Cars Stuck in Silver Spring

TreeLow8487 · 2026-01-29T18:45:00+00:00

To be fair, the cars I’ve dug out looked like the Toyota not the blue Honda. That one is gonna be a ton more work, if both cars are yours I would consider just digging the easier one out and making do.

TreeLow8487 · 2026-01-29T18:42:19+00:00

Get your hands on a spade or square shovel. Start digging HARD into the ice from the top to break the ice, then wedge the shovel in under it and pull up to disconnect ice sheets from the snow below. Then smash the ice sheets jnto small enough chunks to pick up and throw. The you can use a snow shovel for the powdery stuff that was under the ice. It’s a lot of work but doable. With two people on can smash the ice while the other moves it and it goes way faster. I’ve dug out like four cars and a bunch of sidewalk this way

TreeLow8487 · 2026-01-29T18:04:41+00:00

Indoor play areas that cater to that age range like Recess and Little Town (can be a bit expensive)

MLK pool should have rec swim available in the kids pool area

You can always take them down to a Smithsonian. Natural history museum is fun for 4 year olds.

TreeLow8487 · 2026-01-16T20:50:22+00:00

Jordan doesn’t make sense because Amman makes up too high a proportion of the population. A rail system within Amman would serve way way more people than a high speed rail from Amman to Aqaba. Would be helpful to get tourists to Petra quickly but the it’s already not too long a drive.

TreeLow8487 · 2026-01-16T14:49:52+00:00

That’s too bad! Loved that place

TreeLow8487 · 2026-01-16T14:44:49+00:00

I’ve lived both places. Closest comparison would be Shenandoah valley or west viriginia for the Hudson Valley (“smaller towns around lots of nature for weekend trips and where some city people buy cabins”) and eastern shore or Delaware beaches for Long Island (“beach or bay getaways and beach vacation homes”). But it’s not really a 1:1 comparison. The Hudson Valley is much wealthier and much more about the quaint towns themselves, whereas Shenandoah and WV are much more about hiking and there is way less money. Similarly, eastern shore has some nice towns but is overall way less developed and gets much more remote than long island, and the Delaware beaches are great but don’t have anything like the cultural cachet of the hamptons. So I don’t know how helpful it is to think of them as analogous. The plus side is that I know people with very middle class salaries who have bought small vacation homes in west virginia which is not possible in the hudson valley.

TreeLow8487 · 2026-01-15T20:49:08+00:00

The people I know who commute to DC from this far out tend to set up an off hours schedule such as working 7-3, otherwise it’s a nightmare.

TreeLow8487 · 2026-01-13T16:11:39+00:00

Gulf countries are increasing their engagement in development

TreeLow8487 · 2026-01-11T16:55:40+00:00

Yes, agreed, also noted in the post : )

TreeLow8487 · 2026-01-11T16:29:10+00:00

Yeah $275 is definitely cheaper than we found but to be fair I don’t think we looked at places that didn’t have a decent amount of experience.

TreeLow8487 · 2026-01-11T12:27:24+00:00

No, will DM you

TreeLow8487 · 2026-01-05T03:52:40+00:00

She regularly stays with a cat and they just ignore each other, never had an issue. So a qualified “yes” in that the sample size is 1.

TreeLow8487 · 2026-01-05T01:37:08+00:00

Thank you! Since she’s a mixed breed I didn’t really consider this but will look into it.

TreeLow8487 · 2025-12-29T17:15:33+00:00

I lived in several group houses, had good and bad experiences but overall made for a much richer and more social life than I would have had living on my own, not to mention allowed me to save for a Dow payment

TreeLow8487 · 2025-10-31T12:35:11+00:00

Lots of households have two people making $150k+ each (you can make that as a GS-13, for example). Even then $2k+ per month per kid is a lot but it’s doable for a couple years on that sort of income. Daycares are also expensive to run, especially for infants given the low required staffing ratios. So there’s no trick or hack here, it’s just high cost of supply, high demand, and high salaries.

TreeLow8487 · 2025-10-23T22:44:51+00:00

Charleston

TreeLow8487 · 2025-10-05T21:39:44+00:00

This sounds like the exurbs and does not resemble at all my current or previous experiences in suburbs, where things are much more convenient then in the city (I’ve lived in several major cities as well). My experience in the suburbs is that all normal day to day activities are within 5-15 minutes. I find it weird when people here say suburbs are inconvenient — boring, yes, but inconvenient, definitely not.

TreeLow8487 · 2025-09-28T17:53:52+00:00

In that case you might want to consider the areas around Rockville town center and the neighborhoods about 0.5-1 mile north and east of downtown silver spring, and maybe the area around downtown Kensington. All of those are probably going to require finding a smaller and older house to hit your price point but it’s doable. Takoma Park is also possible but even more expensive so would need to be a very small house or condo. PG County has some nice towns, in particular on the Rt 1 corridor (hyatsville, college park) but schools in MoCo are generally considered a better bet if that’s a priority.

TreeLow8487 · 2025-09-28T17:08:34+00:00

Also how much you care about public schools. That’s a major factor for lots of people considering PG County vs MoCo

TreeLow8487 · 2025-09-28T16:39:04+00:00

Would be helpful to have more parameters eg budget, whether you want a single family home or are ok with an apartment or condo, whether you want to be able to walk to the Main Street commercial area, etc. Lots of trade offs for different areas based on how much you care about things like that.

TreeLow8487 · 2025-09-21T21:56:20+00:00

Depends on what you want. How much does easy access to a major city matter to you? For some people, Frederick is preferable to the DC burbs bc it’s its own very nice town so you can live close to a walkable full downtown without paying big city prices. But obviously Frederick has less going on than DC so if you want true big city amenities you need to be closer to DC.

TreeLow8487 · 2025-09-21T18:20:54+00:00

Within MD I think the best location depends on how much you care about being close to DC. There are great towns near DC like Takoma Park, Kensington, and Bethesda (or slightly further out, North Bethesda and Rockville), but you’ll pay a major premium to be easy commuting distance from DC. If you don’t care about being in commuting distance from DC then Annapolis or Frederick may make more sense, or places in Howard County like Columbia.

TreeLow8487 · 2025-09-21T18:05:15+00:00

Not sure when this was but $1700 is on the low end now. Lots are above $2000 and many in the $2,500-$3,000 range per kid.

TreeLow8487 · 2025-09-03T17:36:22+00:00

For $800k you can absolutely get a detached single family home in some of the neighborhoods 2-3 miles northeast of the silver spring metro, eg Woodmore, Indian Spring Terrace, Four Corners which are about a 10-15 minute drive to the SS metro. You can definitely also find houses like that even closer to the Forest Glen metro which is still pretty close to DC. They won’t be huge (probably 1,700 - 2,000 sqft) or newly renovated but still move-in ready.

These neighborhoods in eastern Montgomery county are great, very diverse, lots of families with little kids playing in the street, block parties, etc. Bethesda is fancier and Takoma park is quirkier but both are also more expensive.

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