How can you NOT like living in DC?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My main issues are:

1. The weather - too hot and humid too much of the year. I like crisp weather, and I like cold weather.
2. The distance from the ocean or for that matter, any natural bodies of water.
3. The lack of character in the suburbs.

I'm not a hater. I just think DC is very expensive for what it is.

So the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers are artificial. Got it.

They are not swimmable, nor do they have beaches. Nor do they give vistas of water for as far as the eye can see.

But what was said was "The distance from the ocean or for that matter, any natural bodies of water", not if they were "swimmable".

Oh right. So you were just looking for any water then? Well I suppose they are "pretty" to look at (just ignore the trash) even if you can't enjoy for certain recreational sports or eat fish you catch out of them (the last point being more relevant to the Potomac, although there are certainly other parts of the Chesapeake watershed where I wouldn't eat the catch either).

Did you simply not read what I wrote or chose not read it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My main issues are:

1. The weather - too hot and humid too much of the year. I like crisp weather, and I like cold weather.
2. The distance from the ocean or for that matter, any natural bodies of water.
3. The lack of character in the suburbs.

I'm not a hater. I just think DC is very expensive for what it is.

So the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers are artificial. Got it.

They are not swimmable, nor do they have beaches. Nor do they give vistas of water for as far as the eye can see.

But what was said was "The distance from the ocean or for that matter, any natural bodies of water", not if they were "swimmable".

Oh, ok, you're right - now we all love DC.

But seriously: I think we have great nature a short distance away - I go hiking many weekends of the year, and am thrilled with all the different options. But - I dunno. I feel like if I could spend six months of the year somewhere else, I'd be really psyched to be here the other six months of the year. I really don't hate DC at all. But I don't want to spend my whole life here, since I'm not here just six months of the year. It's too expensive/I'm too broke and the winters are too cold.

I can deal with the weather but if the COL came down, then life would be easier for all of us. If only...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My main issues are:

1. The weather - too hot and humid too much of the year. I like crisp weather, and I like cold weather.
2. The distance from the ocean or for that matter, any natural bodies of water.
3. The lack of character in the suburbs.

I'm not a hater. I just think DC is very expensive for what it is.

So the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers are artificial. Got it.

They are not swimmable, nor do they have beaches. Nor do they give vistas of water for as far as the eye can see.

But what was said was "The distance from the ocean or for that matter, any natural bodies of water", not if they were "swimmable".

Oh right. So you were just looking for any water then? Well I suppose they are "pretty" to look at (just ignore the trash) even if you can't enjoy for certain recreational sports or eat fish you catch out of them (the last point being more relevant to the Potomac, although there are certainly other parts of the Chesapeake watershed where I wouldn't eat the catch either).

Did you simply not read what I wrote or chose not read it?

Those two sentences? Well sure I read them! Next question?

[Anonymous]

Salt water, you idiot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My main issues are:

1. The weather - too hot and humid too much of the year. I like crisp weather, and I like cold weather.
2. The distance from the ocean or for that matter, any natural bodies of water.
3. The lack of character in the suburbs.

I'm not a hater. I just think DC is very expensive for what it is.

So the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers are artificial. Got it.

They are not swimmable, nor do they have beaches. Nor do they give vistas of water for as far as the eye can see.

But what was said was "The distance from the ocean or for that matter, any natural bodies of water", not if they were "swimmable".

Oh right. So you were just looking for any water then? Well I suppose they are "pretty" to look at (just ignore the trash) even if you can't enjoy for certain recreational sports or eat fish you catch out of them (the last point being more relevant to the Potomac, although there are certainly other parts of the Chesapeake watershed where I wouldn't eat the catch either).

Did you simply not read what I wrote or chose not read it?

Those two sentences? Well sure I read them! Next question?

What was said was one of DC's issues was the distance from the ocean (granted), "or for that matter, any natural bodies of water". Last I checked, rivers are considered bodies of water. If the poster said "or for that matter, any safe natural bodies of water", then okay but the poster said "any natural bodies of water". Nothing was said about if you could fish in it; nothing was said about drinking from it; nothing was said about swimming in it, just that DC is nowhere near "any bodies of water".

[Anonymous]

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Salt water, you idiot.

Throwing insults, I see. U mad?

[Anonymous]

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Salt water, you idiot.

Throwing insults, I see. U mad?

Okay. The prior poster is referring to salt water, not "fresh" water.

Got it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Salt water, you idiot.

Throwing insults, I see. U mad?

Okay. The prior poster is referring to salt water, not "fresh" water.

Got it?

So then be clearer next time.

Got it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: there is extremely little work life balance to be found.

There is more than plenty of work-life balance to be found. You must just run in shitty little circles.

Meet some new friends.

Maybe you need to make more money.

And here we have another good summary of the joys of DC life.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: there is extremely little work life balance to be found.

There is more than plenty of work-life balance to be found. You must just run in shitty little circles.

Meet some new friends.

Maybe you need to make more money.

And here we have another good summary of the joys of DC life.

Because this never happens anywhere else in the world...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the people. I know -- lots of us are great. But we are all the same. In my upper-middle-class suburban hometown, there were lots of white-collar types, sure, doctors, lawyers, VPs at major corporations. But there was also...the guy who ran the soccer apparel store. The car dealership owner. The cafeteria aid. I went to school with all of their children. Around here, the people who fill these roles live in their own suburbs. At least in the nice DC neighborhoods, people aren't mixed together for a healthy sense of what life is.
I know that this is the case for a lot of major cities -- in high-density areas, people self-segregate. But DC also lacks the diversity typical of many cities. There aren't a lot of artists, for instance. Yeah...I know that instead we have people from all over the world, and rather than the car dealership owner's kids, my kids hang out with the kids of the guy with a prominent role at an important and unique NGO, or whatever. But that's fake diversity. When you get down to it, that guy is the same as a lawyer in terms of education, upbringing and life goals. A journalist is like a lobbyist (though they make a lot less.) Worldly, goal-oriented -- and at the end of the day, quite dull, when that's all there is.
Sorry, but you know I'm right.

What you've basically described are transnational elites and DC is bursting with them. While I have a very easy life here, I don't necessarily have the same daily interactions with the range of folks as I did in NYC. DC is a large town, it is not a city.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's the people. I know -- lots of us are great. But we are all the same. In my upper-middle-class suburban hometown, there were lots of white-collar types, sure, doctors, lawyers, VPs at major corporations. But there was also...the guy who ran the soccer apparel store. The car dealership owner. The cafeteria aid. I went to school with all of their children. Around here, the people who fill these roles live in their own suburbs. At least in the nice DC neighborhoods, people aren't mixed together for a healthy sense of what life is.
I know that this is the case for a lot of major cities -- in high-density areas, people self-segregate. But DC also lacks the diversity typical of many cities. There aren't a lot of artists, for instance. Yeah...I know that instead we have people from all over the world, and rather than the car dealership owner's kids, my kids hang out with the kids of the guy with a prominent role at an important and unique NGO, or whatever. But that's fake diversity. When you get down to it, that guy is the same as a lawyer in terms of education, upbringing and life goals. A journalist is like a lobbyist (though they make a lot less.) Worldly, goal-oriented -- and at the end of the day, quite dull, when that's all there is.
Sorry, but you know I'm right.

What you've basically described are transnational elites and DC is bursting with them. While I have a very easy life here, I don't necessarily have the same daily interactions with the range of folks as I did in NYC. DC is a large town, it is not a city.

Another DC issue: too many transplants comparing DC to NY. We get it, we're not New York City. Can you stop the comparisons now?

BTW: a population around 646,000 makes DC a very HUGE "town", as well as any other "towns" with about the same size in population,

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: there is extremely little work life balance to be found.

There is more than plenty of work-life balance to be found. You must just run in shitty little circles.

Meet some new friends.

Maybe you need to make more money.

And here we have another good summary of the joys of DC life.

Because this never happens anywhere else in the world...

It is relentless here. There seems to be a compulsive need to belittle others. It's not fun, just tiresome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: there is extremely little work life balance to be found.

There is more than plenty of work-life balance to be found. You must just run in shitty little circles.

Meet some new friends.

Maybe you need to make more money.

And here we have another good summary of the joys of DC life.

Because this never happens anywhere else in the world...

It is relentless here. There seems to be a compulsive need to belittle others. It's not fun, just tiresome.

Hey!... That is true, but still...

I got nothing.

Yep, especially on DCUM where just a disagreement or a simple point opens the floodgates.

[Anonymous]

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Salt water, you idiot.

Throwing insults, I see. U mad?

Okay. The prior poster is referring to salt water, not "fresh" water.

Got it?

(Facepalm). Of course, natural=salt. Got it now.