I miss DC Circa 2000

[Anonymous]

I have just skimmed, but not sure anyone has mentioned:

Dan's Cafe (back when they gave you the actual bottle)
Toledo Lounge
Pasta Mia
Mixtec
Buffalo Billiards
Babe's Billiards
Burrito Brothers
The original City Lights in Dupont

Good times in all of them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hear you. I was a wild child in the mid-aughts, worked in restaurants, had zero obligations and just had a good time. DC was slower paced and more provincial then.

Things change.

No, DC was not slower paced and more provincial then. You just had fewer responsibilities, etc. YOUR life was slower paced.

DC hasn't been "more provincial" since the early 90s. That was probably the last time traffic didn't suck, too.

I miss those days too. Life was so fun and carefree! Do you think the current 20 something DC crowd is having as much fun as we did?

We’re juggling more responsibilities. When my parents talk about their 20s and how cheap things were compared to their paychecks, I’m kinda jealous. My mom talks about 85 cent drinks and $3 apps. They only made around $40k a year but things evened out more.

I made $26k a year in 2000 (low level job in journalism). My rent in a group house was $550. I had no car. Minimal bills. I was always out of money at the end of the month. But once I got paid, wheehee! Out I went bar-hopping with friends!

I think today’s 20 somethings are doing all the things we did back in the late 90’s-2000’s. They probably have the exact same DC experience today.

We just don’t know about it since we are older now and our own children are not in their 20’s yet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hear you. I was a wild child in the mid-aughts, worked in restaurants, had zero obligations and just had a good time. DC was slower paced and more provincial then.

Things change.

No, DC was not slower paced and more provincial then. You just had fewer responsibilities, etc. YOUR life was slower paced.

DC hasn't been "more provincial" since the early 90s. That was probably the last time traffic didn't suck, too.

I miss those days too. Life was so fun and carefree! Do you think the current 20 something DC crowd is having as much fun as we did?

We’re juggling more responsibilities. When my parents talk about their 20s and how cheap things were compared to their paychecks, I’m kinda jealous. My mom talks about 85 cent drinks and $3 apps. They only made around $40k a year but things evened out more.

I made $26k a year in 2000 (low level job in journalism). My rent in a group house was $550. I had no car. Minimal bills. I was always out of money at the end of the month. But once I got paid, wheehee! Out I went bar-hopping with friends!

I think today’s 20 somethings are doing all the things we did back in the late 90’s-2000’s. They probably have the exact same DC experience today.

We just don’t know about it since we are older now and our own children are not in their 20’s yet.

I certainly didn’t tell my parents everything I was doing in the late ‘90s/early 2000s, and I wouldn’t expect my kids to tell that kind of stuff, either. For all I know, they may be having just as much fun and taking just as many risks as we did!