Comments on: Pr. George’s county experiences change http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/pr-georges-county-experiences-change Engaging the culture by challenging the status quo Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DarkStar http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/pr-georges-county-experiences-change/comment-page-1#comment-4652 DarkStar Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:05:20 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2007/07/26/pr-georges-county-experiences-change/#comment-4652 Did you notice that last paragraphs? <em>Charles is also becoming more affluent. Between 2000 and 2005, the median household income rose from $62,199 to $69,573, and the number of households making six figures nearly doubled, census data show. "Charles County, from an economic perspective, represents a suburb of Prince George's County just as Prince George's County is a suburb of Washington, D.C.," Basu said. "That is where they find the greener pastures, the lower density, the rustic lifestyle, the cleaner air and so on." Jennifer Walker, a real estate agent who is black, recently moved from Upper Marlboro to Waldorf because she wanted a safer environment for her four children, ages 6 to 17. She said she hopes to pull them out of the private Christian school they attend in Bowie and enroll them in Charles's public schools. Standing on the steps of her new home on a cul-de-sac off a two-lane country road, Walker said she loves her new community. "This is a breath of fresh air," she said.</em> The thing is, Upper Marlboro's crime problem is mostly car theft from my last look into it. Next, she thinks the school system in Charles is better. It is but it's still not that great. Like I had commented before, Charles County is getting PG County Blacks who are disappointed in the school system AND that it would be interesting to get the percentage of PG County Black parents who send their kids to private schools. I think the number is higher than the norm. Did you notice that last paragraphs?

Charles is also becoming more affluent. Between 2000 and 2005, the median household income rose from $62,199 to $69,573, and the number of households making six figures nearly doubled, census data show.

“Charles County, from an economic perspective, represents a suburb of Prince George’s County just as Prince George’s County is a suburb of Washington, D.C.,” Basu said. “That is where they find the greener pastures, the lower density, the rustic lifestyle, the cleaner air and so on.”

Jennifer Walker, a real estate agent who is black, recently moved from Upper Marlboro to Waldorf because she wanted a safer environment for her four children, ages 6 to 17.

She said she hopes to pull them out of the private Christian school they attend in Bowie and enroll them in Charles’s public schools.

Standing on the steps of her new home on a cul-de-sac off a two-lane country road, Walker said she loves her new community. “This is a breath of fresh air,” she said.

The thing is, Upper Marlboro’s crime problem is mostly car theft from my last look into it. Next, she thinks the school system in Charles is better. It is but it’s still not that great. Like I had commented before, Charles County is getting PG County Blacks who are disappointed in the school system AND that it would be interesting to get the percentage of PG County Black parents who send their kids to private schools. I think the number is higher than the norm.

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