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Anonymous wrote:This thread is created by and for non natives. People who move here from small towns or poor states come here and need validation about where they live, people who are from this area realize that each area has something unique and special to offer the overall DMV. I wish you climbers would go back to your original states, or at the very least, stop trying so hard! Geesh!

How's living in Wheaton, lol?

I actually like Wheaton. I've been a resident there since 2003 and recently since the 2010's we've seen a huge wave of immigrants (mostly Hispanics who are from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala).

The houses are more smaller there and while I would agree there are some sketchy areas, it really isn't bad unless you're going alone at night or you're somewhere around the Westfield mall. I would honestly assume it's just affluent people who say it looks say poor because it doesn't look clean or it's very poverished and I'd disagree. The interiors of many houses there look great, some are a bit antique than others.

When someone says Wheaton is terrible, I would only assume they probably listen to Fox News.

If Wheaton is so awesome why don’t prices reflect that? I assure you these people living in $3M homes in Bethesda and Spring Valley don’t all watch Fox News and would never want to live, shop, or eat in Wheaton.

At a certain point you can’t fool the market. There is a reason SFH homes in Wheaton like this one are $650,000 within walking distance to the Metro:

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/2609-Fenimore-Rd-20902/home/11006776

You know why this area is cheaper than Bethesda or places on the Orange Line in Arlington where this house would go for 2x to 3x as much this close to a metro stop? Because people don’t want to:

Have their daughters abducted by men in tinted sedans
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/14-year-old-girl-escapes-attempted-abduction-in-wheaton.amp

Get bleach sprayed in their eyes going to mall
https://wjla.com/news/crime/wheaton-mall-montgomery-county-police-department-2-suspects-teens-violence-assault-woman-bleach-clorox-police-video-assault-video-maryland-crime-mall-assault-silver-spring-maryland

Or have their grandmother assaulted and robbed outside of a grocery store
https://mocoshow.com/2023/03/16/police-investigating-assault-and-robbery-of-elderly-woman-at-giant/

Wanting to be as far away as possible from uncivilized crap like this is a perfectly understandable human impulse and why people pay millions of dollars to be far, far away.

https://mocoshow.com/2025/03/29/police-investigating-early-morning-shooting-in-bethesda-two-injured/

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2022/12/14/teen-sentenced-to-40-years-in-prison-for-bethesda-target-stairwell-murder/

https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail.aspx?Item_ID=46076#:~:text=The%20preliminary%20investigation%20has%20revealed,to%20the%20Cheltenham%20Detention%20Center.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/bethesda-business-owner-followed-from-dc-in-attempted-carjacking

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2025/06/bethesda-shopping-center-responds-to-a-rash-of-vehicle-breakin-ins/

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Anonymous wrote:“Prestige” and “Maryland” are antonyms.

OMG, you are so right! Nothing is more prestigious than a ranch house in Pimmit Hills or a McMansion in McLean!

There’s a reason the most prestigious schools and country clubs are in MD and not VA.

There is a literally a small sliver of Montgomery County that isn’t depressing and low rent. That’s it. PG County and Howard County can’t compete with Loudoun or Fairfax on any metric. Wealth, schools, crime. Anything.

And all the colleges besides UMD and Johns Hopkins are crappy. If you can’t afford private and your kid can’t get into UMD you’re out of luck. Meanwhile Virginia has UVA, William & Mary, VTech, GMU, VCU, James Madison…ie, all schools you’d want your kid to go to before Towson.

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Anonymous wrote:Tier 1:

Chevy Chase
Somerset
Potomac
Bethesda

Tier 2:
Takoma Park
North Bethesda
Kensington
Nicer parts of Silver Spring (Woodside area, Rock Creek Forest etc.)
Rockville

Tier 3:
Olney
Gaithersburg
Further out Silver Spring

Tier 4:
Wheaton
Aspen hill
Germantown
Montgomery village

You missed number one. Travilah

OMG the money in Travilah is crazy. The houses massive. It is a subset of Potomac but it is all big ass mansions.

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Anonymous wrote:“Prestige” and “Maryland” are antonyms.

OMG, you are so right! Nothing is more prestigious than a ranch house in Pimmit Hills or a McMansion in McLean!

There’s a reason the most prestigious schools and country clubs are in MD and not VA.

Anonymous wrote:“Prestige” and “Maryland” are antonyms.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is created by and for non natives. People who move here from small towns or poor states come here and need validation about where they live, people who are from this area realize that each area has something unique and special to offer the overall DMV. I wish you climbers would go back to your original states, or at the very least, stop trying so hard! Geesh!

How's living in Wheaton, lol?

I actually like Wheaton. I've been a resident there since 2003 and recently since the 2010's we've seen a huge wave of immigrants (mostly Hispanics who are from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala).

The houses are more smaller there and while I would agree there are some sketchy areas, it really isn't bad unless you're going alone at night or you're somewhere around the Westfield mall. I would honestly assume it's just affluent people who say it looks say poor because it doesn't look clean or it's very poverished and I'd disagree. The interiors of many houses there look great, some are a bit antique than others.

When someone says Wheaton is terrible, I would only assume they probably listen to Fox News.

If Wheaton is so awesome why don’t prices reflect that? I assure you these people living in $3M homes in Bethesda and Spring Valley don’t all watch Fox News and would never want to live, shop, or eat in Wheaton.

At a certain point you can’t fool the market. There is a reason SFH homes in Wheaton like this one are $650,000 within walking distance to the Metro:

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/2609-Fenimore-Rd-20902/home/11006776

You know why this area is cheaper than Bethesda or places on the Orange Line in Arlington where this house would go for 2x to 3x as much this close to a metro stop? Because people don’t want to:

Have their daughters abducted by men in tinted sedans
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/14-year-old-girl-escapes-attempted-abduction-in-wheaton.amp

Get bleach sprayed in their eyes going to mall
https://wjla.com/news/crime/wheaton-mall-montgomery-county-police-department-2-suspects-teens-violence-assault-woman-bleach-clorox-police-video-assault-video-maryland-crime-mall-assault-silver-spring-maryland

Or have their grandmother assaulted and robbed outside of a grocery store
https://mocoshow.com/2023/03/16/police-investigating-assault-and-robbery-of-elderly-woman-at-giant/

Wanting to be as far away as possible from uncivilized crap like this is a perfectly understandable human impulse and why people pay millions of dollars to be far, far away.

Anonymous wrote:“Prestige” and “Maryland” are antonyms.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol, now is it possible to do a prestige ranking on the MCPS high schools?

Good idea. Here's the more ideal ranking for the schools if you gonna consider the prestige by it's current boundary area.

Tier 1:
- Winston Churchill
- Walt Whitman
- Poolesville
- Bethesda-Chevy Chase
- Wootton

Tier 2:
- RM
- Clarksburg
- Northwest
- Einstein
- Blair
- WJ

Tier 3:
- Damascus
- Sherwood
- Magruder
- Blake
- Quince Orchard

Tier 4:
- Northwood
- Wheaton
- Gaithersburg
- Paint Branch

Tier 5:
- Rockville
- Watkins Mill
- Kennedy
- Springbrook

Are those prestige by a housing or school ?

Nobody considers Churchill the best high school and while BCC has some great areas in it it also has droves of apts and a chunk o low income silver spring dragging it down. What makes Whitman…Whitman is that it has almost exclusively million dollar and up SFHs

Housing.

Yah I’m not sure Potomac can compete with Bethesda housing. There are a few palatial estates but by quantity and total value close in Bethesda is way better. Only thing holder BCC back from value is all the apartments. Churchill has lots of normal areas and not to mention Scotland.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol, now is it possible to do a prestige ranking on the MCPS high schools?

Good idea. Here's the more ideal ranking for the schools if you gonna consider the prestige by it's current boundary area.

Tier 1:
- Winston Churchill
- Walt Whitman
- Poolesville
- Bethesda-Chevy Chase
- Wootton

Tier 2:
- RM
- Clarksburg
- Northwest
- Einstein
- Blair
- WJ

Tier 3:
- Damascus
- Sherwood
- Magruder
- Blake
- Quince Orchard

Tier 4:
- Northwood
- Wheaton
- Gaithersburg
- Paint Branch

Tier 5:
- Rockville
- Watkins Mill
- Kennedy
- Springbrook

Are those prestige by a housing or school ?

Nobody considers Churchill the best high school and while BCC has some great areas in it it also has droves of apts and a chunk o low income silver spring dragging it down. What makes Whitman…Whitman is that it has almost exclusively million dollar and up SFHs

Housing.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lol, now is it possible to do a prestige ranking on the MCPS high schools?

Good idea. Here's the more ideal ranking for the schools if you gonna consider the prestige by it's current boundary area.

Tier 1:
- Winston Churchill
- Walt Whitman
- Poolesville
- Bethesda-Chevy Chase
- Wootton

Tier 2:
- RM
- Clarksburg
- Northwest
- Einstein
- Blair
- WJ

Tier 3:
- Damascus
- Sherwood
- Magruder
- Blake
- Quince Orchard

Tier 4:
- Northwood
- Wheaton
- Gaithersburg
- Paint Branch

Tier 5:
- Rockville
- Watkins Mill
- Kennedy
- Springbrook

Are those prestige by a housing or school ?

Nobody considers Churchill the best high school and while BCC has some great areas in it it also has droves of apts and a chunk o low income silver spring dragging it down. What makes Whitman…Whitman is that it has almost exclusively million dollar and up SFHs