Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:that is ... not how the economy works. sorry.

No, that’s just not how selfish people work. Keep your grinch fingers off of PG and South Arlington. They are not “investments,” they are places where people go to live when they need somewhere to live, many of those people being DC natives who are poor POC that were pushed out of their neighborhoods with you modern-day de-facto colonizers. If you want to live there, that’s fine, but it’s not an “investment.” It’s an existing community with people who already live there and have interests in staying there.

If you can’t afford “appreciation” in the areas that already appreciated and are continuing to do so, that’s your fault for not working hard enough in life, I guess.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
huh, so in your version of reality, it's a GOOD thing that the people who own real estate in PG County right now won't be able to enjoy the fruits of appreciation? Who do you think gets all of that appreciation when neighborhoods gentrify? And why do you assume that gentrification means displacement? And of course, gentrification and affordable housing are two separate topics.

There is a difference between healthy levels of appreciation—such that matches the growing economy and incomes of the region, and apprecification—which drives out longtime residents and destroys existing communities. Appreciation is fine, apprecification is not. Homes are meant for living, not for generating income. You want more income? Then use your own advice and “work harder” for a higher gs position and stop taking the lazy route by cutting into communities full of people who are working hard to be where they live, while you mooch off their communities “investments.” And again, it’s not the 1990s and early 2000s anymore. People are much more politically aware now, and they’re already fighting back. They’re noticing these premature signs, and they’re ringing the bells in their communities and to their local politicians. If you’re going to be so NIMBY in western burbs and feel entitled for the world to work around you and protect the value of your free income, then don’t get mad when other communities want to protect what they worked for from grinch fingers. Also, why are you asking me why I “assume” that gentrification means displacement? Do you know what the definition of it is? Because that’s exactly what it is.

Arlington, Silver Spring, and Takoma Park have apprecified. The inner-burbs of PG County are some of the last remaining places inside of the beltway that haven’t been gentrified, but they’re at high-risk of becoming gentrified, and have already started the premature stages of becoming gentrified. This is especially true for suburbs that are going to be along the new purple line (New Carrollton, Langely Park, etc). If you push these poor and working-class residents, don’t expect to have bus drivers, grocery store employees, janitors, maintenance workers, and other employees that support privileged lifestyles, because I promise you, they’re not going to come and support you when they’ve been pushed all the way out to Upper Marlboro and Charles County. There’s plenty of those jobs there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
huh, so in your version of reality, it's a GOOD thing that the people who own real estate in PG County right now won't be able to enjoy the fruits of appreciation? Who do you think gets all of that appreciation when neighborhoods gentrify? And why do you assume that gentrification means displacement? And of course, gentrification and affordable housing are two separate topics.

There is a difference between healthy levels of appreciation—such that matches the growing economy and incomes of the region, and apprecification—which drives out longtime residents and destroys existing communities. Appreciation is fine, apprecification is not. Homes are meant for living, not for generating income. You want more income? Then use your own advice and “work harder” for a higher gs position and stop taking the lazy route by cutting into communities full of people who are working hard to be where they live, while you mooch off their communities “investments.” And again, it’s not the 1990s and early 2000s anymore. People are much more politically aware now, and they’re already fighting back. They’re noticing these premature signs, and they’re ringing the bells in their communities and to their local politicians. If you’re going to be so NIMBY in western burbs and feel entitled for the world to work around you and protect the value of your free income, then don’t get mad when other communities want to protect what they worked for from grinch fingers. Also, why are you asking me why I “assume” that gentrification means displacement? Do you know what the definition of it is? Because that’s exactly what it is.

Arlington, Silver Spring, and Takoma Park have apprecified. The inner-burbs of PG County are some of the last remaining places inside of the beltway that haven’t been gentrified, but they’re at high-risk of becoming gentrified, and have already started the premature stages of becoming gentrified. This is especially true for suburbs that are going to be along the new purple line (New Carrollton, Langely Park, etc). If you push these poor and working-class residents, don’t expect to have bus drivers, grocery store employees, janitors, maintenance workers, and other employees that support privileged lifestyles, because I promise you, they’re not going to come and support you when they’ve been pushed all the way out to Upper Marlboro and Charles County. There’s plenty of those jobs there.

Anonymous wrote:
huh, so in your version of reality, it's a GOOD thing that the people who own real estate in PG County right now won't be able to enjoy the fruits of appreciation? Who do you think gets all of that appreciation when neighborhoods gentrify? And why do you assume that gentrification means displacement? And of course, gentrification and affordable housing are two separate topics.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Takoma, Silver Spring, and neighborhoods on the Purple Line (which will get built eventually.)

will it? Because the vendor pulling out, costs doubling and a indefinite hold due to COVID doesn't seem very encouraging.

Also be careful taking advice from someone who clearly lives where they are boosting like this person. Any investor will tell you to be careful with stuff that has already gone up in price. You want the next big thing not the current. Besides Takoma Park and Silver Spring are capped at how much they can go up because the are compromise areas that are tied to the prices of the more desirable MoCo areas. Silver Spring will never cost more than Kensignton and Kensignton will never cost more than Bethesda while Bethesda is affected by Chevy Chase and Somerset

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Takoma, Silver Spring, and neighborhoods on the Purple Line (which will get built eventually.)

will it? Because the vendor pulling out, costs doubling and a indefinite hold due to COVID doesn't seem very encouraging.

Also be careful taking advice from someone who clearly lives where they are boosting like this person. Any investor will tell you to be careful with stuff that has already gone up in price. You want the next big thing not the current. Besides Takoma Park and Silver Spring are capped at how much they can go up because the are compromise areas that are tied to the prices of the more desirable MoCo areas. Silver Spring will never cost more than Kensignton and Kensignton will never cost more than Bethesda while Bethesda is affected by Chevy Chase and Somerset

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:that is ... not how the economy works. sorry.

No, that’s just not how selfish people work. Keep your grinch fingers off of PG and South Arlington. They are not “investments,” they are places where people go to live when they need somewhere to live, many of those people being DC natives who are poor POC that were pushed out of their neighborhoods with you modern-day de-facto colonizers. If you want to live there, that’s fine, but it’s not an “investment.” It’s an existing community with people who already live there and have interests in staying there.

If you can’t afford “appreciation” in the areas that already appreciated and are continuing to do so, that’s your fault for not working hard enough in life, I guess.

I know it's frustrating when the world doesn't work as you wish it did, but these changes are coming.

We don’t live in the day and age where these other suburbs got gentrified. The younger generations are a lot more involved in politics, and there’s already lots of conversations among PG residents about pushing back against gentrification, and many new politicians are directly targeting against this. If you NIMBYs protest against workforce housing in Bethesda, people living in PG have a right to protest against selfish assholes pricing them out of their neighborhoods as well. You can live there if you want to live there, but it’s not a place to go because you want to gentrify it and price current residents out. You’re gross.

Anonymous wrote:EOTR, around annacostia and Ward 8. Lots of development coming up and big money is investing.

Anonymous wrote:Takoma, Silver Spring, and neighborhoods on the Purple Line (which will get built eventually.)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Invest in ghettos like south Arlington but live in the the north

Oh sweetie, this is DCUM not MONA.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything along or near the VA beltway between Alexandria and Tysons (e.g., Rose Hill, Franconia, Springfield, West Springfield, Burke, Annandale).

I have been hearing about this for a while but only a certain pockets are seeing the appreciation.