Attention Marylanders

[hkellick]

OK, this is a call out to those of you who read my LJ and live in or have lived in Maryland.

K and I are going off to Silver Spring this weekend, to look at the city and possibly a couple of apartments.

I'm looking for stories, good and bad, about Silver Spring. Tell me what you know. Good places? Bad places? Good apartments? Bad apartments?

I need to know what the apartment adverts aren't telling me.

Thank you in advance!

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Hello completely random person!
Heh.

I'm not really surprised that downtown gets rough at night. D.C. is a huge city with a lot of people and they tend to conglomerate in downtown sorts of places.

I recognize some of those chain restaurants: Ruby Tuesday, Maccaroni Grill and Chipotle.. but I have no idea what Eggspectations, Baja Fresh and Panera Bread are.
Tex Mex sounds cool for me. Dunno about the girlfriend, sadly.

As far as malls go, I usually go to Laurel (it's close to work) or, if Laurel doesn't work, we sometimes go to Arundel Mills. Moving near a sucky mall is not the end all, assuming we can find a BETTER area (Hyattsville sucks: too much poverty.)

I don't know Silver Spring much at all which is why I asked for help.

This got long :)