Longterm dc area residents, have you noticed decline ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed no decline, if you worry this much about city living crime and schools, you should move to the burbs or back to your hometown. Leave the real city living to the rest of us.

Take a ride with a taxi cab driver who has been working a decade. He will tell you all you need to know about the state of decline the city is in.

The deniers on this thread are either new to the city or have very, very low standards of city life. Perhaps the PP is from Seattle or San Francisco and thinks DC is a step up from those dumpsters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed no decline, if you worry this much about city living crime and schools, you should move to the burbs or back to your hometown. Leave the real city living to the rest of us.

The emperor has no clothes…

https://www.wusa9.com/amp/article/news/local/dc/dc-is-the-most-undesirable-us-city-survey-says/65-08ba43d4-4e68-418d-9bd6-0ccfcfd8dc40

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed no decline, if you worry this much about city living crime and schools, you should move to the burbs or back to your hometown. Leave the real city living to the rest of us.

Take a ride with a taxi cab driver who has been working a decade. He will tell you all you need to know about the state of decline the city is in.

The deniers on this thread are either new to the city or have very, very low standards of city life. Perhaps the PP is from Seattle or San Francisco and thinks DC is a step up from those dumpsters.

Hey, Tom Friedman is posting on DCUM!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed no decline, if you worry this much about city living crime and schools, you should move to the burbs or back to your hometown. Leave the real city living to the rest of us.

I left after living in DC since the late 80s. I lived through violent crime and lack of city services enough for one lifetime. Good luck with your “real city living” newbie!

Wait until she can't get her green hair dye at CVS or her green juice at Whole Foods. What's a performance artist to do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed no decline, if you worry this much about city living crime and schools, you should move to the burbs or back to your hometown. Leave the real city living to the rest of us.

Take a ride with a taxi cab driver who has been working a decade. He will tell you all you need to know about the state of decline the city is in.

The deniers on this thread are either new to the city or have very, very low standards of city life. Perhaps the PP is from Seattle or San Francisco and thinks DC is a step up from those dumpsters.

I came here in 1985. It has gone down significantly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed no decline, if you worry this much about city living crime and schools, you should move to the burbs or back to your hometown. Leave the real city living to the rest of us.

Take a ride with a taxi cab driver who has been working a decade. He will tell you all you need to know about the state of decline the city is in.

The deniers on this thread are either new to the city or have very, very low standards of city life. Perhaps the PP is from Seattle or San Francisco and thinks DC is a step up from those dumpsters.

I came here in 1985. It has gone down significantly.

+1. Yup. And at least back then there were actual Democrats on the Council. Today it’s a bunch of socialists who are using the city as an experiment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed no decline, if you worry this much about city living crime and schools, you should move to the burbs or back to your hometown. Leave the real city living to the rest of us.

Take a ride with a taxi cab driver who has been working a decade. He will tell you all you need to know about the state of decline the city is in.

The deniers on this thread are either new to the city or have very, very low standards of city life. Perhaps the PP is from Seattle or San Francisco and thinks DC is a step up from those dumpsters.

I came here in 1985. It has gone down significantly.

+1. Yup. And at least back then there were actual Democrats on the Council. Today it’s a bunch of socialists who are using the city as an experiment.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed no decline, if you worry this much about city living crime and schools, you should move to the burbs or back to your hometown. Leave the real city living to the rest of us.

Take a ride with a taxi cab driver who has been working a decade. He will tell you all you need to know about the state of decline the city is in.

The deniers on this thread are either new to the city or have very, very low standards of city life. Perhaps the PP is from Seattle or San Francisco and thinks DC is a step up from those dumpsters.

I came here in 1985. It has gone down significantly.

I've lived in the D.C. area my entire life and in the city since 2000 and remember my parents not allowing me to go see theater on 14th Street as a high school student in the early 1990s for fear that even a matinee wouldn't be safe. They were almost certainly wrong, but... I think D.C. is significantly safer today than it was back then, and than it was when I moved back to the area in 2000. I'm surprised that you think things have gone "significantly down" since 1985. It IS possible to acknowledge rising crime in recent years without engaging in hyperbole in the opposite direction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed no decline, if you worry this much about city living crime and schools, you should move to the burbs or back to your hometown. Leave the real city living to the rest of us.

Take a ride with a taxi cab driver who has been working a decade. He will tell you all you need to know about the state of decline the city is in.

The deniers on this thread are either new to the city or have very, very low standards of city life. Perhaps the PP is from Seattle or San Francisco and thinks DC is a step up from those dumpsters.

I came here in 1985. It has gone down significantly.

That couldn't be more of an inaccurate statement. Sure, maybe if you've lived in Georgetown since 1985 and never left, you may be "scared" to see a homeless guy playing music..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed no decline, if you worry this much about city living crime and schools, you should move to the burbs or back to your hometown. Leave the real city living to the rest of us.

Take a ride with a taxi cab driver who has been working a decade. He will tell you all you need to know about the state of decline the city is in.

The deniers on this thread are either new to the city or have very, very low standards of city life. Perhaps the PP is from Seattle or San Francisco and thinks DC is a step up from those dumpsters.

I came here in 1985. It has gone down significantly.

That couldn't be more of an inaccurate statement. Sure, maybe if you've lived in Georgetown since 1985 and never left, you may be "scared" to see a homeless guy playing music..

Nope. A homeless guy playing music is not the concern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed no decline, if you worry this much about city living crime and schools, you should move to the burbs or back to your hometown. Leave the real city living to the rest of us.

Take a ride with a taxi cab driver who has been working a decade. He will tell you all you need to know about the state of decline the city is in.

The deniers on this thread are either new to the city or have very, very low standards of city life. Perhaps the PP is from Seattle or San Francisco and thinks DC is a step up from those dumpsters.

I came here in 1985. It has gone down significantly.

I was here in 1985 and remember the boarded-up buildings on Mass Ave, left over from the 1968 riots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed no decline, if you worry this much about city living crime and schools, you should move to the burbs or back to your hometown. Leave the real city living to the rest of us.

Take a ride with a taxi cab driver who has been working a decade. He will tell you all you need to know about the state of decline the city is in.

The deniers on this thread are either new to the city or have very, very low standards of city life. Perhaps the PP is from Seattle or San Francisco and thinks DC is a step up from those dumpsters.

I came here in 1985. It has gone down significantly.

I was here in 1985 and remember the boarded-up buildings on Mass Ave, left over from the 1968 riots.

Many of those buildings were boarded up into the early 2000s. But they did not cause random violence, stick-ups, carjackings that can happen anywhere in the city during daytime hours the past few years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed no decline, if you worry this much about city living crime and schools, you should move to the burbs or back to your hometown. Leave the real city living to the rest of us.

Take a ride with a taxi cab driver who has been working a decade. He will tell you all you need to know about the state of decline the city is in.

The deniers on this thread are either new to the city or have very, very low standards of city life. Perhaps the PP is from Seattle or San Francisco and thinks DC is a step up from those dumpsters.

I came here in 1985. It has gone down significantly.

I was here in 1985 and remember the boarded-up buildings on Mass Ave, left over from the 1968 riots.

Many of those buildings were boarded up into the early 2000s. But they did not cause random violence, stick-ups, carjackings that can happen anywhere in the city during daytime hours the past few years.

Yes all that started with Trump including the boarded up building and high crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed no decline, if you worry this much about city living crime and schools, you should move to the burbs or back to your hometown. Leave the real city living to the rest of us.

Take a ride with a taxi cab driver who has been working a decade. He will tell you all you need to know about the state of decline the city is in.

The deniers on this thread are either new to the city or have very, very low standards of city life. Perhaps the PP is from Seattle or San Francisco and thinks DC is a step up from those dumpsters.

I came here in 1985. It has gone down significantly.

I was here in 1985 and remember the boarded-up buildings on Mass Ave, left over from the 1968 riots.

Many of those buildings were boarded up into the early 2000s. But they did not cause random violence, stick-ups, carjackings that can happen anywhere in the city during daytime hours the past few years.

Yes all that started with Trump including the boarded up building and high crime.

Ok, I'll accept your premise. Time for the current administration to crack down on crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed no decline, if you worry this much about city living crime and schools, you should move to the burbs or back to your hometown. Leave the real city living to the rest of us.

Take a ride with a taxi cab driver who has been working a decade. He will tell you all you need to know about the state of decline the city is in.

The deniers on this thread are either new to the city or have very, very low standards of city life. Perhaps the PP is from Seattle or San Francisco and thinks DC is a step up from those dumpsters.

I came here in 1985. It has gone down significantly.

That couldn't be more of an inaccurate statement. Sure, maybe if you've lived in Georgetown since 1985 and never left, you may be "scared" to see a homeless guy playing music..

Nope. A homeless guy playing music is not the concern.

There is no logical arguement to say DC was safer in 80s vs. today. There obviously pockets of violence, but as a whole, the city is night and day safer/better.