Reply to How can you NOT like living in DC?

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "How can you NOT like living in DC?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just jumping in to say, the things people love and hate about DC are not "situational to the person."  The truth is DC is a VERY unique city and the unique aspects are what make people love or hate it.  And they need to be generally true regardless of personal situation.

For example:
DC negatives:
- Uniquely expensive, especially for what it has to offer.  Yes NYC is more expensive, but then you are living in NYC!  In DC it is expensive even if you live in a suburb with a long commute.  And this is no NYC in terms of excitement, culture, wow factor.
- Uniquely high traffic.  Again see above.
- Unique in having a very small middle class.  I've never seen anything like it.   Where are the everyday joes?  Which, then creates the crazy rich versus poor, black versus white divide.
- Unique government structure (no representation.  Small city core with Federal Government overlay==terribly run city.)
- Unusually transit.

DC positives:
- Unique policy and government jobs.  Booming economy.  Interesting jobs.  Highly educated workforce.  All unique because of the government economy.
- Lots of free museums. Again, a quirk of being the capital city.
- Unique highly educated, highly international population.

[/quote]

PP poster.  I meant to say: And they TEND to be generally true regardless of personal situation. 
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics