Educated flight out of DC?

[Anonymous]

People who love their cities, get involved for their betterment, they aren't sitting in their boring suburbs complaining about cities they left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The truly smart ones left in the 80s. It has been a long slow exodus since then. If you haven’t left by now, you are misjudging your intelligence by a wide margin.

Seriously? You’re aware the city had a huge boom from like 1997-2015, right? Basically the mayors of those times allowed developers to build and a lot of people moved in and anyway, it sounds like you have no fking clue about DC.

It’s having problems now mainly because of commercial RE vacancies and the wokes permitting crime without swift punishment, for noble but ultimately self flagellating reasons.

If Trump wins I can see a bigger forced exodus of government tenants out of DC. Who knows. It is what it is. I’ve been here my whole life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who love their cities, get involved for their betterment, they aren't sitting in their boring suburbs complaining about cities they left.

Unless they have kids that they want to keep safe or send to good schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The educated are long gone from DC. As well as anyone with any common sense.

So strange how Americans hate their cities. Since cities are really social hubs where people come together for work and culture, it really reflects how much Americans despise each other.

This! Americans are hostile to or isolated from one another and our cities pay the price for it. Its part of why we're steadily losing global influence to more unified and urbanized nations like China.

[Anonymous]

American cities are in decline because city leaders are generally inept. Now as they collapse leaders in the suburbs want to repeat the same mistakes. Glad I am nearing retirement and will be able to escape the fall of the suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The educated are long gone from DC. As well as anyone with any common sense.

So strange how Americans hate their cities. Since cities are really social hubs where people come together for work and culture, it really reflects how much Americans despise each other.

This! Americans are hostile to or isolated from one another and our cities pay the price for it. Its part of why we're steadily losing global influence to more unified and urbanized nations like China.

Please. Americans simply have access to land and space. You think the average urban Chinese person really wants to live in a tiny apartment?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The educated are long gone from DC. As well as anyone with any common sense.

So strange how Americans hate their cities. Since cities are really social hubs where people come together for work and culture, it really reflects how much Americans despise each other.

I loved living in cities when I was young and didn’t have kids. However, now I do, and I prefer the suburbs. We have a neighborhood and a school with a rich social components. The city offers my current life nothing that I don’t already have better where I am, in suburbia but close to the city.

Now, the truly irritating people are the ones that want to convert suburbia into the city. It’s hugely selfish.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The educated are long gone from DC. As well as anyone with any common sense.

So strange how Americans hate their cities. Since cities are really social hubs where people come together for work and culture, it really reflects how much Americans despise each other.

This! Americans are hostile to or isolated from one another and our cities pay the price for it. Its part of why we're steadily losing global influence to more unified and urbanized nations like China.

lol…you mean to tell us that an ancient and conformist and nearly 100% homogenous society can live in closer quarters than a heterogenous society founded on independence?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The educated are long gone from DC. As well as anyone with any common sense.

So strange how Americans hate their cities. Since cities are really social hubs where people come together for work and culture, it really reflects how much Americans despise each other.

This! Americans are hostile to or isolated from one another and our cities pay the price for it. Its part of why we're steadily losing global influence to more unified and urbanized nations like China.

Please. Americans simply have access to land and space. You think the average urban Chinese person really wants to live in a tiny apartment?

Probably about as much as the average American wants to live in a house made of toothpicks and foam on an 1/8 of an acre. Its a frankly awful way to live, that people only choose to get away from other Americans.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The educated are long gone from DC. As well as anyone with any common sense.

So strange how Americans hate their cities. Since cities are really social hubs where people come together for work and culture, it really reflects how much Americans despise each other.

This! Americans are hostile to or isolated from one another and our cities pay the price for it. Its part of why we're steadily losing global influence to more unified and urbanized nations like China.

lol…you mean to tell us that an ancient and conformist and nearly 100% homogenous society can live in closer quarters than a heterogenous society founded on independence?

Lol at China being homogeneous. Maybe to your white eyes. Also, the American myth is that it was founded on independence. That does not quite match history.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The educated are long gone from DC. As well as anyone with any common sense.

So strange how Americans hate their cities. Since cities are really social hubs where people come together for work and culture, it really reflects how much Americans despise each other.

This! Americans are hostile to or isolated from one another and our cities pay the price for it. Its part of why we're steadily losing global influence to more unified and urbanized nations like China.

lol…you mean to tell us that an ancient and conformist and nearly 100% homogenous society can live in closer quarters than a heterogenous society founded on independence?

*founded on independence for people who are white men who are over the age of 21 and own land.

FTFY

If a PP hadn't already LOLed at the idea of China being a nearly 100% homogeneous society, all 1.4 billion people, I would have LOLed at that too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The educated are long gone from DC. As well as anyone with any common sense.

So strange how Americans hate their cities. Since cities are really social hubs where people come together for work and culture, it really reflects how much Americans despise each other.

I loved living in cities when I was young and didn’t have kids. However, now I do, and I prefer the suburbs. We have a neighborhood and a school with a rich social components. The city offers my current life nothing that I don’t already have better where I am, in suburbia but close to the city.

Now, the truly irritating people are the ones that want to convert suburbia into the city. It’s hugely selfish.

You do realize that your suburbia encroached upon people that probably thought they were living in a rural area and now think the area is already shit.

Development happens. You already helped create it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:American cities are in decline because city leaders are generally inept. Now as they collapse leaders in the suburbs want to repeat the same mistakes. Glad I am nearing retirement and will be able to escape the fall of the suburbs.

Where are you going? Have you paid attention to the collapse of rural areas…because nobody wants to live there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:American cities are in decline because city leaders are generally inept. Now as they collapse leaders in the suburbs want to repeat the same mistakes. Glad I am nearing retirement and will be able to escape the fall of the suburbs.

Where are you going? Have you paid attention to the collapse of rural areas…because nobody wants to live there.

Near Seward Nebraska.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:American cities are in decline because city leaders are generally inept. Now as they collapse leaders in the suburbs want to repeat the same mistakes. Glad I am nearing retirement and will be able to escape the fall of the suburbs.

Where are you going? Have you paid attention to the collapse of rural areas…because nobody wants to live there.

This part. Where is this utopia? You claim that cities suck which are mostly run by Ds and rural areas suck but they are mostly run by Rs. What's the answer?

FYI, I think cities are great.