Do wealthy people buying $1M-4M homes near a Metro stop even use the Metro?

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Anonymous wrote:I lived in Foggy Bottom right after college and took the orange to and from work every day. I told my dad I saw a homeless guy defecating on the train. That weekend he bought me a new VW Jetta to drive to work and paid my building's parking fee for me. Lol.

*this was about 6 months after I moved here

TDI?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a big house near Metro and take it to work most days. We never ever ever use it on weekends or evenings. When we lived in DC we basically never used it even though we lived 5 mins away. The service is so awful and it's such a bad experience that lots of people are like us -- live very close to Metro, but very rarely use it. I guess if I didn't value my time or ever have to be on time to things and didn't care about my safety I would ride.

Depending on where I'm going the metro can be much faster than driving. My current work commute is literally 15 minutes door to door with the metro, driving can be up to 30.

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We live in a "big house" in a close-in neighborhood in DC. I drive to my office in downtown because I usually don't get out of work before 7:30pm (some nights go past 8pm), and by that hour, traffic has died down and I can drive home faster than I can get there via metro.

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We live in an "expensive" house near the metro. We are able to take the PRP metro train. You know, it runs on a separate track and the unwashed masses like yourselves are not allow on. We have a dress code.

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$1.3 million house. Both my husband and I metro to work every day. It's better for the environment and I hate the hassle of fighting traffic. Of course, lots of days I hate metro as well but for us it's the lesser of two evils. Obviously that's not the case for everyone.

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We have a house in the low $1M's in NW and I metro every day. DH took the bus until his bus route was discontinued. Though, lately I'm starting to re-consider due to metro unpredictability. Reallllly hope they get their act together. I love being able to read, having the excuse to walk a little instead of sitting in a car, and not having to deal with paying for/ maintaining a second car. We're a family of 3 and barely use the one car we have. We generally uber when we go out to dinner on the weekends though - don't have the patience for metro but don't want to deal with driving/ parking.

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I live in AU park close to the old law school and it takes me almost twice as long to get to work at the pentagon taking the metro compared to driving. Even if I didn't need a bus to get to the metro it would still be longer, I drive because it is quicker and easier. Also friendship heights sucks in the morning after 8 or so, most trains are already packed and the number of stops before china town is too many. My wife on the other hand takes it to K street to avoid paying for parking.

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No, but it's a nice option to have. Friends and family visiting from out of town like to use it, our nanny uses it, and we figure our kids will use it when they get older.

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I like to mingle with the masses. It's a bracing tonic.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are you people seeing all these dirty, disturbed, and impoverished people defecating in the Metro? I've lived here since 1994 and have ridden the Metro thousands of times. Once in a blue moon there's a nutjob in my train car... and what of it? Just don't make eye contact and get off and switch to the next car is you can't handle it. The huge majority of the time it's just normal people commuting. Are you THAT sensitive to seeing human frailty or instability? It messes with you so much that you've sworn off Metro completely and then makes you denigrate the people that take it? WTH?

Get your head out of the sand. People spit and urinate on trains all the time. Vermin with lice/bed bugs, eating fish, with coughs, drunks and druggies. Thugs robbing people.

What on earth? Are you taking the train in Beyond Thunderdome? Jesus Christ you're a weirdo.

Bahahahahaha. Amazing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our nanny won't even use the metro cause of the bums and thugs that ride it.

And since you clearly view the person who cares for your children as "less than", the fact that even she won't use the metro must say a lot!

+1 These comments are foul.