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Second, say an agency relocates to Michigan.  You think it is moving to Kalamazoo, Benton Harbor or Howell?  It would move to Ann Arbor, Detroit or maybe Grand Rapids or Lansing - all within 2 hours from the biggest city in the state and cities that are doing ok or on the upswing.  You wanna move the agency to Tenn?  Sure ain't moving the agency to Humboldt or Kingsport.  It would be Nashville or Memphis.[/quote]

Grand Rapids (MI), Nashville, Madison (WI), St Louis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Buffalo ... all great places for federal agency HQs. 8)[/quote]

Based on what?  I have lived in three places on your list. They are fine places to live. I am just not sure you gain much by uprooting Federal agency HQs and sprinkling them throughout the country.  I just do not but the notion that people who live and work in these agencies are tainted just because they live in DMV.   People come from this area from all over the country and bring varying perspectives to the job.  In my unit of 12 people, only one is a DMV native.  The rest of us are from places like the ones you named.  Because of the varying perspectives, we are able to make policy that tries to be responsive to the issues in those places.  We are from those places and we know them.  Do you really want a Dept of Ed where people from South Central Michigan are driving educational policy for the rest of the country.  Nothing wrong with them as people - I am one of them.  But their views on public education are different than those than people in Mississippi might have.  The best thing about DC is that it does draw people from different backgrounds and walks of life. [/quote]

DC is so great because the wealth is so concentrated. That wealth is funded by American tax dollars. Time to spread the wealth, make flyover country great again.[/quote]

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