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Why do people here bash suburbia when most of the NW DC moms live in what is essentially the burbs?
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Anonymous
| If I live in NE, can I bash NW? |
Anonymous
| Social insecurity. |
Anonymous
This. |
Anonymous
| I like to live in NWDC so that I have all of stupid hassles of suburbia PLUS more crime and public schools that are not nationally recognized. Don't forget shitty restaurants and morally superior neighbors! It's the best! |
Anonymous
| In the past, I have lived a block from the Cleveland Park metro and two blocks from the Woodley Park metro, and those neighborhoods were absolutely more suburban than my current Virginia home. I can walk to everything I need, including the grocery store and about forty restaurants. Being inside the District line doesn't confer "urban" status. I think it's what people have to believe so they can justify paying more in taxes for a dysfunctional city government (except for Mr or Ms "moral act", of course). |
Anonymous
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Bashing burbs = a desperate need to be envied and admired for having a DC address.
Oh, superior grocery store walkers, you are so extra special and so much better than the rest of the population. I sure wish I could have a superiority complex like you. |
Anonymous
Again. |
Anonymous
| You're assuming that the DC moms responding live in suburban NW. But lots of us live more centrally-- so many, in fact, that you should no longer assume the posts you see originate in AU Park. |
Anonymous
I live in the fairly close-in suburbs (i can walk to metro) and i sometimes bash the suburbs. I'd rather live in the city, but the schools keep me in VA. maybe the suburbs are the last bastion of bash-ability in these PC times? 
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Anonymous
| I have lived in both the "real" city (no car, walk to everything, multi-culti, urban) and the suburbs (2 car garage, strip malls, mowing my lawn and drive everywhere).....NW DC is actually a nice mix of both - you have the urban feel when you want it or the ability to o things like drive to the grocery store vs. having groceries delivered (like I did in the city).........So you can't really bash ALL NW DC'ers - b/c depending on each neighborhood and each person's choices they can be urban or suburban at the same time.........What I also like about living in NW is that even though I drivemore than when I was a real city dweller....I never, ever drive on a highway (almost never) as part of my daily routine and I really like that benefit. I'll take the rotaries on Mass over the Beltway anyday. |
Anonymous
Where in DC do you live, moral compass?
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Anonymous
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My children can run on grass in their own yard.
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Anonymous
I'm trying to recreate your logic, but I just don't see why this matters. |
Anonymous
I'm from suburban NW. I don't like the burbs because the people I met there were unbearable snobs. Not saying that people here aren't, but it's really hard for me to swallow the nonsense I heard from some of these moms. "I ONLY wear this or that designer." or "Designer clothes are sooo much better." And then they whine about the cost of a college education and that they don't know what they're gonna do in a few years. I know what I just wrote is really flameworthy and I don't think ALL suburbanites are like this. But I met enough to make me want to steer clear. Also, all suburban NW people aren't designer wearing, Prius driving, sour pusses. There's a good share of down to earth people here. And yes, there's a problem with social insecurity, but that's true in lots of places. Now, who knows the name of a good designer flame retardant suit? (I kid!) |
Anonymous
You're not living in a yurt and immunizing babies in remote central asia. |