Inspired by the Post's What's In and Out for 2008, our own list at Just Up The Pike: "In and Out for MoCo: 2008 Edition." (Also check out JUTP's "In and Out for MoCo: 2007 Edition".) Your own submissions are rabidly encouraged.
Happy New Year!
| OUT | IN |
 The Birchmere |  The Fillmore, Barring Any Change of Heart From Ike Leggett |
| Knee-jerk opposition to development | Gracefully selling out to the highest bidder |
| "Briggs Chaney" emo | Burtonsville hardcore |
| Debating the Purple Line for twenty years | Debating the Purple Line for twenty more |
| The Death Star | The Corpse Fortress |
| "Town Centers" | "Meeting places" and "Village centers" |
| Playing mallrat at Wheaton Plaza | Being neighborly on Bonifant Street |
so much more AFTER THE JUMP . . .
| OUT | IN |
 Speed bumps and humps |  Speed cameras |
| The Downcounty | "SoMoCo" |
| "Downtown Silver Spring" | "The Promenade" |
| $ilver Bling | The 'Sprang |
| Hippies in Takoma Park | Marketers in Takoma Park |
| $400,000 condos | $400-a-month rooms in group houses |
| Looking down on P.G. | Looking up at HoCo |
| OUT | IN |
 Church-in-a-barn |  Bedding Barn |
| Chipotle | Pupuseria trucks |
| Cold, hard concrete | Soft, squishy turf (for now) |
| Moorenko's | Gifford's |
| Redeveloping a historic all-girls' school | Redeveloping a historic Catholic school |
| Dim Sum at Oriental East | Injera at Addis Ababa |
1 comment:
As a former resident of the Briggs Chaney area, I could relate to the frustrations that so many of the posters expressed about the decline of the area. Don't confuse truth with "emo".
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