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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems like there are a lot of people who would be, or think they would be, happier living somewhere else.[/quote]
To the contrary. What you seeing is a lot of people who are VERY HAPPY about where they live. [/quote]

They're so happy, they can't stop posting about how much they hate the city they live near.[/quote]
You mean the city that they chose not to live in. I’m not sure how you don’t understand this. [/quote]

+1. People who live in DC often take a very narrow-minded view of the suburbs and think that they're just full of people who would live in DC but are priced out. The truth is that many of us are totally happy in the suburbs, and we really only come into DC for work and don't find anything about DC to be particularly enjoyable. I'm sure this is true of other major cities as well; not everyone has bought into the idea that you can't have an exciting and fulfilling life if you don't live in a city.[/quote]

There's a big difference between 'don't find anything about DC to be particularly enjoyable' and 'relentless post on DCUM about the hell that is DC'.[/quote]
I think the issue moreso is that there is a group of relentless DC boosters who seem to believe that everyone wants to live in the city and take it personally that they don’t. By jumping to the exaggeration that people are calling DC “hell” you are unwilling to confront what people are actually saying about their preferences and issues with the city instead of getting so defensive.

I get it, you have this extreme close bond with the place you live. Well other people feel similarly about where they live as well in places that are not DC. I get that you have a dim view of the suburbs and suburbanites, but your reaction is to project that onto others. [/quote]

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