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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was Pre-9/11 before all the security at the airports and you could literally arrive at the airport and basically walk straight to your plane and board--my husband (a consultant) used to cut it as close as possible.  You can't imagine what a change it was to the country post-9/11. Threat levels and the loss of innocence.  And the anthrax scare on the heals of 9/11 in 2001.

We also had just 'partied like it's 1999' and made it through Y2K unscathed.

Everything felt safe.  No pandemics and mass shootings/school shootings were rare and not a daily occurrence like now.

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Uh. We didn’t have terrorism, but we still had to worry a lot about crime in DC. Anyone who felt totally safe in DC was delusional.

I’m guessing you lived in the suburbs. [/quote]

I was in SE or SW DC in the "bad" neighborhoods and never shot. I worked in SW for a while and also went to Tracks to dance.

The drug leaders kept that shi-- in certain areas. They weren't carjacking people all over the place when you went to the grocery store. People weren't shot dead at the mall every other month. Mass shooting were rare.

There were kidnappings around 14th Street, though. You had to be aware. And there were the guys who would want $20 to "watch your car" on F Street NW.

I went to Baltimore a lot, too. The drug gangs stayed mostly within certain areas and didn't shoot up those not involved.

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