Why don’t Americans embrace urban living?

[Anonymous]

It’s not that. It’s the siren song of Brambleton that pulls them away!

[Anonymous]

Bindulgent!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You couldn’t pay me to live in DC. I lived in Georgetown during law school and I never liked it. Who want to haul their groceries to their house? The crime is an issue. One that I don’t want to deal with on a regular basis.

I love my big house in the burbs. I go into DC once a year. Nothing there I need.

What suburb?

You sound like the most boring person on earth. Imagine living with a few miles of world-class museums, concerts, restaurants, major league sports, and the seat of government of the most powerful country in the history of the world and not being slightly interested in any of it.

I’m not the PP you’re responding to, but I take issue with what you’re saying.

Museums — this is the only one I agree with
Concerts — plenty of great venues outside DC
Restaurants — bustling immigrant communities in the burbs means there are terrific restaurants out here too
Sports — DC area teams are almost all terrible
Government— the USA isn’t the most powerful country in the history of the world. That’s some jingoistic crap. Moreover, many of us have or still do work for the feds, so the allure of the USG isn’t really there like it is for tourists

Culture in the district is a shadow of what it used to be. I’m not going to pay more to live closer to the couple of venues I’ll go to per year for shows. NYC is worth the extra expense. DC isn’t.

[Anonymous]

Brambleton Culture! I love saying “Brambleton”. It’s like it tells you what it is. Other locales hide like “Silver Spring” which is neither.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You couldn’t pay me to live in DC. I lived in Georgetown during law school and I never liked it. Who want to haul their groceries to their house? The crime is an issue. One that I don’t want to deal with on a regular basis.

I love my big house in the burbs. I go into DC once a year. Nothing there I need.

What suburb?

You sound like the most boring person on earth. Imagine living with a few miles of world-class museums, concerts, restaurants, major league sports, and the seat of government of the most powerful country in the history of the world and not being slightly interested in any of it.

I’m not the PP you’re responding to, but I take issue with what you’re saying.

Museums — this is the only one I agree with
Concerts — plenty of great venues outside DC
Restaurants — bustling immigrant communities in the burbs means there are terrific restaurants out here too
Sports — DC area teams are almost all terrible
Government— the USA isn’t the most powerful country in the history of the world. That’s some jingoistic crap. Moreover, many of us have or still do work for the feds, so the allure of the USG isn’t really there like it is for tourists

Culture in the district is a shadow of what it used to be. I’m not going to pay more to live closer to the couple of venues I’ll go to per year for shows. NYC is worth the extra expense. DC isn’t.

PP, you are proving the point. The fact that you look at all the great places in DC while turning up your nose and insisting that it is all boring and dull is a reflection of you being boring and dull.

[Anonymous]

She’s bindulging let her be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You couldn’t pay me to live in DC. I lived in Georgetown during law school and I never liked it. Who want to haul their groceries to their house? The crime is an issue. One that I don’t want to deal with on a regular basis.

I love my big house in the burbs. I go into DC once a year. Nothing there I need.

What suburb?

You sound like the most boring person on earth. Imagine living with a few miles of world-class museums, concerts, restaurants, major league sports, and the seat of government of the most powerful country in the history of the world and not being slightly interested in any of it.

I’m not the PP you’re responding to, but I take issue with what you’re saying.

Museums — this is the only one I agree with
Concerts — plenty of great venues outside DC
Restaurants — bustling immigrant communities in the burbs means there are terrific restaurants out here too
Sports — DC area teams are almost all terrible
Government— the USA isn’t the most powerful country in the history of the world. That’s some jingoistic crap. Moreover, many of us have or still do work for the feds, so the allure of the USG isn’t really there like it is for tourists

Culture in the district is a shadow of what it used to be. I’m not going to pay more to live closer to the couple of venues I’ll go to per year for shows. NYC is worth the extra expense. DC isn’t.

PP, you are proving the point. The fact that you look at all the great places in DC while turning up your nose and insisting that it is all boring and dull is a reflection of you being boring and dull.

Nah, it’s that I grew up in NYC (and not the suburbs — the West Village) and lived in Chicago. Then I have the reference points to know that DC is a boring city compared to most other major cities.

[Anonymous]

Let me elaborate: DC has a couple great venues. The Black Cat and the 9:30 club are legitimately great. NYC has dozens upon dozens. As does Chicago and LA.

There’s just no comparison. Why do you think most artists don’t live in this area?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me elaborate: DC has a couple great venues. The Black Cat and the 9:30 club are legitimately great. NYC has dozens upon dozens. As does Chicago and LA.

There’s just no comparison. Why do you think most artists don’t live in this area?

Sure, sure OP. World class artists never appear at the Kennedy Center. There is nothing interesting at a single one of the art museums in town. There's not even one Michelin-starred restaurant in town. You can never get a chance to see the greatest basketball players in the world at Capital One. No lectures or conferences or anything that might be of interest at one of the highly ranked national universities in DC. Never a festival, or protest, or march related to the fact that we live in the nation's capitol.

Your basic position seems to be that you are such a hip New Yorker that you have no need to do anything but go to the Applebees in Annandale.

[Anonymous]

Schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You couldn’t pay me to live in DC. I lived in Georgetown during law school and I never liked it. Who want to haul their groceries to their house? The crime is an issue. One that I don’t want to deal with on a regular basis.

I love my big house in the burbs. I go into DC once a year. Nothing there I need.

What suburb?

You sound like the most boring person on earth. Imagine living with a few miles of world-class museums, concerts, restaurants, major league sports, and the seat of government of the most powerful country in the history of the world and not being slightly interested in any of it.

I’m not the PP you’re responding to, but I take issue with what you’re saying.

Museums — this is the only one I agree with
Concerts — plenty of great venues outside DC
Restaurants — bustling immigrant communities in the burbs means there are terrific restaurants out here too
Sports — DC area teams are almost all terrible
Government— the USA isn’t the most powerful country in the history of the world. That’s some jingoistic crap. Moreover, many of us have or still do work for the feds, so the allure of the USG isn’t really there like it is for tourists

Culture in the district is a shadow of what it used to be. I’m not going to pay more to live closer to the couple of venues I’ll go to per year for shows. NYC is worth the extra expense. DC isn’t.

PP, you are proving the point. The fact that you look at all the great places in DC while turning up your nose and insisting that it is all boring and dull is a reflection of you being boring and dull.

Nah, it’s that I grew up in NYC (and not the suburbs — the West Village) and lived in Chicago. Then I have the reference points to know that DC is a boring city compared to most other major cities.

So then you went even boring-er than the boring DC? Brave and boring.

[Anonymous]

Our country is big and isn't full

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You couldn’t pay me to live in DC. I lived in Georgetown during law school and I never liked it. Who want to haul their groceries to their house? The crime is an issue. One that I don’t want to deal with on a regular basis.

I love my big house in the burbs. I go into DC once a year. Nothing there I need.

What suburb?

You sound like the most boring person on earth. Imagine living with a few miles of world-class museums, concerts, restaurants, major league sports, and the seat of government of the most powerful country in the history of the world and not being slightly interested in any of it.

But enough about Rome

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let me elaborate: DC has a couple great venues. The Black Cat and the 9:30 club are legitimately great. NYC has dozens upon dozens. As does Chicago and LA.

There’s just no comparison. Why do you think most artists don’t live in this area?

Sure, sure OP. World class artists never appear at the Kennedy Center. There is nothing interesting at a single one of the art museums in town. There's not even one Michelin-starred restaurant in town. You can never get a chance to see the greatest basketball players in the world at Capital One. No lectures or conferences or anything that might be of interest at one of the highly ranked national universities in DC. Never a festival, or protest, or march related to the fact that we live in the nation's capitol.

Your basic position seems to be that you are such a hip New Yorker that you have no need to do anything but go to the Applebees in Annandale.

This isn’t that convincing. The same artists that visit the Kennedy center visit Kansas City.

Same with pretty much everything else you mentioned.

[Anonymous]

I used to think it was race but Salt Lake City was built from scratch by industrious white people and instead of making it look like Switzerland or Netherlands, they just went with the most uninspiring urban design

Americans really just don’t get it