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[quote=Anonymous]I moved to the DMV from another part of the US and I like it a lot. This is not a "I hate DC" rant. I'm really glad I live here.

But something I've noticed is that many people in the DMV have a specific personality trait that I find is waaaaay less common elsewhere. And that the "advisor" personality -- people who are frequently telling other people where to go, what to do, how to approach this or that, etc. There are people like this everywhere, but the percent of people I meet in DC like this is very high. Do you think this is a function of so many highly educated people? Or maybe people who work in advisory fields like policy or law?

Sometimes the people like this really know what they are talking about but other times not. Most often, the subject they are advising on is extremely subject or dependent on context (something like where to send your kids to school, what neighborhood to live in, where to go on vacation, etc. -- stuff for which there truly is not one correct answer and you'd have to know a lot about an individuals situation in order to give them good advice, in my opinion), but people speak with such confidence! I do like getting all the suggestions and I have learned about some great things this way, though I also find myself disregarding probably 90% of the unsolicited advice I get here simply because I get so much of it.

Just wondering if others have noticed this about this area and might have insight into why many people here are like this. It feels like a distinct feature of the culture here as compared to other places I have lived (I'm from the midwest originally but have also lived in the Southwest, West Coast, and New England before moving to this area).[/quote]

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