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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have friends who work in government policymaking, and have heard that there is increased discussion about the benefits of farming out some federal functions, agencies, workforce, and jobs outside of the DC area.  The jobs would still be federal government jobs, but they would be relocated and distributed across the country -- to Kansas, Alabama, California, etc.  How do federal workers here in the Washington metro area feel about this idea?[/quote]

Would be terrible if to dumps like Kansas or Alabama, or to equally expensive places like CA; not bad if it were to places with good QOL and COL. But then again, the federal presence outside of DC (regional offices) seem to be second tier.[/quote]

So in your opinion, federal workers located outside DC tend to be second-rate compared to their DC-based peers?  Or do you mean that the type of federal jobs located outside of DC tend to be the second-rate, less-desirable ones?  If the former, your attitude that those of us living, working, and located in DC are somehow superior to those people living, working, and located in other parts of the country -- might be the very reason to move some federal jobs back to other parts of the country.

Some of the very best federal offices and adept federal workers I ever had the pleasure to work with in my federal field was -- not my home base here in DC -- but the office located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with a Kansas-based office a close second.[/quote]

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