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[quote=Anonymous]I lived in DC for nine years, and here's what I noticed: people in DC tend to be hard workers, overachievers, competitive, a tad bit self-involved, easily stressed, and socially awkward. I think it comes from being the geeky kid in middle school who worked hard and succeeded, and thus got a job in government or law or another career that attracted them to DC. Where they all settled down and raised overachieving children who were hard workers, competitive, awkward, etc.

Obviously not everyone in DC is like this, but I do think that this is the type of person the city attracts. People just don't seem to have the same social skills and there's not the same gregariousness that you see in other cities (and I have literally lived all over the world, parents were in military). I found it very hard to make friends in DC...and I had tons of friends all my life until I moved here. I remember trying so hard to make small talk with people. You say, "How are you?" They say, "Fine." You say, "Have you read any good books lately?" They say, "Not really." It's like pulling teeth and it's hard to make the personal connection.

Plus everybody is so tired from the long hours and the commute that they don't have the time/energy to hang out after work.

I had about a dozen close friends in DC, but it wasn't until I moved away that I saw they were really acquaintances. In the three months I have been in my new city, I have made so many and so much more engaging friends than I did in a decade in DC. [/quote]

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