Biggest problems in DC?

[Anonymous]

It's definitely not taxes. DC taxes are similar to MD and VA once you add up all the categories, and most people don't give a damn about the tiny differences between them.

It's some mix of crime, the cost of housing, and the renovation of downtown to account for lower office demand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's definitely not taxes. DC taxes are similar to MD and VA once you add up all the categories, and most people don't give a damn about the tiny differences between them.

It's some mix of crime, the cost of housing, and the renovation of downtown to account for lower office demand.

The tax rates may be similar but the quality of services you receive is vastly different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crime and safety should be number one problem to be resolved.

I would add vagrancy to the list. I would be more sympathetic if these tent people truly had nowhere to go, but it seems every time one is interviewed, they just don't the like the rules or inconvenience of being in a shelter. No way should this level of vagrancy be tolerated.

[Anonymous]

Schools and crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools and crime.

With a new focus on reducing incarceration at any cost as a means of harm reduction, coupled with progressive educational reform policies such as ending Gifted and talented classes, ending tracking, and entrance exams to rigorous schools, I don’t see how we’re going to improve the situation.

We are essentially watering down the criminal justice system so it’s more permissive in the face of rising crime and we’re doing the same for education out of amorphous equity goals.

Basically, we need to arrest and incarcerate violent felons and about education…I have no idea. The problem seems intractable. The parents blame the schools. The schools blame funding woes or whatever else…the whole things a mess. We have a hard time with accountability these days.

[Anonymous]

Just walked from NOMA to downtown on this sunny Sunday. Why are there so SO many homeless or near homeless people who are just high as a kite out and making the city feel unsafe to walk around? It’s just a ridiculous number of people…

I live in DC and really like it. I won’t be moving, but I really wish we didn’t have to feel unsafe on our streets in the middle of a Sunday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just walked from NOMA to downtown on this sunny Sunday. Why are there so SO many homeless or near homeless people who are just high as a kite out and making the city feel unsafe to walk around? It’s just a ridiculous number of people…

I live in DC and really like it. I won’t be moving, but I really wish we didn’t have to feel unsafe on our streets in the middle of a Sunday.

It’s an odd juxtaposition to say that you like living in a place that makes you feel unsafe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's definitely not taxes. DC taxes are similar to MD and VA once you add up all the categories, and most people don't give a damn about the tiny differences between them.

It's some mix of crime, the cost of housing, and the renovation of downtown to account for lower office demand.

The tax rates may be similar but the quality of services you receive is vastly different.

+1

D.C. is a dysfunctional city without the population, economy, GDP, and other resources found in MD and VA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just walked from NOMA to downtown on this sunny Sunday. Why are there so SO many homeless or near homeless people who are just high as a kite out and making the city feel unsafe to walk around? It’s just a ridiculous number of people…

I live in DC and really like it. I won’t be moving, but I really wish we didn’t have to feel unsafe on our streets in the middle of a Sunday.

It’s an odd juxtaposition to say that you like living in a place that makes you feel unsafe.

It’s really not. Maybe you’re not, but I am a complicated living person who likes and dislikes aspects of the same thing…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just walked from NOMA to downtown on this sunny Sunday. Why are there so SO many homeless or near homeless people who are just high as a kite out and making the city feel unsafe to walk around? It’s just a ridiculous number of people…

I live in DC and really like it. I won’t be moving, but I really wish we didn’t have to feel unsafe on our streets in the middle of a Sunday.

It’s an odd juxtaposition to say that you like living in a place that makes you feel unsafe.

It’s really not. Maybe you’re not, but I am a complicated living person who likes and dislikes aspects of the same thing…

Nah. You just have gotten used to the dysfunction and crime. Move somewhere else and in a year you’ll be shocked as to what you thought was normal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just walked from NOMA to downtown on this sunny Sunday. Why are there so SO many homeless or near homeless people who are just high as a kite out and making the city feel unsafe to walk around? It’s just a ridiculous number of people…

I live in DC and really like it. I won’t be moving, but I really wish we didn’t have to feel unsafe on our streets in the middle of a Sunday.

It’s an odd juxtaposition to say that you like living in a place that makes you feel unsafe.

It’s really not. Maybe you’re not, but I am a complicated living person who likes and dislikes aspects of the same thing…

Nah. You just have gotten used to the dysfunction and crime. Move somewhere else and in a year you’ll be shocked as to what you thought was normal.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You’d think. Except our elected leaders seem far more interested in bike lanes than dealing with soaring crime.

Hey look, another driver bitter that DC transportation policy is not 100% focused around making life easier for him or her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A veneer of ridiculous woke politics wrapped in corruption.

Cancer and it’s not just local.

[Anonymous]

Why would quality people run for office in a district with no governor or federal rep/senator? What positions have former DC mayors gotten when they manage to not be indicted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's definitely not taxes. DC taxes are similar to MD and VA once you add up all the categories, and most people don't give a damn about the tiny differences between them.

It's some mix of crime, the cost of housing, and the renovation of downtown to account for lower office demand.

The tax rates may be similar but the quality of services you receive is vastly different.

In some places, but not all. The DC side always gets plowed before the MD side. Trash and those other services - no problem. We are not as business friendly as we should be and DCRA is a mess.