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Good parks, great schools, startling ineq - 4/18/2019
I moved from Montgomery County In 2001 at the age of 40 to Howard County (Columbia) to the 'decaying' village of Harpers Choice. It had less crime at the time however with the recent addition of expensive apartments next to Columbia Mall; in the Wilde Lake Village Center which you may have missed due to paranoia; the work about to be started on Hickory Ridge Village Center; and planned changes to the Harpers Choice Village Center area things have swung back toward better. We have miles of paved pathways, deer studies, parks, playgrounds, pools, ... and still manage to support the poor you mention and happen to know a family in a county townhouse they pay just a few hundred a month for. Their daughter will graduate with near straight A's at Wilde Lake High School next month. I'd say the area helped them. Are they concentrated with low income families? Yes. Maybe you could allow some of them to live in the empty bedrooms of your wonderful River Hill home instead of feigning concern.

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