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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That feeling is because Alexandria is definitely The South.
Also hybla valley and Mount Vernon / route 1 there have always been sketchy from a crime perspective.
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OK, agree re Hybla Valley and Mount Vernon, but complaining that Alexandria is the South is odd. Of course a city on the border of the South isn't going to feel like New England or Westchester, but it has its own charm... If you don't like that, DC (itself, like Baltimore, a southern city) may not be the right fit for you. [/quote]

I don't know how else to express this, but Old Town always makes me uncomfortable because I feel like you can sense its past as one of the major centers of the slave trade.  It's got all of the lovely old architecture of other older East Coast ports, but without the same industrial vibe of warehouses and port industry, because the main industry was selling people.  At least Georgetown has the canal.  The fact that there is a clear white Southern aristocracy vibe really compounds the issue.  It all just feels horribly tone deaf at best.[/quote]

What an odd post.  If you wanted to express your dislike of the city because there was a period when there was an active slave market there, you surely could have done that without managing the city’s history so badly in the process.

Pretty sure, however, that there were any number of traders who built some of the old houses in the Mid-Atlantic and New England that people gush over for their “charm“ who also benefited from the labor of enslaved people.  [/quote]

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