{"id":3016,"date":"2024-07-26T16:26:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T20:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/26\/silver-spring-ranked-1-best-place-to-live-after-scaring-away-people-who-hate-diversity\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T16:26:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T20:26:23","slug":"silver-spring-ranked-1-best-place-to-live-after-scaring-away-people-who-hate-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/26\/silver-spring-ranked-1-best-place-to-live-after-scaring-away-people-who-hate-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Spring Ranked #1 &#8216;Best Place to Live&#8217; After Scaring Away People Who Hate Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"908\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/messenger_creation_cab7deff-6fea-495f-9ee6-cd496ff546ad417212345596520652.jpeg?resize=1024%2C908&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/messenger_creation_cab7deff-6fea-495f-9ee6-cd496ff546ad417212345596520652.jpeg?resize=1024%2C908&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/messenger_creation_cab7deff-6fea-495f-9ee6-cd496ff546ad417212345596520652.jpeg?resize=300%2C266&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/messenger_creation_cab7deff-6fea-495f-9ee6-cd496ff546ad417212345596520652.jpeg?resize=768%2C681&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/messenger_creation_cab7deff-6fea-495f-9ee6-cd496ff546ad417212345596520652.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1362&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/messenger_creation_cab7deff-6fea-495f-9ee6-cd496ff546ad417212345596520652.jpeg?resize=1222%2C1084&amp;ssl=1 1222w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/messenger_creation_cab7deff-6fea-495f-9ee6-cd496ff546ad417212345596520652.jpeg?resize=922%2C818&amp;ssl=1 922w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/messenger_creation_cab7deff-6fea-495f-9ee6-cd496ff546ad417212345596520652.jpeg?resize=675%2C599&amp;ssl=1 675w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/messenger_creation_cab7deff-6fea-495f-9ee6-cd496ff546ad417212345596520652.jpeg?resize=360%2C319&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/messenger_creation_cab7deff-6fea-495f-9ee6-cd496ff546ad417212345596520652.jpeg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>SILVER SPRING, MD &#8211; Fortune Magazine has ranked Silver Spring #1 in the &#8220;Best Places to Live for Families&#8221; list based on its ability to scare away people who constantly assert how dangerous this highly diverse suburb is despite having never stepped foot there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We fell in love with Silver Spring because it has great public transit access, restaurants with cuisines from all over the world, and several parks close to our home,&#8221; said local resident Daniele Muir. &#8220;But now that all these wimpy, conservative white men call it a &#8216;scary war zone&#8217; and refuse to come here, it has become even more attractive for families.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Fortune magazine, Silver Spring stood out for its Arts &amp; Entertainment District, 100-plus arts and humanities organizations, entertainment venues, and obvious lack of a Cracker Barrel. Residents can watch independent films at the AFI Silver Theatre, see live performances at the Fillmore, and enjoy a variety of concerts at the Civic Center beyond local dive bar Toby Keith cover bands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While most Montgomery County residents cheered the welcoming news, not everyone agreed with the ranking. &#8220;Silver Spring is not even a real city,&#8221; bemoaned a Twitter account who isn&#8217;t even a real person and doesn&#8217;t even live in Montgomery County. &#8220;It&#8217;s also way too expensive and crowded for a place that nobody goes to anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SILVER SPRING, MD &#8211; Fortune Magazine has ranked Silver Spring #1 in the &#8220;Best Places to Live for Families&#8221; list based on its ability to scare away people who constantly assert how dangerous this highly diverse suburb is despite having never stepped foot there. &#8220;We fell in love with Silver Spring because it has great&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[114,184,183,516,95,1009,1251,1113,551,24,883,969,970,1130,916,915,874,373,995,370,140,489,1136,368,979,122,386,340,141,490,259,537,1593,317,189,993,640,512,311,309,705,1142,1351,667,441,638,787,130,339,6,116,1116,2,104],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-culture","tag-amazon","tag-bethesda","tag-chevy-chase","tag-cnn","tag-comedy","tag-dc-humor","tag-dc-jokes","tag-dc-metro-map","tag-dc-politics","tag-dc-satire","tag-discover-long-branch","tag-dmv","tag-dmv-news","tag-dmv-satire","tag-downtown-silver-spring","tag-dtss","tag-east-silver-spring","tag-ebay","tag-election-2024","tag-facebook","tag-fake-news","tag-funny","tag-gentrification","tag-google","tag-google-news","tag-historic-takoma","tag-housing","tag-hulu","tag-humor","tag-jokes","tag-kate-stewart","tag-local-news","tag-local-satire","tag-marc-elrich","tag-maryland","tag-maryland-news","tag-maryland-satire","tag-md-politics","tag-mncppc","tag-moco","tag-moco-council","tag-moco-district-4","tag-moco-news","tag-moco-planning-commission","tag-moco-restaurants","tag-moco-satire","tag-moco-schools","tag-montgomery-county","tag-netflix","tag-news","tag-nimby","tag-silver-spring-metro","tag-takoma-park","tag-takoma-torch","wpcat-12-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/messenger_creation_cab7deff-6fea-495f-9ee6-cd496ff546ad417212345596520652.jpeg?fit=2000%2C1774&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPZSG-ME","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}