So tired of living in the DC area. So sick of it. Warning..negative VENT

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What's with the trashing of New England? Seriously? You've got Harvard and MIT not to mention Tufts, Dartmouth, Yale, Brown...and all the research and medical institutions associated with them. Where do you think all the people who teach and research at these places live? Surely you don't think they commute from NYC? Plus amazing tech centers outside Boston. What's with the thinking that New England is provincial, uneducated, uninteresting? How in the world can you justify such a statement? Seriously? I don't get it.

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OP - I agree with you on some level, but will also point out that you can begin to create some of the things you miss...spontaneously invite someone over for frozen costco pizza, salad and cheap red wine on a friday or saturday night. let the kids run around the house while you have an adult conversation. you dont have to get up and over-manage your kids, even if your "company" does....who knows - they may relish the fact that they DONT have to behave that way around you. your kids wont starve if they dont eat much for the excitement...

I'm lucky - we moved to a community that has huge community involvement (we found it by mistake, but dont want to leave). But I remind myself that the community involvement didn't just happen - the community works on it regularly and it really is driven by about 10 people...you can be one of those people in your own community.l...again, you might be surprised

I am regularly surprised by the community; babysitting co-ops, beer crawls and potlucks, tool shares, community garden activity, book drives, food drives, farners markets....new baby meals....neighborhoods are made by the people that live there and I GUARANTEE you that you are not alone in feeling this way in your 'hood...just start reaching out..you'll find more.

I know it's not the point of your post - you're not looking for advice and you are just venting....but maybe it'll help...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Part of Ohio is central.

LOL -You mean Indiana.

I've heard it pronounced both ways.

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Ok 20:14 where do you live? sounds terrific!

[Anonymous]

20:14 - another who wants to know where this is!

[Anonymous]

Wow, those that think D.C. is all that and a bag of chips have a tiny, tiny world!

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Anonymous wrote:Eh, this thread is making me ill. I personally love DC and believe it or not DC is not all about politics. There is a world of other people in DC that have absolutely nothing to do with that niche. I know loving, caring, nice, generous, smart people who live here. Yes, it's not Tokyo or London. Honestly I find it so annoying when people make those comparisons because DC is not a huge city like those cities or NYC. You're comparing apples to oranges because DC is a smaller residential city that still has so much to offer. I find when I smile at a stranger here, guess what, they smile back. If you're a sour person that's what you're going to get in return. Yes there are jerks here (as there are in any city) but there also is a world of great people here. I just don't experience the city the way a lot of the negative posters have here on this thread.

If DC is not a world-class city (and I agree that it is not), then why does it have world-class-city prices (especially wrt housing)?

What on Earth does your post have to do with the post you are quoting?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, those that think D.C. is all that and a bag of chips have a tiny, tiny world!

I don't get this attitude...so it is preferential to be above it all and be miserable, just so I can say I'm "worldly?" Worst advice ever. Sorry, I'd rather be happy in my "tiny world" than miserable just because.

Really people, if you can't a cool group of people to hang with, or some fun things to do in DC, it says so much more about you than DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, those that think D.C. is all that and a bag of chips have a tiny, tiny world!

So because there are people who love living in DC they live in a tiny, tiny world??? Why? I've lived here for 15 years and have a great life here. I also have traveled the world and extensively travel for work on a regular basis. I still love living here. So I'm not sure why people who have a different view than you have a tiny, tiny world. If you've looked around DC is a pretty well traveled and international crowd. I think it's probably people like you that actually make people not like the place. What a stupid post.

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DC lovers again -- I'm in my 50s and have a teen. Maybe it's great for young people as was mentioned earlier but maybe it works for us older people, too. Maybe it's not as good for people with small children.

Also as someone noted, maybe it's not so good if you live far out and have to drive everywhere. I found it much easier to live here when we moved by a close-in metro stop. I couldn't bear to commute in from way out in the suburbs again.

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Anonymous wrote:move to takoma park or mt. rainier and don't look back.

Especially Mt. Rainier. Very inexpensive. Close-in. Fabulous sense of community. And, safe (enough).

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Anonymous wrote:
20:14 - another who wants to know where this is!

Hyattsville Hills. (not the PP, by the way, but she seems to be describing this exact community. Plus cheap houses!).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
20:14 - another who wants to know where this is!

Hyattsville Hills. (not the PP, by the way, but she seems to be describing this exact community. Plus cheap houses!).

Not the PP either but River Falls in Potomac has this kind of community. I can't afford to live there, but its there none the less.

[Anonymous]

I think part of it is that D.C.'ers are so very, very willing to kick a person when they are down. It seems their favorite past time. If that is not miserable behavior, I don't know what is. They have no idea that manners includes how you treat people, or living by the golden rule. So OP, I can see where you are coming from. It is such a small concept to grasp, and costs nothing, yet they refuse.

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Anonymous wrote:
I think part of it is that D.C.'ers are so very, very willing to kick a person when they are down. It seems their favorite past time. If that is not miserable behavior, I don't know what is. They have no idea that manners includes how you treat people, or living by the golden rule. So OP, I can see where you are coming from. It is such a small concept to grasp, and costs nothing, yet they refuse.

Are you serious?? What a sweeping statement. I know so many people here that would give me the shirt of their back. I personally go out of my way to help people whenever I can and do a lot of community service work. I know plenty of people who do the same. Everyone from DC refuses to bide by the Golden Rule? Please. By your statement you are actually the kind of person I would like to avoid in this city.