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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]N one. Instead, we're all living in condos, smaller houses, budgeting. The amenities are just too good here. Some talk about leaving though, but no one has.[/quote]

This is overwhelmingly the case for us. There's some moving around within DC and the surrounding area looking for a fix, but only two friends moved away. Both are cautionary tales. Friend #1 moved to a lower cost Midwestern City and found that you have to pay for culture. No free world class museums and zoos. They can't afford the memberships so their kids are bored when it's too cold to be outside. Lots of tv. Friend #2 bought a huge house in the burbs of a mid-size mid-Southern city. There is no diversity. Few folks who aren't white, Protestant, and straight. Even the few Jewish people and POC all have the same bland culture as everyone else. It's very isolating.[/quote]

This area is rapidly headed that way with all of the CVS, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Panera, & Potbelly within all of the new condos being built.[/quote]

But there are still Judiaca shops, bodegas, Ethiopian cafes, Italian delis, old men selling paletas from a hand cart, halal grocers, and African braiding salons.[/quote] Most of that is now in the suburbs instead of in the city[/quote]
 
It depends on where in the city you live.[/quote] They will be gone when $15 an hour arrives in 2020[/quote]

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