Anyone else moving away from DC because of local politics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thinking about moving to Vermont. Too MAGAy around here.

In dc?

Maybe in fking Southern Maryland.

Look the truth is I am a socially liberal person. Abortion is okay, we should legalize drugs and prostitution and we should probably do lots of liberal things and love Gay people and all that stuff.

At the same time, we have an uuuuuber liberal city council intent on implementing woke policy that sucks. Yes, woke. I said the verboten word.

It’s woke because of people like Charles Allen who in the face of rising crime looks away and blames everything on systemic racism, for which much blame schools be ascribed, but he also does it too much. People have free will not to car jack, murder or rape. When we have a city council that lowers criminal penalties all while crime rises we have a problem. Charles Allen is a wet blanket who wastes millions of violence interruptors for which the majority of studies show don’t work or even increase crime. We need police.

The youth rehab act, second chance act, teens getting a slap on the wrist and released for violent crime, we have liberal da’s like Racine who push liberal nonsense and restorative justice and all this does is degrade safety and increase decampment to the suburbs. When you basically sympathize with the criminal perpetrators more than the actual tax paying victims who live in places like Hill East you have a fking problem.

Ahhhh! So you’re only concerned about the “actual tax paying victims who live in places like Hill East” and not the actual tax payers who have been here all along, including the ones that got displaced from neighborhoods like Hill East. Got it.

I wonder if you’re equally incensed when your “Hill East” kids get therapy and rehab ? Enjoy Vermont.

Thank you. I was laughing so hard at this Hill East comment.

-"Hill East" raised from '85-01

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thinking about moving to Vermont. Too MAGAy around here.

In dc?

Maybe in fking Southern Maryland.

Look the truth is I am a socially liberal person. Abortion is okay, we should legalize drugs and prostitution and we should probably do lots of liberal things and love Gay people and all that stuff.

At the same time, we have an uuuuuber liberal city council intent on implementing woke policy that sucks. Yes, woke. I said the verboten word.

It’s woke because of people like Charles Allen who in the face of rising crime looks away and blames everything on systemic racism, for which much blame schools be ascribed, but he also does it too much. People have free will not to car jack, murder or rape. When we have a city council that lowers criminal penalties all while crime rises we have a problem. Charles Allen is a wet blanket who wastes millions of violence interruptors for which the majority of studies show don’t work or even increase crime. We need police.

The youth rehab act, second chance act, teens getting a slap on the wrist and released for violent crime, we have liberal da’s like Racine who push liberal nonsense and restorative justice and all this does is degrade safety and increase decampment to the suburbs. When you basically sympathize with the criminal perpetrators more than the actual tax paying victims who live in places like Hill East you have a fking problem.

+1 yup moving in 3 years. Wish we could go sooner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm very liberal and pro-vaxx but I also agree with some of what you said, OP. Or at least I can see where you're coming from. I think the restrictions that have been placed on kids have been truly ridiculous. I think every adult should be vaxxed and boosted and every eligible child should get vaccinated. I think people should wear masks when case counts get high or in areas where medically vulnerable are (hospitals, Dr.'s offices). But I don't understand or agree w masks in schools and childcare settings anymore at this point when all childcare workers and teachers and many of the kids themselves can be vaxxed. I do think the restrictions of masks and extended/recurrent periods of isolation/quarantine are damaging to all kids' social development and also to academic/language development for very young kids. Virtual school is NOT good for most kids that I've seen. Kids haven't been able to have normal childhood experiences--school, activities, birthday parties and playdates, other social experiences. I think we should be more like most European countries that have never closed primary and secondary schools or stopped kids' activities, don't require masks for kids. The kids have been done a huge disservice this whole pandemic.

I don't know where in the US you can go to get away from it unless you're OK being around MAGA people and/or anti-vaxx people. I dislike that extreme even more than the liberal Covid nuts. So I'd personally rather be in a very restrictive area than an anti-vaxx area. I wish there weren't just those 2 extremes. If there was a place where people were liberal, smart, pro-vaxx but also didn't want to shut everything down and wear masks forever, I'd go there in a heartbeat. But is there a place like that? Everywhere I know of is 1 extreme or the other.

+1

We are moving to Europe in large part because of the extreme Covid policies for young children in DC and also because of the crime here.

[Anonymous]

Never think of leaving. I grew up here and love it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go move to rural'ish NC, where my sister + husband + kids are the only vaccinated family on the block.

Most kids and parents on their block have had COVID 2-3 times. Some ofrom COVID. Most of the neighbors still refused to get vaf the kids now have really bad recurring health problems from COVID. Two of the SAHMs on their block have died from COVID while unvaccinated.

In fact, you should switch homes with my sister. They are looking to move to the DMV.

Curious. Is this population there generally on the obese side?

Nope. Mostly active duty military dads + SAHMs, plus military retirees. Dads all got vaccinated at the threat of losing their jobs, but still waited until the last minute. MAGA AF in their neighborhood. No diversity.

Being in the military is a risk factor. Most officers still had to work on base throughout the pandemic. And are you sure there isn't any diversity? In my experience as a biracial ex-military child when a white guy spends his 20s deployed and doesn't have time to date he tends to choose whatever's avaliable regardless of race/nationality/ethnicity. Being deployed takes you all over the country/world. The military has lots of inneracial families of all racial combinations. I don't understand why you're judging for waiting to the last minute to get vaxxed- at least they did it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, moved to Texas. Truly can’t imagine what our life would be like still in DC. COVID hasn’t been in our lives for over a year.

+1 moved to florIda. Normal lives kids never masked in schools. Grateful and thank god every day that we left dc.
-double vaxxed, boosted, democrat

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go move to rural'ish NC, where my sister + husband + kids are the only vaccinated family on the block.

Most kids and parents on their block have had COVID 2-3 times. Some ofrom COVID. Most of the neighbors still refused to get vaf the kids now have really bad recurring health problems from COVID. Two of the SAHMs on their block have died from COVID while unvaccinated.

In fact, you should switch homes with my sister. They are looking to move to the DMV.

Curious. Is this population there generally on the obese side?

Nope. Mostly active duty military dads + SAHMs, plus military retirees. Dads all got vaccinated at the threat of losing their jobs, but still waited until the last minute. MAGA AF in their neighborhood. No diversity.

Being in the military is a risk factor. Most officers still had to work on base throughout the pandemic. And are you sure there isn't any diversity? In my experience as a biracial ex-military child when a white guy spends his 20s deployed and doesn't have time to date he tends to choose whatever's avaliable regardless of race/nationality/ethnicity. Being deployed takes you all over the country/world. The military has lots of inneracial families of all racial combinations. I don't understand why you're judging for waiting to the last minute to get vaxxed- at least they did it.

MAGA groupthink is a risk factor. But I'm now beyond caring about whether they get sick or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thinking about moving to Vermont. Too MAGAy around here.

In dc?

Maybe in fking Southern Maryland.

Look the truth is I am a socially liberal person. Abortion is okay, we should legalize drugs and prostitution and we should probably do lots of liberal things and love Gay people and all that stuff.

At the same time, we have an uuuuuber liberal city council intent on implementing woke policy that sucks. Yes, woke. I said the verboten word.

It’s woke because of people like Charles Allen who in the face of rising crime looks away and blames everything on systemic racism, for which much blame schools be ascribed, but he also does it too much. People have free will not to car jack, murder or rape. When we have a city council that lowers criminal penalties all while crime rises we have a problem. Charles Allen is a wet blanket who wastes millions of violence interruptors for which the majority of studies show don’t work or even increase crime. We need police.

The youth rehab act, second chance act, teens getting a slap on the wrist and released for violent crime, we have liberal da’s like Racine who push liberal nonsense and restorative justice and all this does is degrade safety and increase decampment to the suburbs. When you basically sympathize with the criminal perpetrators more than the actual tax paying victims who live in places like Hill East you have a fking problem.

Ahhhh! So you’re only concerned about the “actual tax paying victims who live in places like Hill East” and not the actual tax payers who have been here all along, including the ones that got displaced from neighborhoods like Hill East. Got it.

I wonder if you’re equally incensed when your “Hill East” kids get therapy and rehab ? Enjoy Vermont.

Thank you. I was laughing so hard at this Hill East comment.

-"Hill East" raised from '85-01

Your operating on the premise that I view people who have had to move, for economic reasons, you know, they normal thing for most Americans when the rent gets more expensive, as having been “displaced.” If by displaced you mean those who were smart and owned property cashed out when their 2 bedroom row houses netted them million dollars settlements, then yes, they were displaced.

Either way, keep being a crime apologist for this ward, rooting to defund the police, and generally furloughing your brow and spending hours agonizing and vowing to “study the underlying causes of poverty and it’s effect on crime rate” endlessly, rather than advocating for concrete steps like actual arrest and incarceration. We’ll see what hill East looks like in 10 years after the ramifications of progressive criminal justice policies have been implemented. But you totally slammed dunk on me on this thread so you obviously win the debate!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm very liberal and pro-vaxx but I also agree with some of what you said, OP. Or at least I can see where you're coming from. I think the restrictions that have been placed on kids have been truly ridiculous. I think every adult should be vaxxed and boosted and every eligible child should get vaccinated. I think people should wear masks when case counts get high or in areas where medically vulnerable are (hospitals, Dr.'s offices). But I don't understand or agree w masks in schools and childcare settings anymore at this point when all childcare workers and teachers and many of the kids themselves can be vaxxed. I do think the restrictions of masks and extended/recurrent periods of isolation/quarantine are damaging to all kids' social development and also to academic/language development for very young kids. Virtual school is NOT good for most kids that I've seen. Kids haven't been able to have normal childhood experiences--school, activities, birthday parties and playdates, other social experiences. I think we should be more like most European countries that have never closed primary and secondary schools or stopped kids' activities, don't require masks for kids. The kids have been done a huge disservice this whole pandemic.

I don't know where in the US you can go to get away from it unless you're OK being around MAGA people and/or anti-vaxx people. I dislike that extreme even more than the liberal Covid nuts. So I'd personally rather be in a very restrictive area than an anti-vaxx area. I wish there weren't just those 2 extremes. If there was a place where people were liberal, smart, pro-vaxx but also didn't want to shut everything down and wear masks forever, I'd go there in a heartbeat. But is there a place like that? Everywhere I know of is 1 extreme or the other.

+1

We are moving to Europe in large part because of the extreme Covid policies for young children in DC and also because of the crime here.

I hear Eastern Europe is a great place to be right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm very liberal and pro-vaxx but I also agree with some of what you said, OP. Or at least I can see where you're coming from. I think the restrictions that have been placed on kids have been truly ridiculous. I think every adult should be vaxxed and boosted and every eligible child should get vaccinated. I think people should wear masks when case counts get high or in areas where medically vulnerable are (hospitals, Dr.'s offices). But I don't understand or agree w masks in schools and childcare settings anymore at this point when all childcare workers and teachers and many of the kids themselves can be vaxxed. I do think the restrictions of masks and extended/recurrent periods of isolation/quarantine are damaging to all kids' social development and also to academic/language development for very young kids. Virtual school is NOT good for most kids that I've seen. Kids haven't been able to have normal childhood experiences--school, activities, birthday parties and playdates, other social experiences. I think we should be more like most European countries that have never closed primary and secondary schools or stopped kids' activities, don't require masks for kids. The kids have been done a huge disservice this whole pandemic.

I don't know where in the US you can go to get away from it unless you're OK being around MAGA people and/or anti-vaxx people. I dislike that extreme even more than the liberal Covid nuts. So I'd personally rather be in a very restrictive area than an anti-vaxx area. I wish there weren't just those 2 extremes. If there was a place where people were liberal, smart, pro-vaxx but also didn't want to shut everything down and wear masks forever, I'd go there in a heartbeat. But is there a place like that? Everywhere I know of is 1 extreme or the other.

+1

We are moving to Europe in large part because of the extreme Covid policies for young children in DC and also because of the crime here.

I hear Eastern Europe is a great place to be right now.

Ehh. It’s only slightly better than Baltimore, nothing to write home about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thinking about moving to Vermont. Too MAGAy around here.

Top kek

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thinking about moving to Vermont. Too MAGAy around here.

In dc?

Maybe in fking Southern Maryland.

Look the truth is I am a socially liberal person. Abortion is okay, we should legalize drugs and prostitution and we should probably do lots of liberal things and love Gay people and all that stuff.

At the same time, we have an uuuuuber liberal city council intent on implementing woke policy that sucks. Yes, woke. I said the verboten word.

It’s woke because of people like Charles Allen who in the face of rising crime looks away and blames everything on systemic racism, for which much blame schools be ascribed, but he also does it too much. People have free will not to car jack, murder or rape. When we have a city council that lowers criminal penalties all while crime rises we have a problem. Charles Allen is a wet blanket who wastes millions of violence interruptors for which the majority of studies show don’t work or even increase crime. We need police.

The youth rehab act, second chance act, teens getting a slap on the wrist and released for violent crime, we have liberal da’s like Racine who push liberal nonsense and restorative justice and all this does is degrade safety and increase decampment to the suburbs. When you basically sympathize with the criminal perpetrators more than the actual tax paying victims who live in places like Hill East you have a fking problem.

Ahhhh! So you’re only concerned about the “actual tax paying victims who live in places like Hill East” and not the actual tax payers who have been here all along, including the ones that got displaced from neighborhoods like Hill East. Got it.

I wonder if you’re equally incensed when your “Hill East” kids get therapy and rehab ? Enjoy Vermont.

Thank you. I was laughing so hard at this Hill East comment.

-"Hill East" raised from '85-01

So that means you left right around the time realtors started referring to it as "Hill East," right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go move to rural'ish NC, where my sister + husband + kids are the only vaccinated family on the block.

Most kids and parents on their block have had COVID 2-3 times. Some ofrom COVID. Most of the neighbors still refused to get vaf the kids now have really bad recurring health problems from COVID. Two of the SAHMs on their block have died from COVID while unvaccinated.

In fact, you should switch homes with my sister. They are looking to move to the DMV.

Curious. Is this population there generally on the obese side?

Nope. Mostly active duty military dads + SAHMs, plus military retirees. Dads all got vaccinated at the threat of losing their jobs, but still waited until the last minute. MAGA AF in their neighborhood. No diversity.

Being in the military is a risk factor. Most officers still had to work on base throughout the pandemic. And are you sure there isn't any diversity? In my experience as a biracial ex-military child when a white guy spends his 20s deployed and doesn't have time to date he tends to choose whatever's avaliable regardless of race/nationality/ethnicity. Being deployed takes you all over the country/world. The military has lots of inneracial families of all racial combinations. I don't understand why you're judging for waiting to the last minute to get vaxxed- at least they did it.

MAGA groupthink is a risk factor. But I'm now beyond caring about whether they get sick or not.

Damn all those who think that freedom IS the greater good and don’t believe that health comes from masks and shots with as-yet-unknown longterm side effects. All the smart people rushed to take them knowing that if they get injured or die from the shots neither big Pharma nor government is on the hook to compensation them or their families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Move to Texas or FL.

100%. Both states are booming. Kids are thriving. DC and surrounding areas and on a downward trajectory.

[Anonymous]

What the heck is poster #2 smoking- hoping to break even on a DMV house they bought 20 years ago??