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I'm tired of all the DC area people bashing: tell me what you like about living here!
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Anonymous
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Great schools, restaurants, cultural opportunities.
Great neighborhoods, but enough public transportation that kids can be really independent as they grow older (and I can retire from chief chauffeur). Great opportunities for kids to pursue their interests, at any level from casual interest to true passion. |
Anonymous
OP here. I guess I should have written "DC Metro area" in the subject line, because that is what I meant: DC, No. VA, and MD. (I'm actually in No. VA myself.) Keep the positive posts coming! Thanks for all the posts, PPs. |
Anonymous
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I like it here. We have lakes for boating, forests and parks nearby for camping, good schools, lots of cultural/fun events, lots of family and friends, good schools, great parks for the kids, hiking trail, great public services, good health care nearby.... Four seasons, nice long gardening season. I personally find most people nice enough except when driving. The traffic does suck; that is the only bad thing for me. Lots of jobs, nice homes, every kind of store or service you need is within easy access.
I live in FFX City. |
Anonymous
| I like the food choices..restaurants of every country and cuisine |
Anonymous
| The worldly cuisine....it is out there if you look and VERY good. I also love the mish mash of people. I love living near a metro and zipping wherever, whenever. I like all the college kids running around, they keep me hopeful. I like people being VERY knowledgeable about politics, makes me smarter to keep up. I love my little hood. |
Anonymous
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I miss the proximity to salt water and amazing skiing; and more happy, accomplished people than not. But keep the posts coming, I will keep looking. |
Anonymous
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I love our neighborhood -- walkable, friendly, close to museums, close to Metro.
I love my tiny house -- it's easy to clean and we use every part of it. I love the 9:30 Club, the Black Cat, and the Birchmere -- excellent music venues with good calendars and excellent acoustics. The 9:30 Club alone makes living here worthwhile for a music lover. I love DCA -- it's RIGHT THERE! Awesome. I could go on. I am not from here but I love it anyway. (And I love my home too.) |
Anonymous
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I could fill ten pages or more.
I visited DC when I was around 12 and loved it for the politics. I visited again when I was in college, went to the old 930 club, and fell in love with the music scene. I moved here in 1994 to work for a Senator, for a summer. Returned at the end of 96 to work for the President. I came for the politics, stayed for my friends, all of whom I met here, in this wonderfully diverse and vibrant city. Thank GOD it is not NYC, a city that will eat you alive for no good reason. Instead, DC is a highly cultured small town. It is filled with people and places I love. I am excited to raise my children here. |
Anonymous
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I love the job opportunities - I'm in policy and it can be very exciting sometimes when things actually happen. And I love knowing there about a thousand other organizations I'd want to work for should I get laid off.
I love the access to a ton of great doctors and medical facilities. I love our neighborhood - super walkable, right near great trails, farmer's markets, and metro - I LOVE that we only have one car and it's fine. I love our house, and will love it more when we expand this spring. I love that people are different and my children will get exposed to people of different races - something that I really did not growing up. I love that there is a ton of high quality childcare and preschools and schools and resources for my kids. I love that I have my pick of yoga classes to take near my home and office. |
Anonymous
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diversity
an emphasis on education interesting jobs museums and culture ethnic food weather (seriously) relatively near the ocean/shore two airports easy to get to Europe I don't find it that hard to make friends Any kind of meet up/group you might be interested in good movie theaters international community |
Anonymous
| Well, I've been here five years now. It's picking up. There are certainly more places to spend money or see something interesting in the walking parts of the city than there were when I arrived. It really is all about comparisons, though. If this is the biggest city you've lived in, you can be excused for thinking it's a fascinating place. I don't even know what to do with the "easy to get to Europe" above. Compared to where, someplace without an international airport that offers non-stop flights to European capitals? 'Cause if that's your standard, no wonder you're content with a little ethnic food and a bunch of policy wanks... |
Anonymous
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21:42 - YES! YES! YES! |
Anonymous
You are not one of the reasons I like to live here. I like D.C., but before D.C. I lived in a much smaller place that definitely did not have an international airport. Guess what? I loved it there too. It was an awesome place to live. |
Anonymous
Well, I don't live in Paris and I find it relatively easy to get to Europe and that makes me happy. I didn't say it was fascinating, but for living in the US it is pretty darn good. Where would you live or cynical , wise one?? |
Anonymous
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I like the theatresAFI and D street
kennedy center, warner, shakespeare.... I like that the circus comes right into town (or I used to) I like that in aa recent Thanksgiving parade I saw highschool marching bands and peruvian dancers I like that most museums are free |