SHOULD GEORGETOWN SECEDE FROM DC?

[Anonymous]

http://www.caroljoynt.com/my-blog/2010/03/georgetown-should-secede-from-dc.html

[Anonymous]

Only if NoVa can secede from the rest of Virginia!

[Anonymous]

Oh boo hoo hoo. We have so much money and no power. That's what we get for dissing Metro. I'm a Big G refugee (and Hoya) happily slumming it in Ward 1 and lording over all my influence with Jim Graham.

[ObserverCollege]

It's really not fair that Georgetown has to send so much of its wealth across the city. It would be better employed in Georgetown itself. Indeed, if the tax dollars stayed within the "Town of Georgetown" then perhaps you'd be able to construct a public high school that would actually retain its students.

[Anonymous]

Would they take Jack Evans with them?

[Anonymous]

I think Gtown has a right to a public HS. Why don't its citizens start a charter?

[Anonymous]

A few years back there were areas of Rockville that petitioned to become the more elite Potomac addresses. That was just plain odd at the time. I imagine there were many Georgetown types driving the Rockville change as well as this initiative. It's arrogance on crack.

[Anonymous]

G'town is full of itself and overrated. They can piss off!

[Anonymous]

That would be awesome. They could have Key Bridge, and we could cut off Whitehurst Freeway and access to the 27th St onramp to 66 at K street. Upper NW could put up a $20 toll for nonresidents. That would solve the traffic congestion they create by their density and snobbish unwillingness to approve a metro stop. Then they could live among themselves, argue till the end of days about plant hangers to approve on Wisconsin Street and require that actual colonists build the next chocolate spa on M Street.

Seriously, though, time and time again some wealthy section of a city or county muses about secession. We pay the taxes! And what do we get to show for it?! Inevitably they realize (a) it ain't gonna happen, and (b) the cost and complexity of running a neighborhood city is too much to bear.

You live in the city. You write in all the time about how much better it is to live in the city. You clearly derive benefit from living in the city. If Georgetown were paradise you would not spend so much time driving into and out of it.

[Anonymous]

ObserverCollege wrote:It's really not fair that Georgetown has to send so much of its wealth across the city. It would be better employed in Georgetown itself. Indeed, if the tax dollars stayed within the "Town of Georgetown" then perhaps you'd be able to construct a public high school that would actually retain its students.

It would not matter. They could not handle the fear that they were putting their kid in the "second best" educational option. Hell they just applied to nine preschools for their two year old.