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[quote=Anonymous]The thing about Brooklyn is that any area anywhere close to downtown is much more urban than DC. The fanciest areas are gentrified but there are always a lot more people, a lot more diversity than DC all crowding in at the same time. And the diversity isn't rich people from the World Bank or embassies-- it's new immigrants, many working class, who have arrived. So a cup of coffee in Brooklyn can be $5-$6 at a gentrified bagel place or $2 at the bodega (which are often not run by Hispanics anymore although people still call them bodegas)-- and both places are a block from each other.  And Brooklyn is much more ethnic. Yes, it's louder and, while we're at it, the apartments tend to be smaller, there are more walkups, less a/c, you're more likely to hear people partying on a Sat night and your kids are much more likely to have a neighbor who is 80yo that you help with her grocery bags. (I don't know what DC did with all the old people but there really is a dearth of them.) I realize you may be getting a big $ job and you may rent in a fancy, doorman building-- but you will inevitably make friends with people who live like that because that is what Brooklyn is like. [/quote]

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