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[quote=Anonymous]The reason DC is in trouble is not because families are fleeing or because people can now work remotely. Though, that certainly will hurt. No, the reason the DC economy is in trouble is because Pre-covid on a weekly basis almost year round, tens of thousands of people traveled to DC for lobbying fly-ins. On any given week on the Hill you could have hundreds of realtors, or optometrists, or accountants, or the teamsters, or whoever in town for democracy in action. These folks packed the bars and restaurants, took Ubers, sold out entire hotels, and occasionally made bad decisions and needed criminal lawyers. That’s all gone. It’s not coming back. Certainly not at the scale it once did. Once we come off the sugar high of federal bailout money, downtown DC is in for a reckoning. The hip neighborhood bars on U Street will be fine, for a while. But we’re all going to feel it. [/quote]
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