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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always assume that the love/hate people have from DC has little to do with the metropolistic factor of where they grew up, but just more to do with whether they liked where they grew up.  One of my best friends had an idyllic childhood in suburban Kansas City. Hates it here.  Another friend grew up in Manhattan. Hates it here.  I have another friend who grew up in non-charming parts of suburban Indiana and finds DC quite nice compared to that.  Same thing with the friend from rural Pennsylvania.  And another friend who spent quite a bit of time in London but didn't love it there, but loves DC.

In other words, DC is better in comparison than a bland childhood. Or an unhappy childhood. Or a stressful childhood. But it's not better than a satisfying childhood.  [/quote]

Nah. I grew up in NYC, and loved it, and still like NY. And I also like DC just fine.  Including the theater.

A lot of the refrain of "NYC is REALLY urban, DC is nothing like that" comes from people justifying a move to the suburbs.  Not that there is anything wrong with moving to the suburbs, but the "its okay because DC is not really urban anyway" meme is silly, IMO. [/quote]

Call it silly, but as former NYC residents, that is exactly how we felt.  Living in DC had most of the negatives of city living with a few of the positives, so we called it quits on DC and moved to the suburbs. If work or retirement took us back to the NYC area, we would again gravitate towards Manhattan or Brooklyn. But DC itself - got tired of it very quickly. It is incredibly parochial.[/quote]

+1. Tho I do like DC, I think i viewed moving to the close-in burbs more in terms of what I could get around here that I could never get in NYC. That was a big SFH with yard just over the city line and 15 min to downtown on the metro, which station I could walk to. And good schools and retail, library, restaurants and trails all within walking distance. That's frigging amazing. In comparison, yes, NYC has a much more vibrant urban scene than anywhere DC has to offer but you'd need to travel so far out into jersey or upstate to get the other kind of stuff I just described (sans the 15 minute ride into the city of course). When I lived in Brooklyn, it took me longer to get to midtown than it currently does for me to get to metro center from my house. We live going back to NYC to be tourists and we like to try out new restaurants and plays when we hear of a good one (tho honestly, that scene is not as good as it could be - there's too much emphasis down here on old standbys - eg fiddler on the roof, phantom of the opera, shear madness for gods sake (how long has that been running at KC? And why???). Anyway, to that also who mentioned bloody bloody Andrew Jackson - yeah that was great but most productions here aren't. And that was the 2nd time I saw that. First was when it ran in NYC during fringe fest - many many years before touring here. [/quote]

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