of Potomac. The Quincy's shopping center is entirely in Rockville (also on the edge).

I think of this area as no-mans-land 270 between the two.

The only two shopping centers with actual "Potomac vibes" are Potomac Falls (Falls and River) and Cabin John (Seven Locks and Tuckerman). The former is "old Potomac" where you'll find more old guard and the later is more busy-family. But both are decidedly upper middle class to rich feeling Potomac experiences. The shopping center with Quincys and Walgreens and the UPS and liquor stores is...not. It's fine though! Perfectly nice!

This is pretty accurate. The cabin John space is in my mind similar to the Wildwood center by old Georgetown rd in terms of the “bougie” shops (balducci, the trattorias). Park Potomac has some nice coffee spots and the delis that appeal more to a retiree crowd (Attman’s, Brooklyn’s)

OP you should go to Falls Rd and River Rd. Maybe that’s what you have in mind. Not sure what kind of shopping you’re looking for though…the coffee and baked goods is good in all of these spots. None of them is a place to shop for clothing really

OP is not trying to shop. He heard growing up Potomac was very rich.Now he’s grown up he drove to Park Potomac to see rich people and fancy boutiques he was underwhelmed because the people and the shops seem regular.

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Anonymous wrote:The shopping center you're describing is actually in Rockville. Well actually, the city limit cuts through the larger development: the townhouses and Harris Teeter and Founding Farmers are on the edge of Potomac. The Quincy's shopping center is entirely in Rockville (also on the edge).

I think of this area as no-mans-land 270 between the two.

The only two shopping centers with actual "Potomac vibes" are Potomac Falls (Falls and River) and Cabin John (Seven Locks and Tuckerman). The former is "old Potomac" where you'll find more old guard and the later is more busy-family. But both are decidedly upper middle class to rich feeling Potomac experiences. The shopping center with Quincys and Walgreens and the UPS and liquor stores is...not. It's fine though! Perfectly nice!

This is pretty accurate. The cabin John space is in my mind similar to the Wildwood center by old Georgetown rd in terms of the “bougie” shops (balducci, the trattorias). Park Potomac has some nice coffee spots and the delis that appeal more to a retiree crowd (Attman’s, Brooklyn’s)

OP you should go to Falls Rd and River Rd. Maybe that’s what you have in mind. Not sure what kind of shopping you’re looking for though…the coffee and baked goods is good in all of these spots. None of them is a place to shop for clothing really

Anonymous wrote:This entire thread is baffling. Why is someone who lives in NoVa so incensed by a shopping center in the MD suburbs?

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people from the Northeast or from abroad (eg asian, Indian diaspora) so obsessed with things being “prestigious”?

Park Potomac is a perfectly nice, affluent shopping area. The deli spots are packed with retirees every day during lunch time. The Quincy’s bar is where divorcees go flirt. The residences around it are definitely pricey, given they’re mostly condos and townhomes

The only knock against it is that it’s next to the highway. But you dont really “hang out” there, you go to a shop and leave

Somebody should tell you in case nobody in your social circle does not: you are being weird!

Let me reframe. Why is Park Potomac so low class? I thought Potomac was supposed to be nice but the socio economic demographic makeup of Quincy’s for MNF is something I’d expect in Germantown. I’ve seen more upscale crowds in sports bars in Columbia Heights.

Being a weird upwardly mobile striver is low-class behavior. People can smell your desperation.

Anonymous wrote:When you get off the beltway on Georgetown pike and drive down balls hill road or Churchill road there’s lots of new construction houses just like the rest of McLean - it’s looks like thriving - then you get to McLean and there’s grocery stores restaurants etc. its not over crowded? if you get off the beltway and drive up seven locks road for example there’s not that thriving feel and no where really equivalent in MD. The Giant and Safeway shipping center are old and overcrowded -

Also McLean they maintain the roads and the utilities underground! There aren’t utility lines everywhere etc. I don’t understand why the infrastructure is so bad and outdated in Potomac?

Anonymous wrote:When you get off the beltway on Georgetown pike and drive down balls hill road or Churchill road there’s lots of new construction houses just like the rest of McLean - it’s looks like thriving - then you get to McLean and there’s grocery stores restaurants etc. its not over crowded? if you get off the beltway and drive up seven locks road for example there’s not that thriving feel and no where really equivalent in MD. The Giant and Safeway shipping center are old and overcrowded -

Also McLean they maintain the roads and the utilities underground! There aren’t utility lines everywhere etc. I don’t understand why the infrastructure is so bad and outdated in Potomac?

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people from the Northeast or from abroad (eg asian, Indian diaspora) so obsessed with things being “prestigious”?

Park Potomac is a perfectly nice, affluent shopping area. The deli spots are packed with retirees every day during lunch time. The Quincy’s bar is where divorcees go flirt. The residences around it are definitely pricey, given they’re mostly condos and townhomes

The only knock against it is that it’s next to the highway. But you dont really “hang out” there, you go to a shop and leave

Somebody should tell you in case nobody in your social circle does not: you are being weird!

Let me reframe. Why is Park Potomac so low class? I thought Potomac was supposed to be nice but the socio economic demographic makeup of Quincy’s for MNF is something I’d expect in Germantown. I’ve seen more upscale crowds in sports bars in Columbia Heights.

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Anonymous wrote:^ I don’t know what to tell you. I’m not out here saving tons of money from the lack of spending options. A lot of things I guess I get from DC itself and because I work in the city, it’s less out of the way for me than going to Tysons. For example, I get dress shoes from Alden or Allen Edmonds and both are in DC. I just found out there’s an Allen Edmonds in Tyson’s, which is good to know. I do feel more connected to DC living in MoCo than to the nova side, and I think a lot of the county residents feel that way

The drive from Bethesda to Alden shoes takes as long as the drive from Silver Spring to Baltimore.

The Fed gravy train is over and MoCo can’t afford to be a bedroom community anymore. It needs to catch up.