Pee, Pot and Rats (U St and 14 St)

[Anonymous]

Pee, pot, and rats
Let's go Nats!

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Anonymous wrote:I live near 14th and U. OP is laser focused on one particularly bad - and notorious - corner of a single block and generalizing about the whole city on that basis. Pretty ridiculous.

No. The OP is asking how the city can allow such a bad situation to occur in that area. It’s a fair question.

It’s a big city. It’s one corner. It’s slated for massive redevelopment. How’s that for an answer?

Why was it allowed to fester for years and why does it need to wait years to fix?

Blah blah blah. Just avoid the neighborhood if you can’t take the bad with the good. More room for the rest of us.

This is the part where I wish DC would just intentionally create a Bowery/Skid Row for people like to you go and enjoy the filth so that the rest of city can be nice.

Oh just stop. You don’t live in the 14th and U area. I do - less than half a block to the Trader Joe’s. Don’t come into my neighborhood and start complaining about it. Or maybe you just can’t afford it?

I'm a different poster. I've lived not far from you in Adams Morgan for 20 years and, before DC, always lived in much larger, more vibrant cities. DC tried for a couple of decades and showed some modest successes, but things have been going massively downhill since 2020.

Cities don't have to suck. That's not an essential characteristic of cities. If you think it is then you just haven't lived in any of the world's great cities.

[Anonymous]

I live in DC but saw rats running rampant at Pentagon City, so that’s a problem too. People complain about the trash and the rats but then do things to contribute like dumping their trash on the street, which increases the amount of trash and rats, won’t pick up their dog feces and also don’t want to pay more taxes, which will allow for funding to hire more people at agencies like DDOT, DPW, DOEE and DC Water.

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Anonymous wrote:I live near 14th and U. OP is laser focused on one particularly bad - and notorious - corner of a single block and generalizing about the whole city on that basis. Pretty ridiculous.

No. The OP is asking how the city can allow such a bad situation to occur in that area. It’s a fair question.

It’s a big city. It’s one corner. It’s slated for massive redevelopment. How’s that for an answer?

Why was it allowed to fester for years and why does it need to wait years to fix?

Blah blah blah. Just avoid the neighborhood if you can’t take the bad with the good. More room for the rest of us.

This is the part where I wish DC would just intentionally create a Bowery/Skid Row for people like to you go and enjoy the filth so that the rest of city can be nice.

Oh just stop. You don’t live in the 14th and U area. I do - less than half a block to the Trader Joe’s. Don’t come into my neighborhood and start complaining about it. Or maybe you just can’t afford it?

I'm a different poster. I've lived not far from you in Adams Morgan for 20 years and, before DC, always lived in much larger, more vibrant cities. DC tried for a couple of decades and showed some modest successes, but things have been going massively downhill since 2020.

Cities don't have to suck. That's not an essential characteristic of cities. If you think it is then you just haven't lived in any of the world's great cities.

You're sooo worldly, and we're all sooo impressed.

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Anonymous wrote:I live near 14th and U. OP is laser focused on one particularly bad - and notorious - corner of a single block and generalizing about the whole city on that basis. Pretty ridiculous.

No. The OP is asking how the city can allow such a bad situation to occur in that area. It’s a fair question.

It’s a big city. It’s one corner. It’s slated for massive redevelopment. How’s that for an answer?

Why was it allowed to fester for years and why does it need to wait years to fix?

Blah blah blah. Just avoid the neighborhood if you can’t take the bad with the good. More room for the rest of us.

This is the part where I wish DC would just intentionally create a Bowery/Skid Row for people like to you go and enjoy the filth so that the rest of city can be nice.

Oh just stop. You don’t live in the 14th and U area. I do - less than half a block to the Trader Joe’s. Don’t come into my neighborhood and start complaining about it. Or maybe you just can’t afford it?

I'm a different poster. I've lived not far from you in Adams Morgan for 20 years and, before DC, always lived in much larger, more vibrant cities. DC tried for a couple of decades and showed some modest successes, but things have been going massively downhill since 2020.

Cities don't have to suck. That's not an essential characteristic of cities. If you think it is then you just haven't lived in any of the world's great cities.

You're sooo worldly, and we're all sooo impressed.

NP. This is an insult and not substantive so they clearly hit a nerve with you.

As for original PP I agree with you. Instead of aiming for cities in Japan or places like Singapore and Seoul, they seem to be aiming for Bangui. There are lots of world class cities that aren’t dirty or dangerous. Look at the murder rate in DC alone. I moved to a middle size city in Europe and can walk safely at midnight by myself. Why do Americans equate cities with dirtiness and danger?

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Anonymous wrote:I live near 14th and U. OP is laser focused on one particularly bad - and notorious - corner of a single block and generalizing about the whole city on that basis. Pretty ridiculous.

No. The OP is asking how the city can allow such a bad situation to occur in that area. It’s a fair question.

It’s a big city. It’s one corner. It’s slated for massive redevelopment. How’s that for an answer?

Why was it allowed to fester for years and why does it need to wait years to fix?

Blah blah blah. Just avoid the neighborhood if you can’t take the bad with the good. More room for the rest of us.

This is the part where I wish DC would just intentionally create a Bowery/Skid Row for people like to you go and enjoy the filth so that the rest of city can be nice.

Oh just stop. You don’t live in the 14th and U area. I do - less than half a block to the Trader Joe’s. Don’t come into my neighborhood and start complaining about it. Or maybe you just can’t afford it?

I'm a different poster. I've lived not far from you in Adams Morgan for 20 years and, before DC, always lived in much larger, more vibrant cities. DC tried for a couple of decades and showed some modest successes, but things have been going massively downhill since 2020.

Cities don't have to suck. That's not an essential characteristic of cities. If you think it is then you just haven't lived in any of the world's great cities.

You're sooo worldly, and we're all sooo impressed.

NP. This is an insult and not substantive so they clearly hit a nerve with you.

As for original PP I agree with you. Instead of aiming for cities in Japan or places like Singapore and Seoul, they seem to be aiming for Bangui. There are lots of world class cities that aren’t dirty or dangerous. Look at the murder rate in DC alone. I moved to a middle size city in Europe and can walk safely at midnight by myself. Why do Americans equate cities with dirtiness and danger?

Wrong. That poster is pretentious AF and deserves the ridicule. Not to mention that she must be 100 years to have real and long-term experience living in so many "world class" cities. I mean, she says she spent more than 20 years living in Adams Morgan alone.

Name your "middle size city in Europe" so we can all know how great it is.

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Anonymous wrote:I live near 14th and U. OP is laser focused on one particularly bad - and notorious - corner of a single block and generalizing about the whole city on that basis. Pretty ridiculous.

No. The OP is asking how the city can allow such a bad situation to occur in that area. It’s a fair question.

It’s a big city. It’s one corner. It’s slated for massive redevelopment. How’s that for an answer?

Why was it allowed to fester for years and why does it need to wait years to fix?

Blah blah blah. Just avoid the neighborhood if you can’t take the bad with the good. More room for the rest of us.

This is the part where I wish DC would just intentionally create a Bowery/Skid Row for people like to you go and enjoy the filth so that the rest of city can be nice.

Oh just stop. You don’t live in the 14th and U area. I do - less than half a block to the Trader Joe’s. Don’t come into my neighborhood and start complaining about it. Or maybe you just can’t afford it?

Yeah, no thanks. DC by world standards is a dump. We had friends from Taipei who were laughing at how provincial it was. A friend from London said it was the most boring city he’d seen. We got out in our 30s a few years ago. Thank god for an EU passport. The rats ate emblematic of a city in decline. It’s a rat line out of the US for the sane. Endless threads about leaving. But enjoy your DC life.

I'm a different poster. I've lived not far from you in Adams Morgan for 20 years and, before DC, always lived in much larger, more vibrant cities. DC tried for a couple of decades and showed some modest successes, but things have been going massively downhill since 2020.

Cities don't have to suck. That's not an essential characteristic of cities. If you think it is then you just haven't lived in any of the world's great cities.

You're sooo worldly, and we're all sooo impressed.

NP. This is an insult and not substantive so they clearly hit a nerve with you.

As for original PP I agree with you. Instead of aiming for cities in Japan or places like Singapore and Seoul, they seem to be aiming for Bangui. There are lots of world class cities that aren’t dirty or dangerous. Look at the murder rate in DC alone. I moved to a middle size city in Europe and can walk safely at midnight by myself. Why do Americans equate cities with dirtiness and danger?

Wrong. That poster is pretentious AF and deserves the ridicule. Not to mention that she must be 100 years to have real and long-term experience living in so many "world class" cities. I mean, she says she spent more than 20 years living in Adams Morgan alone.

Name your "middle size city in Europe" so we can all know how great it is.

[Anonymous]

Pee, pot, and rats
Carjackers are armed with gats
Near my office, there was a murder
And people shipped from the border
Pee, pot, and rats.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know anyone from NOVA who ventures down there anymore. It's just not worth it.

Interesting, because I don't know anyone who lives in the city and goes to NOVA for anything. Although that's not a recent thing.

So you don’t know anyone who has flown out of National Airport?

National Airport is in DC. It was built on landfill in part of the Potomac River that is part of DC. True, you have to go through NOVA to get there.

The airport with this address: 2401 S Smith Blvd, Arlington, VA 22202?

The dumb*ss saw a tweet from their favorite DCist reporter that Columbia Island is in DC and then thought they would make up a story about DCA.

The Federal government owns the land but that doesn't change street addresses.

The “city” and state in an address is the location/name of the post office that handles your mail. You can live in town of ABC, Maryland and your address could be XYZ, Maryland.

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Anonymous wrote:Pee, pot, and rats
Carjackers are armed with gats
Near my office, there was a murder
And people shipped from the border
Pee, pot, and rats.

These are really getting boring.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know anyone from NOVA who ventures down there anymore. It's just not worth it.

Interesting, because I don't know anyone who lives in the city and goes to NOVA for anything. Although that's not a recent thing.

So you don’t know anyone who has flown out of National Airport?

National Airport is in DC. It was built on landfill in part of the Potomac River that is part of DC. True, you have to go through NOVA to get there.

The airport with this address: 2401 S Smith Blvd, Arlington, VA 22202?

The dumb*ss saw a tweet from their favorite DCist reporter that Columbia Island is in DC and then thought they would make up a story about DCA.

The Federal government owns the land but that doesn't change street addresses.

The “city” and state in an address is the location/name of the post office that handles your mail. You can live in town of ABC, Maryland and your address could be XYZ, Maryland.

Awesome. Now prove that any part of DCA is located in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:I live near 14th and U. OP is laser focused on one particularly bad - and notorious - corner of a single block and generalizing about the whole city on that basis. Pretty ridiculous.

No. The OP is asking how the city can allow such a bad situation to occur in that area. It’s a fair question.

It’s a big city. It’s one corner. It’s slated for massive redevelopment. How’s that for an answer?

Why was it allowed to fester for years and why does it need to wait years to fix?

Blah blah blah. Just avoid the neighborhood if you can’t take the bad with the good. More room for the rest of us.

This is the part where I wish DC would just intentionally create a Bowery/Skid Row for people like to you go and enjoy the filth so that the rest of city can be nice.

Oh just stop. You don’t live in the 14th and U area. I do - less than half a block to the Trader Joe’s. Don’t come into my neighborhood and start complaining about it. Or maybe you just can’t afford it?

I'm a different poster. I've lived not far from you in Adams Morgan for 20 years and, before DC, always lived in much larger, more vibrant cities. DC tried for a couple of decades and showed some modest successes, but things have been going massively downhill since 2020.

Cities don't have to suck. That's not an essential characteristic of cities. If you think it is then you just haven't lived in any of the world's great cities.

You're sooo worldly, and we're all sooo impressed.

NP. This is an insult and not substantive so they clearly hit a nerve with you.

As for original PP I agree with you. Instead of aiming for cities in Japan or places like Singapore and Seoul, they seem to be aiming for Bangui. There are lots of world class cities that aren’t dirty or dangerous. Look at the murder rate in DC alone. I moved to a middle size city in Europe and can walk safely at midnight by myself. Why do Americans equate cities with dirtiness and danger?

Wrong. That poster is pretentious AF and deserves the ridicule. Not to mention that she must be 100 years to have real and long-term experience living in so many "world class" cities. I mean, she says she spent more than 20 years living in Adams Morgan alone.

Name your "middle size city in Europe" so we can all know how great it is.

Why do we have to love pee, pot and rats to love DC? There is this weird "you have to love everything" to love DC. Anyway, even if the previous poster was 100,would their opinion no longer be valid? We only poll twenty somethings?

Just returned from skiing near Vienna. Somehow they keep their city clean and I did not see any rats. No pot either for the record... Or at least I did not smell it.

[Anonymous]

I agree. So many great cities in the world. Somehow we can’t get it together.

Can we make a deal where we get 2 voting senators but led the federal state take over and disband our pitiful council and get rid of the mayor?

Win win. We can’t self govern — we’ve demonstrated that one

[Anonymous]

It’s so odd that somebody moves to a “middle sized city in Europe” and purports to love it so much, but instead of diving in still haunts a DC-based mommy board. I’ve lived in several places over the years, and when I’m done I’m done. You’re not going to find me haunting, say, a Pennsylvania board to say how much Pennsylvania sucks.

Whenever I see posts from folks who no longer live here yet returning to bash the city, I just think “the lady doth protests too much.”

[Anonymous]

It reminds me of the “real New York” nostalgia where New York was apparently only a good city when it was dirty and unsafe. Cities should be for everyone.