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I'm tired of all the DC area people bashing: tell me what you like about living here!
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I also love about DC:
Roosevelt Island Ollie Burger Jack's Fresh Deli LBJ Memorial park watching the DCA planes fly in from the river walking around Haine's Pointe metro musicians, especially that guitarist around L St. Rare Essence, Junkyard and Chuck Brown Whitlows in Clarendon Kazaxe in Alexandria Adams Morgan paddle boating by the cherry blossoms festivals on the mall or Freedom Plaza Natural History museum Chinatown, even though it's a lot less Chinese now. |
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What nearby beaches??? |
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I love my friends, many of whom have dedicated their lives to helping other people and inspire me every day.
Love my walkable neighborhood. Love walking my child to a school with a tight-knit parent's group, diverse student body, and good academic standards. Love the beautiful mixture of green space and city architecture, and the opportunities for outdoor recreation on the same day as downtown work or play. Love the people from all over the world. Love the short drives to the blue ridge for more playing outdoors. Love my rowhouse. Love my husband, whom I couldn't have met anywhere else, because he's a creature of DC progressive work. Love that I can have a taste of urban life without the crushing pace of NYC, which can be a difficult place to live if you're not extremely rich. Love taking the metro to wherever I want and leaving my car in our parking space 95% of the times I go out. Love having neighbors who have impromptu parties in a snow storm, and seeing the whole block drinking wine in longjohns and sweats. Love that I'm 100 yards from restaurants but on a very quiet street. Love my career, which revolves around Congress. Love meeting people who have done and still do fascinating things. Love that no one I know cares about fancy cars or how much they earn. Love the huge amounts of public space, from the Mall to Rock Creek Park to the C&O trail. Love the biodiversity in DC's relatively abundant forests-- flying squirrels, Pileated Woodpeckers, Black-Crowned Night-Herons, whitetail deer, wood ducks, so many things to see and show my daughter. Love the azaleas. Love the free museums. Love that it's an Applebee's-Free Zone. Love that it's a safe place to be an Atheist (I appreciate this after a stint in Memphis). Love the dog parks. Love the many running trails. Love how many DC people are runners, and the way so many wave in encouragement out on the trail. Love how LGBT-friendly the city is. Marriage equality is here! Love the Wilson pool, though I wish that resources were more equally allocated across the city. Love the Zoo. Love that my child is growing up where she can walk to friends' houses, walk to school, go to free museums and a free zoo, be around people from everywhere, play in big parks, and learn a little bit about city life without giving up a decent sized bedroom and a quiet street. Love the absence of real college football. Don't love the DC bashing, but I never see it anywhere but here. |
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| Amen 12:17. The way I see it...love it or leave it. This is 2010 (almost) you shouldn't feel forced to live anywhere you don't want to live. So if you don't like D.C. go find someplace else that will make you happy. If you do like D.C. make sure you appreciate everything about it. BTW - Silver Spring is pretty awesome IMO. |
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2 hours from D.C. to Delaware beach. That's pretty good if you consider how expansive U.S. is. |
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"What nearby beaches??? "
- 3 hrs is pretty nearby compared to many places I've lived. |
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Born in DC, grew up in Bethesda, moved back after a decade in Boston. Why?
My parents are here. My husband got a great federal job. This is one of the best cities for my own career. DC has plentiful and top-level grad school options for me. I love my neighborhood (Grosvenor) - quick walk to Metro to take me straight to work/school, wonderful grocery store just five minutes' walk, walkable/runnable sidewalks all over, close to playgrounds, close to Beach Dr/Rock Creek Park for longer runs and rides, walkable to Wildwood and White Flint (can you tell WALKING is key to keeping me sane?). I love the Metro - I never drive during the week. Even the awfulness of the Red Line this summer was better than having to sit in traffic in a car. (I will admit that I am lucky in that I live at Grosvenor - where I can just wait for an empty train during morning rush - and work near Gallery, where the trains aren't full yet during evening rush, so I almost never stand.) I love the K St Circulator and the D6/D3 for getting me around town to run errands. I love being back home where I grew up. I love that the same pizza place - Vace's - that was my dad's and my weekend lunch tradition is now my husband's and my Friday take-out tradition. I love that my kids will probably go to the same school (offering particular options not available in most of the rest of the country) I did. I love that downtown DC is so much more alive than when I was growing up. If not for trying to split our commutes (Gaithersburg/Metro Center) fairly, I would love to live in DC proper. I love being a reasonable flight time away from relatives in Europe. I love all the cheap, easy options for visiting my friends in NY. I love my Baltimore Orioles, even though they've been breaking my heart for over a decade. I love all my restaurant options - we occasionally splurge on something fancy, but mostly we have a long list of small, family-run ethnic restaurants. I love the seasons. Yes, even the humidity - I actually breathe better here than I did up north, maybe because this is what I grew up on. I love that we get some real winter, but only little doses of it, not the endless gray winter of Boston. I love summer thunderstorms. I'm not saying there are no other cities where I could be happy, but I have certainly visited some that would make me MISERABLE. We all have different priorities, so I'm not offended if others don't love DC, but it's home for me and I have no desire to leave. |
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Exactly. Compared to Ohio, DC is practically beachfront property! 
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Sigh. Well of course DC beats the pants off Ohio. |
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Earlier pp here. Reading through these I remembered that one great aspect of the diversity here is that I regularly see people signing to each other. Besides being racially and ethnically diverse and LGBT friendly, there's a large deaf community here too.
Also the job market is really good in my field. I make also twice what I used to make in my old field. |
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I would much rather live in Ohio than here. |
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The beaches are far compared to those nearby most major U.S. cities: NY, Boston, LA, San Francisco, Miami, etc. Nearby beaches aren't really a huge selling point for DC. |
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"I would much rather live in Ohio than here."
don't be a snot. the point of this thread is to be positive. either go back to ohio, or suck it up and stop complaining. |
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Apples and oranges. It just depends on what you're looking for. Some people enjoy urban areas, some prefer farmland. Sorry if you find that tiresome. |
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Great post. Do you live on the Hill? I ask as we have thought about moving there. Where would you recommend? |