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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're forgetting that DC is a very young place. I know A LOT of young people who left DC to move back in with their parents during the pandemic. There was no reason for them to be there paying high rents when their jobs were virtual and everything was shut down. Some that I know of have come back. [/quote]

Many, if not most, are never coming back.

As a young person, why would you choose DC where the public schools are abysmal and the entrenched local government dysfunctional? [/quote]

Because people in their 20s generally don't care about that? Not the ones in DC with graduate degrees who aren't planning on getting married and having kids for quite a while. I know a lot who have already come back.[/quote]
Sorry buddy, but your personal anecdotes don’t trump the actual data. Your friend who have jobs and pay taxes are the easiest to track and 23,000 of them left the city. Whatever they may or may not care about, that cohort of people are gone.

In the last decade DC gained a net 88,000 people and in one year alone lost a net 20,000. You’re going to need a lot more friend anecdotes to make a significant dent in that. [/quote]

I live in Richmond, and it feels like all 20k+ moved here. SO many D.C. transplants on my neighborhood!!! Please stop the D.C./NoVa exodus to my area. Richmond is left, but not looney left, and there is a good mix politically. Stay away[/quote]

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