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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I find that the people who just loooove DC have never been in a city before.[/b]  Most are from Kansas, Nebraska, etc. and have no idea what a city should be like.

I'm from Manhattan.  DC has a lot of the COL expenses and none of the amenities you get in NYC, London, Tokyo, or other real cities.  Block upon block of brown-brick popups, boring government people, out of control crime, and embarrassing public transit that gets worse every week.  What isn't to love!?[/quote]

I don't think this is true.  I know many people who like it here, including foreigners.  I like it here much more than NY.  I don't know of what amenities I received in NY.  The subway is arguably better than the metro but it was packed and my morning commute was literally hell.  The day to day struggles in NY got old.  Having to wait in such long lines for everything.  [/quote]

The NYC subway is "arguably" better than DC's broken-down, delayed, limited-in-reach, no-working-escalators, no-AC, crime-ridden Metro system?

[b]And your commute on the NYC was "literally hell"?  Literally? [/b] So Satan was driving and you were on fire the whole time?

Ok then.[/quote]

You've clearly never commuted on the 4/5/6.  [/quote]

I honestly think the people who come here and wax lyrical about NYC have never lived there or lived there for 1 yr post college at age 22 when everything is cool. Have they been in the NYC subway (or Penn Station or Grand Central) at rush hour? People bitch and moan and get passive aggressive here when the metro is messed up and the train in front of them offloads, cramming 2 train fulls of people into 1 so that there are people breathing all over you. How often does that happen to you here? Once a month? 1-2 times/wk max? That is EVERY single commute in NYC. It gets old fast and the NYC-ers who move here do enjoy the slower, less congested way of living.[/quote]

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