New Businesses Coming to Southern Maryland

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NorthBeachPerso said:
You guys are ####ing unbelievable. You bitch and bitch and bitch about there not being any local businesses, especially restaurants, opening up and everything being corporate and what happens? All you do is have orgasms over chains.

And even if a local would open up you wouldn't go because it's not a chain.
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I was thinking the same thing. People complain about chains but that's only because it's not the chain they want at whatever location it is. Nobody has said anything about the new mom & pop that opened in Laurel Grove, because (sadly) nobody cares about local restaurants. And I'm surprised with how many people are clamoring for a Walmart in Charlotte Hall! Don't they realize all the traffic it'll add to that stretch of road that's already overcrowded?

Charlotte Hall/Mechanicsville area has 4 Walmarts within 30 minutes of them. 4!!!! California, PF, Waldorf, and La Plata. And most of the people who live in Mechville/CH probably drive right past one of them twice a day on their commute. So is it really a necessary store for the area? There are so many other things I could think of adding before a Walmart. :dead: But really I'd rather no more building in the CH/Mech area because almost anything needed is less than 30 minutes away.
 
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But really I'd rather no more building in the CH/Mech area because almost anything needed is less than 30 minutes away.
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I lived in Lusby way before they added anything to that area, when the only grocery was the old Woodburn's or the Fast Stop.

I remember *hating* the fact that anything needed was "less than 30 minutes away" - meaning a long-ass haul to Prince Frederick or a drive into St Mary's before First Colony was built. I regularly shopped at Harvest Market.

I eventually made a habit of shopping a little bit at a time on my commute home. But I was never thrilled about the fact that if I just wanted to buy shoes or a burger, it pretty much had to be on the way home through Prince Frederick, because once you past Broomes Island Road, there wasn't nuthin.

That said, I was perfectly happy with the new Food Lion on Solomon's. Groceries, drug store and a hardware store actually IN Lusby. Good enough. I didn't think we would ever have or need what is there now.

But I can say, having to drive a half hour or more just to shop for clothes - when now it's a few minutes - is fine with me. I don't like having to make a morning of it.
 
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Nobody has said anything about the new mom & pop that opened in Laurel Grove, because (sadly) nobody cares about local restaurants.
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I am curious if many people on here remember the Steak and Cheese subs and fries they had there 15-20 years ago. I miss them and have never found anything close to how good they were. Maybe my memories are better than they actually were but who knows. I will have to check them out once the boy is feeling better.
 
kom526

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sm8 said:
Now that was a place I remember having good food (maybe memories just make it better) and before anyone says St. Mary's landing is the same people and same food it really just isn't.
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I think your memories may be fooling your tastebuds. Halfway House sucked the last time I was there and St.Mary's Landing is so disgusting it would knock a buzzard off a gut wagon.
 
belvak

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I was thinking the same thing. People complain about chains but that's only because it's not the chain they want at whatever location it is. Nobody has said anything about the new mom & pop that opened in Laurel Grove, because (sadly) nobody cares about local restaurants. And I'm surprised with how many people are clamoring for a Walmart in Charlotte Hall! Don't they realize all the traffic it'll add to that stretch of road that's already overcrowded?

Charlotte Hall/Mechanicsville area has 4 Walmarts within 30 minutes of them. 4!!!! California, PF, Waldorf, and La Plata. And most of the people who live in Mechville/CH probably drive right past one of them twice a day on their commute. So is it really a necessary store for the area? There are so many other things I could think of adding before a Walmart. :dead: But really I'd rather no more building in the CH/Mech area because almost anything needed is less than 30 minutes away.
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LIKE!! I liked the Charlotte Hall/Mechanicsville area the way it was about 15 years ago (and even better before). I chose to move to that area because... IT WAS RURAL!!! It helped that the location makes my commute bearable too. I would love to have been further south in SMC, but just couldn't get around an hour and a half commute, both ways, every day!! I don't mind getting behind an Amish buggy. I don't mind the smell of manure in the Spring. And, I have absolutely no problem driving 25-30 minutes to California, Prince Frederick, La Plata, or Waldorf for big box stores. Heck, hubby and I often drive to King George or Fredericksburg and do shopping just for a ride. I just don't understand people who want to move to a country/rural area but don't want to live the country/rural life.
 
NorthBeachPerso

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belvak said:
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LIKE!! I liked the Charlotte Hall/Mechanicsville area the way it was about 15 years ago (and even better before). I chose to move to that area because... IT WAS RURAL!!! It helped that the location makes my commute bearable too. I would love to have been further south in SMC, but just couldn't get around an hour and a half commute, both ways, every day!! I don't mind getting behind an Amish buggy. I don't mind the smell of manure in the Spring. And, I have absolutely no problem driving 25-30 minutes to California, Prince Frederick, La Plata, or Waldorf for big box stores. Heck, hubby and I often drive to King George or Fredericksburg and do shopping just for a ride. I just don't understand people who want to move to a country/rural area but don't want to live the country/rural life.
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Yep. People have this fantasy about living in a rural area without knowing the realities. Then they move and the realities set in: dust and smells from farming, tractors on the road, near the Bay hearing the watermen pull pots, having to plan better for shopping and pitch a fit, hunting and then demanding the area change to suit them.

You see this on here on another thread, demand for a sewer treatment plant where none exists nor are there plans for one.
 
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kom526 said:
I think your memories may be fooling your tastebuds. Halfway House sucked the last time I was there and St.Mary's Landing is so disgusting it would knock a buzzard off a gut wagon.
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every time we have tried St. Mary's landing we were served clearly spoiled food (spoiled milk and moldy bread). The waitress had the nerve to bring out a brand new jug of milk that you could tell was missing no milk and try to show us an expiration date on it. The milk was so bad it was clumpy so I replied with well if there is nothing wrong with it you take a drink. It makes it really hard for us to even try giving them another chance.
 
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NorthBeachPerso said:
You see this on here on another thread, demand for a sewer treatment plant where none exists nor are there plans for one.
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I am not sure I noticed anyone on the other thread demanding a sewer treatment plant unless we are talking about different threads. The most recent one that pops into mind was centered around the stinky smell around food lion that is at times worse than others. I personally would not see how a sewer treatment plant would make the stink less.
 
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sm8 said:
every time we have tried St. Mary's landing we were served clearly spoiled food (spoiled milk and moldy bread). The waitress had the nerve to bring out a brand new jug of milk that you could tell was missing no milk and try to show us an expiration date on it. The milk was so bad it was clumpy so I replied with well if there is nothing wrong with it you take a drink. It makes it really hard for us to even try giving them another chance.
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For the life of me I don't understand how the parking lot at St. Marys has so many cars in it all the time.
 
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