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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The good aspects of DC as a city are very different from large cities like NYC or London. It doesn't have the kind of 24/7 energy that comes with millions of people from everywhere living together. Nor does it have a significant amount of creative industries. It does, however, have a lot of breathing room, green space and human-scale size and some cute historic neighborhoods. The crime is pretty bad here tho - I feel much more susceptible to becoming a victim here than I ever did in those other cities. We lived in Logan circle when we first moved here but moved to a close-in burb with good schools and walkable to metro and other stuff not long after. Logan circle was ok - probably the most "urban" vibe that DC could offer but it still felt kinda weak. More like a shiny retail version of urban vibrancy but without any of the non-consumption-based fundamentals that make an urban area interesting. [/quote] Therefore the vibrant subdivisions of Montgomery County or Fairfax County. Pretty much this. DC has some surface appeal but as an urban environment it is decidedly underwhelming. Perhaps you need to have spent significant amounts of time in other, more interesting cities to grasp this.[/quote][/quote]
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