Anonymous
Post 02/19/2023 22:57     Subject: Oh, Maryland, what happened to you?
If MD's eastern shore and western panhandle were 5x the size, plus add an extra half-Baltimore for a small city, so now MD is sbout the same size as VA, then MD would be WAY more of a doo doo hole comparatively.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2023 22:53     Subject: Oh, Maryland, what happened to you?
These stupid Va threads have to be started by high schoolers. I can't imagine an adult “repping their hood” to this magnitude and hating on another state. How utterly moronic and childish.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2023 22:12     Subject: Oh, Maryland, what happened to you?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The VA vs Maryland threads used to be somewhat funny but now they are just played out and overdone. It doesn't escape me that Virginians are always the ones starting the pettiness. Other than the drivers, figure out what your true issues are and deal with them silently.


As someone who lives in VA and works in MD, you have to understand what a culture shock it is to drive though and see cracking streets, construction projects that never budge forward, badly designed infrastructure, etc. It is a pretty huge difference. That's probably why the threads are mostly started by VA people


As someone who lives in Bethesda and occasionally visits NoVA, you have to understand how shocking it is to see so many ugly roads with little to no tree cover, and odd neighborhoods. Living is better in MD.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2023 22:10     Subject: Oh, Maryland, what happened to you?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Funny, I only see roadside panhandlers in DC and Virginia. In Bethesda/Rockville we have the rose sellers.


Panhandlers at almost every intersection of 355 in Rockville moving up toward Gaithersburg. Don't know about the southern parts.


MoCo County Council working hard to import panhandlers to Bethesda in the name of equity.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2023 21:49     Subject: Oh, Maryland, what happened to you?
Anonymous wrote:Maryland didn’t used to be the Richest state in the country but now it is.

The country is dying and Maryland is rising.



Please put the bong down, it's late and you have work tomorrow, oh wait, I got that last part wrong I'm sure.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2023 21:48     Subject: Oh, Maryland, what happened to you?
Maryland didn’t used to be the Richest state in the country but now it is.

The country is dying and Maryland is rising.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2023 21:37     Subject: Oh, Maryland, what happened to you?
Good news! Most of us can choose where we want to live and don’t need to visit places we hate. Problem solved.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2023 21:34     Subject: Oh, Maryland, what happened to you?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Bethesda and made my way over to Virginia after college due to better work prospects in Virginia. My parents finally left Maryland a few years ago and we don’t go back often. I traveled to Bethesda and Rockville yesterday for the first time in about a year. What struck me the most:

-panhandlers at every side of all the major intersections. I’m shocked Montgomery county allows that.

-why on earth did they take 1/3 of a major artery (Old Georgetown Road) and close it off for bike traffic? Want to know how may bicyclists I saw using that section of the road? Exactly zero.

-I almost hit two pedestrians in two completely different areas who stepped in front of my car in the middle of the block when they were looking at their phones. Neither of them ever seemed to even notice I was there.

-I also almost got hit four separate times by people either pulling into traffic from the side streets without caring if it was clear, or realizing they wanted to turn at the next intersection when they were several lanes over.

Is it entitlement? Or do people in Maryland just tend to have their heads up their rears? I couldn’t figure it out but the vibe there is so different than it was when I was growing up there (in the 70’s and 80’s) and so different from Virginia. How do people stomach living there these days?


To be fair, it’s not MD. Problem is MOCO


Oh please, I'm no fan of MOCO and left the social experiment of hell a long time ago. But Columbia and Annapolis have plenty of gang and drug crime with their malls/shopping centers and that of Towson having restrictions on being in the malls without an adult supervisor if you are under 18. That's 18 people, a 16 cannot walk in those malls without a parent, seriously, that's not good and certainly is a small example of the underlying issues that plague the state of Maryland. Let's not forget the shoot up culture in Baltimore City spilling over to Baltimore County these days, and don't give me the gun lecture, these kids are out of f g control! I do not live in Virginia so I am not Virginia Strong! and all that entails, it certainly has it's own problems, but coming onto this board and acting as though Maryland is as great as it once was is beyond laughable. They are continuing to bleed businesses and higher end tax payers, the walls are crumbling and it is sad.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2023 21:27     Subject: Oh, Maryland, what happened to you?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Q. Why do Va people constantly start Md Va wars?

A. Md is the richest state in the USA and the 2nd most educated state. Owns the whole Potomac River due to winning the civil war and has every national attraction and all pro sports on its side of the River. Having the most billionaires, best privates and country clubs is just a poke in the eye. The killer is having Georgetown, Big Ten UMD, Annapolis Navy and John’s Hopkins as the best concentrated academic community outside Mass.


None of these things make it pleasant to spend time in Maryland. Do you think people care about private schools and country clubs? Virginia has more in-state colleges that are accessible to people, not just hoity-toity private colleges.


Wealth, education and expensive things are totally pleasant.

I might add NOVA is a concrete, unplanned, hardscrabble hellscape and now with work from home looks ridiculous. Maryland is neater and more livable. That’s why most of the billionaires live north of the river.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2023 21:22     Subject: Oh, Maryland, what happened to you?
Anonymous wrote:Q. Why do Va people constantly start Md Va wars?

A. Md is the richest state in the USA and the 2nd most educated state. Owns the whole Potomac River due to winning the civil war and has every national attraction and all pro sports on its side of the River. Having the most billionaires, best privates and country clubs is just a poke in the eye. The killer is having Georgetown, Big Ten UMD, Annapolis Navy and John’s Hopkins as the best concentrated academic community outside Mass.


None of these things make it pleasant to spend time in Maryland. Do you think people care about private schools and country clubs? Virginia has more in-state colleges that are accessible to people, not just hoity-toity private colleges.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2023 21:10     Subject: Oh, Maryland, what happened to you?
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Bethesda and made my way over to Virginia after college due to better work prospects in Virginia. My parents finally left Maryland a few years ago and we don’t go back often. I traveled to Bethesda and Rockville yesterday for the first time in about a year. What struck me the most:

-panhandlers at every side of all the major intersections. I’m shocked Montgomery county allows that.

-why on earth did they take 1/3 of a major artery (Old Georgetown Road) and close it off for bike traffic? Want to know how may bicyclists I saw using that section of the road? Exactly zero.

-I almost hit two pedestrians in two completely different areas who stepped in front of my car in the middle of the block when they were looking at their phones. Neither of them ever seemed to even notice I was there.

-I also almost got hit four separate times by people either pulling into traffic from the side streets without caring if it was clear, or realizing they wanted to turn at the next intersection when they were several lanes over.

Is it entitlement? Or do people in Maryland just tend to have their heads up their rears? I couldn’t figure it out but the vibe there is so different than it was when I was growing up there (in the 70’s and 80’s) and so different from Virginia. How do people stomach living there these days?


To be fair, it’s not MD. Problem is MOCO
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2023 20:36     Subject: Oh, Maryland, what happened to you?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:One of the most difficult states in the whole USA to do business and start a business. MoCo is even worse than the rest of the state in terms of being hostile to business. Makes no damn sense for why you’d make it hard to do business when you’re sandwiched between Delaware and Virginia. Does MD enjoy losing billions to those states in lost opportunities?


Oh yeah, no development at all around Bethesda.

Have you checked out the traffic and school crowding in that area? It is because they are letting in too many developers OP.

I wish they would go to VA instead.


MoCo barely creates jobs. In fact, MoCo loses to PG! MoCo also loses to other parts of the state. It is absolutely, 100% a bigger problem with MoCo when the rest of the state can make more jobs. But overall, MD is a terrible place to do business and start a business. Why bother with MD when DE is only a little bit a away and on the East Coast?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/prince-georges-has-overtaken-montgomery-as-top-job-creator-in-maryland-suburbs/2020/01/19/218c3646-38b6-11ea-bf30-ad313e4ec754_story.html
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2023 20:25     Subject: Oh, Maryland, what happened to you?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s always started by by people from poorer, less educated state of Virginia. They are frantic, desperate and seething.


Yep. Maryland and DC people don’t even notice the other side of their river. They never start this nonsense.


When you’re richer and more educated than Virginia[b] and it’s on the other side of a huge river from Maryland and DC why would anybody start a nasty thread about Virginia?


When you are as stupid as you are, why would you post comments? [/quote


except that Virginia is richer and Massachusetts is the most educated: Massachusetts is the most educated state in the U.S., with a total score of 8.1.54. Massachusetts ranks first for Educational Attainment and ...
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2023 20:23     Subject: Oh, Maryland, what happened to you?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Richest and most educated state in the country.

Virginia can’t stop it’s inferiority complex seething spamming.



Massachusetts is laughing at the first statement.
[b]


I'm laughing at both statements:

These Are the Richest States in America
Virginia
Colorado
Connecticut
Washington
Hawaii
California
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2023 20:06     Subject: Oh, Maryland, what happened to you?
In the end.

Annapolis

Or

Richmond


End of story.