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The entire spring -- when the weather is actually pleasant enough that you want to walk around -- is busy.  If you can't enjoy the amenities when the weather is good, what good are the amenities?  I'm sorry, I've been here a long time.  I work in DC.  It's ALWAYS packed and crowded, but it is even more crowded when the events happen that you want to attend or when you actually would want to do those things.  One year, I even went to the Smithsonian in January -- when it was cold -- and it was still crowded because all the kids were out of school.  So the actual times when I actually have a chance to go downtown are the times when it's unbearable to go.

[b]My point is that all of the "amenities" and "culture" that supposedly make all of the bad things tolerable are not as easy to access (or as pleasant to access) for people who don't like fighting crowds and traffic and tourists.  
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Personally, if I could relocate job-wise, I would.  And then I'd just visit DC every now and again.  But the argument that is thrown out time and time again about "how could you live anywhere else when there's so much culture here?" falls short with me because the traffic, the congestion make it difficult for me to enjoy those things.  So I really only do so a few times a year, which I could easily do as a weekend trip to DC once a year if I lived somewhere else.

But, sadly, as I wrote in my post, my job is a very niche job, and I am kind of stuck here.[/quote]

+1 
So many of the much-vaunted "culture" here is just inaccessible. And if I never had to drive on a clogged Beltway or 66 again...[/quote]

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