Many well educated, professional black families moved to P.G. in the 90s looking to create the next Montgomery and Fairfax Counties. Unfortunately the problems of D.C. have invaded and threaten to overrun it.
Dear kristinn,
When I was growing up, PG was a much nicer place. There were bad sections, but back then, much of the county was still rural, and there were a number of very nice, small, older communities.
When I was a kid, I lived in New Carrollton, and it was a nice place to live. It's gone downhill since I lived there. There are parts of New Carrollton I assiduously avoid.
Yet, home prices are skyrocketing in the county. To their credit, the folks who run the county are trying their hardest to introduce lots of new, upscale housing, which helps the tax base a whole bunch, and is relatively cheap development for the county (If developers build 100 homes on a couple of hundred of acres of the old Fairwood Turf Farm, you create a lot less need for roads, schools, sewers, etc., then if developers build 1000 townhouses, or 2500 garden apartment units.). As much as I disliked him, former County Exec Wayne Curry really pushed for this kind of development, and perhaps in the long-run, the county will recover somewhat as a result.
But between the high taxes, the high crime, the lousy schools, after living there from 1966 to 2000, we just couldn't take it anymore. We moved in 2001 to Anne Arundel. Very happy. I pay the same property taxes for a house worth more than three times as much as what I had in PG. Less crime, less congestion (at least in my part), schools aren't quite as crappy, etc.
Yet folks are pouring into PG.
sitetest
The professional blacks didn't change the Dem government or the management of the Police force or Sheriff's office nor did they fight for the right to conceal carry or self defense. They qualify for fools of the decade.
Let them reap what they wanted to sow. When they get a brain perhaps they can back some of this down but it is hard once Jack is out of the box.
I live within 10 feet of the Alexandria line.