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[quote=Anonymous]My first reaction to this is to get annoyed because I already do a lot of this stuff either via community-led events or just on my own, but I feel there is a significant contingent of people in DC who simply DNGAF about things like keeping the streets clean, making this a nice place to live, etc. And then on top of it there are all these fundamental problems with city services, and then you add crime on top of that (both violent crime and also all the petty little annoyance crime that just wears you down when it's day after day).

I get what you are saying OP and I do think if we all put effort into caring for our communities, we'd all benefit. The problem is that the people who care about this largely already do it, and the people who don't, are not going to start. Sadly, I think the way you address DC's biggest problems is the hard way -- addressing poverty, substance abuse, homelessness, the education system (and in particular the kids who dropping out, are not engaged, not learning, etc.). It's a really hard problem and I have not found that our regular trash pickups or neighborhood clean ups do much to address any of it.[/quote]

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