Anyone else moving away from DC because of local politics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thinking about moving to Vermont. Too MAGAy around here.

Go 30 minutes outside Burlington and it's basically Kentucky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes! We are actively looking to move now, after decades here. It is worse than the 80s and will not get better. Washington elites and grifter developers have a stranglehold. There is no hope for this city. We're getting out now while we can still break even on the NW DC house we bought 20 years ago.

Anyone who actually lived here in the 80s knows this is laughably untrue.

[Anonymous]

I’m with the PP who thinks you have PPD

[Anonymous]

What kids are zombie sheep, exactly? The infants and toddlers in your kids daycare?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What kids are zombie sheep, exactly? The infants and toddlers in your kids daycare?

The kids in their imagination because OP is obviously a right wing troll. No actual person uses language like that.

[Anonymous]

I'm very liberal and pro-vaxx but I also agree with some of what you said, OP. Or at least I can see where you're coming from. I think the restrictions that have been placed on kids have been truly ridiculous. I think every adult should be vaxxed and boosted and every eligible child should get vaccinated. I think people should wear masks when case counts get high or in areas where medically vulnerable are (hospitals, Dr.'s offices). But I don't understand or agree w masks in schools and childcare settings anymore at this point when all childcare workers and teachers and many of the kids themselves can be vaxxed. I do think the restrictions of masks and extended/recurrent periods of isolation/quarantine are damaging to all kids' social development and also to academic/language development for very young kids. Virtual school is NOT good for most kids that I've seen. Kids haven't been able to have normal childhood experiences--school, activities, birthday parties and playdates, other social experiences. I think we should be more like most European countries that have never closed primary and secondary schools or stopped kids' activities, don't require masks for kids. The kids have been done a huge disservice this whole pandemic.

I don't know where in the US you can go to get away from it unless you're OK being around MAGA people and/or anti-vaxx people. I dislike that extreme even more than the liberal Covid nuts. So I'd personally rather be in a very restrictive area than an anti-vaxx area. I wish there weren't just those 2 extremes. If there was a place where people were liberal, smart, pro-vaxx but also didn't want to shut everything down and wear masks forever, I'd go there in a heartbeat. But is there a place like that? Everywhere I know of is 1 extreme or the other.

[Anonymous]

Nope. Looking to move for other reasons but I’ll miss free pre-K and decent minimum wage and a bunch of other DC politics things.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone really think that petulantly announcing that you're moving will somehow make the virus change its behavior?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
So this is an anti-Covid precautions sort of post?

OK, well in that case you'd be looking to move to more Republican areas of the country.

I just wonder at your intentions, asking here on DCUM, OP. Surely you can figure out where the Republican areas are in the USA?

Unless you're just a troll, stirring up shite

But if they did that, how would they get that sweet, sweet *attention?*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone really think that petulantly announcing that you're moving will somehow make the virus change its behavior?

As they used to say on Facebook, “this isn’t an airport. No need to announce your departure.”

[Anonymous]

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thinking about moving to Vermont. Too MAGAy around here.

In dc?

Maybe in fking Southern Maryland.

Look the truth is I am a socially liberal person. Abortion is okay, we should legalize drugs and prostitution and we should probably do lots of liberal things and love Gay people and all that stuff.

At the same time, we have an uuuuuber liberal city council intent on implementing woke policy that sucks. Yes, woke. I said the verboten word.

It’s woke because of people like Charles Allen who in the face of rising crime looks away and blames everything on systemic racism, for which much blame schools be ascribed, but he also does it too much. People have free will not to car jack, murder or rape. When we have a city council that lowers criminal penalties all while crime rises we have a problem. Charles Allen is a wet blanket who wastes millions of violence interruptors for which the majority of studies show don’t work or even increase crime. We need police.

The youth rehab act, second chance act, teens getting a slap on the wrist and released for violent crime, we have liberal da’s like Racine who push liberal nonsense and restorative justice and all this does is degrade safety and increase decampment to the suburbs. When you basically sympathize with the criminal perpetrators more than the actual tax paying victims who live in places like Hill East you have a fking problem.

Ahhhh! So you’re only concerned about the “actual tax paying victims who live in places like Hill East” and not the actual tax payers who have been here all along, including the ones that got displaced from neighborhoods like Hill East. Got it.

I wonder if you’re equally incensed when your “Hill East” kids get therapy and rehab ? Enjoy Vermont.

[Anonymous]

Your post makes no sense. The pandemic started two years ago. My kid who was a toddler at the time still isn’t school age which means kindergarten and up. So you had a 3 year old when Covid hit? Or are you saying your preschooler is school age? That’s not what school age means. Anyway I think you’re looking at all of this the way an adult does not as the kids see it. My kids were 2 and 5 when we were literally locked in our homes and they are no worse for the wear because they were pretty oblivious to it all. Now their lives are pretty much back to normal except for masks at school. I think you’re projecting your own issues onto your children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your post makes no sense. The pandemic started two years ago. My kid who was a toddler at the time still isn’t school age which means kindergarten and up. So you had a 3 year old when Covid hit? Or are you saying your preschooler is school age? That’s not what school age means. Anyway I think you’re looking at all of this the way an adult does not as the kids see it. My kids were 2 and 5 when we were literally locked in our homes and they are no worse for the wear because they were pretty oblivious to it all. Now their lives are pretty much back to normal except for masks at school. I think you’re projecting your own issues onto your children.

My sentiments exactly.

[Anonymous]

Yes, moved to Texas. Truly can’t imagine what our life would be like still in DC. COVID hasn’t been in our lives for over a year.