You lie down next to a dog (i.e. Maryland) you get fleas.
After my dad came back from after Enewetak tests and my family’s stay with grandpa and the old family house (no inside water/plumbing and only REA electricity) we all moved to Mary’s Land for him to work out of Andrews AFB at a Brandywine site. Prince George’s County in Marlow Heights. My boyhood in the junior high years was pleasant given the demographics there. I went to Sandy Mount Elementary and then to Benjamin Stoddard JHS. I’m guessing they’ve been renamed drastically if they still exist at all.
Decades later as a contractor visiting a sponsor at NMIC very near where we had once lived as a functioning family I mentioned to the sponsor about possibly visiting my former home on 28th avenue near the former Hecht store and shopping center. She smiled and said “Best do that in broad daylight and at about 60 MPH!”