So tired of living in the DC area. So sick of it. Warning..negative VENT

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Anonymous wrote:I hear ya OP! We moved a few months ago away from DC and while I miss some truly wonderful people we met, the list is VERY LONG of things I do not miss.

You couldn't pay me enough to move back. Visit? Sure. But I just can't stomach raising my kids in the area. The traffic and entitlement alone keeps me away.

Where'd you move to? Is your new locale supportive of the dual working parent lifestyle? How are the job and educational opportunities? Not being able to deal with the traffic is a truly wimpish reason to stay away from DC.

Do people there read firsthand news or get all their world affairs info from cable and the internet?

Smaller city in New England.

And I'm sorry, you're right it's not just traffic. It's world-revolves-around-DC people like you that encouraged us to move. We are rather happy with our balanced lifestyle of work and play with access to plenty of diverse learning opportunities.

I'm curious though, it's the digital age. How do we all not have access to "reading firsthand news?" And what is your point?

Ok, by your non response, I'm guessing you do not have a dual working parent lifestyle. And no comment on the job and educational opportunities in your New Englad town compared to DC either, huh? My point about the news is that trying to have a discussion with my Wisconsin relatives that involves actually knowing who some of the Cabinet level officers are in the current administration results in nothing but stares. Here you can discuss policy and who's doing what at the staff level and you feel right at home. And how are you loving that New England weather? Is it true you need to be third generation to even begin to be accepted by the locals there? How's the racial and ethnic diversity?

This post is laughable. Who the eff cares about "Cabinet level officers are in the current administration" and makes is a daily topic? Not I!
And I'm from NE. My high school had a lot more diversity than the private school my neighbor's kid goes to! And you're right no educational opportunities, because if you live in NE how dare you leave it or god forbid attend Yale, Harvard or Dartmouth.

What a joke. OPer, you must be an acquaintance of this schmuck hence you want to move so badly. Good luck and believe it or not there are some very nice people here in the city who want to lead "normal" lives and not talk politics day in and out!

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PP, what topics do you like to talk about?

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I haven't read every single response so forgive me if I'm covering old territory here, but has anybody mentioned the fat?

When I went to King's Island in Ohio I felt like a supermodel. The gross (and I mean gross) weight of the families there rivaled my Civic. Holy crap.

Although I concede that Capitol Hill palace intrigue isn't more interesting than whatever is being discussed at Applebee's #5371, the central time zone is one fat place.
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Anonymous wrote:It's really a shame that those of you who like to discuss science, technology and medicine need to live in DC and deal with all the negatives when you could be intellectually stimlulated living in Omaha, without the traffic and rude people. I hope for your sakes you can get out of DC very soon.

I like DC, I just hate smug assholes who think policy talk requires any intellect at all.

Keep it classy, policy dork!

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't read every single response so forgive me if I'm covering old territory here, but has anybody mentioned the fat?

When I went to King's Island in Ohio I felt like a supermodel. The gross (and I mean gross) weight of the families there rivaled my Civic. Holy crap.

Although I concede that Capitol Hill palace intrigue isn't more interesting than whatever is being discussed at Applebee's #5371, the central time zone is one fat place.
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Ohio is in the Eastern time zone.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't read every single response so forgive me if I'm covering old territory here, but has anybody mentioned the fat?

When I went to King's Island in Ohio I felt like a supermodel. The gross (and I mean gross) weight of the families there rivaled my Civic. Holy crap.

Although I concede that Capitol Hill palace intrigue isn't more interesting than whatever is being discussed at Applebee's #5371, the central time zone is one fat place.
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Ohio is in the Eastern time zone.

Shh...remember, policy wonks don't want to discuss that pesky, non-policy, common-sense-style information.

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After trudging home from my government job daily for years, and witnessing first hand the crappy way "Policy" was made there, the last thing I wanted to do was discuss it. It just wasn't for me. I didn't want to be reminded of it because after working in my mixed up agency, I didn't have much faith left in our policy makers.

My husband is a musician and a physician. He is from New York. We love to visit. We love to discuss Broadway, music, science, medical stuff, odd patients he may have had (not using names) and so on. We soooo don't talk about policy. But we have so many other wonderful things to discuss!

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There is absolutely NO comparison between the NE and D.C., BTW. You need to get out more. The NE knows how to deal with snow, for one. D.C. is not big on common sense, have you noticed? It can be rather tiresome to some of us.

And if one makes their money not by politics, but by other means? God forbid! And if one mentions God? Egads!

We can not all be you, thankfully.

The sense of entitlement just shows the frustration of most of the people in this area. The intelligent, truly accomplished ones I know are quite humble. In D.C. it automatically translates into doormat because they are truly so asocial, frustrated and just plain confused. But that would not occur to someone here. Again, the lack of common sense and lack of decent priorities are just baffling.

But I would not come onto a thread where someone tells you what they don't like, then prove them right, when it is obvious your main goal in life is to argue for the hell of it. This from a lawyer who knows when to take time off.

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Part of Ohio is central.

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So D.C. to kick someone when they are down, I hear you also, OP!

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There's a reason the Real Housewives of DC was the series least watched location....

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Anonymous wrote:Part of Ohio is central.

LOL -You mean Indiana.

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Here you can discuss policy and who's doing what at the staff level and you feel right at home.


The PP's tone was such that anyone who couldn't discuss policy "at the staff level" is a hillbilly of the worst sort. Talking about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is basic government. Other than knowing how your Representative is voting on the issue, lengthy discourse about the negotiations between Obama, and House Republicans is policy wonk stuff, not a demonstration of education or ignorance.

Exactly. Good distinction. There is a D.C. sort who can't get past that and who thinks everyone is "uninformed" and uninteresting if Grampa can't or won't engage in discourse on all the iterations of the bill that finally passed after being reconciled in committee.

Newsbreak: you are a tool. Grampa is too wise and too kind to say so. But I'll say it.

But I chose to be a "tool" and not be interested in cattle futures and whatever pro sports team is playing tonight. I choose to live somewhere where rush hour isn't over at 5:30. Besides, Grampa is a racist chauvinist pig who doesn't know whether to be embarrassed or proud that I make a lot of money.

And there it is! I was waiting for that zinger. Of course, you HAVE to mention money. Predictable.

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Anonymous wrote:It's really a shame that those of you who like to discuss science, technology and medicine need to live in DC and deal with all the negatives when you could be intellectually stimlulated living in Omaha, without the traffic and rude people. I hope for your sakes you can get out of DC very soon.

You know, any town or city with a university is going to a well educated population group. Maybe not the same percentage as say, Bethesda (highest in the nation) but still, how many well educated people do you need (that you don't even know) surrounding you to feel good about yourself. Charlottesville, VA, for example, is a lovely town with a lot of very lovely, kind and interesting people, some of whom happen to be extremely well educated.

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I doubt it. Most of the assholes don't make a lot of money. That is why they are pissed. And if you do, you are new money. The worst kind. You can't buy manners. And boy, this board hates the new vs. old money debate because there is so little old money (and manners) here!