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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC has more and better (and less expensive) museums than any other city in the US.   I lived in NYC.  It has nice museums.  But far fewer museums per capita and none of them are really free.

DC has good parks per capita:
https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/05/28/dc-officially-has-americas-best-park-system/

And yes, it's a company town.  Last I heard, jobs are helpful for a city.  DC has lots of those.

It also has a large and growing homeless population.

Housing is getting very expensive, but that's a national problem and DC isn't looking so bad now that every other area with jobs has quickly rising housing costs.

DC people are very focused on their careers and jobs.  This can tend to make them self-important.  God bless our teachers.  They get treated like crap.

There are some neighborhoods where people are less pompous.  There are also neighborhoods where many or even most people are not transplants but were born in this region.  There tends to be a lot of overlap in these two groups of neighborhoods.

The area is quite divided along party line.  Tell us more about what you're like: political affiliation, hobbies, your kids, your careers, public or private school, and we can give you some idea of where you'll feel the most comfortable.

As a DC native, I miss the days when the Metro was heavily used and ran very frequently.  The Metro, with all its issues, is great.  A huge asset of this region.[/quote]

OP here. Thanks so much for this. We tend to be liberal leaning, husband is from UK, young kids just learning/involved with various sports (they aren't on competitive/traveling teams), likely public schools for now as some of the elementary options seem quite good, weekend hobbies we enjoy doing are basically anything not at home...walking around the city, riding bikes, having a coffee, zoo, playground, etc.....all heavily influenced by entertaining kids. [/quote]

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