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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Crime is out of hand in the city no doubt, but it was very irresponsible of the mother to leave the child in the car like that.[/quote]

Yes, it was.

But still, there were predators out looking for victims at 6 on a Friday. We were very close to a violent crime on The Wharf and since have been spending more time in Georgetown for dinner, a movie, shopping, it seemed safer. My illusions about that are gone.

In the 90s, DC was so cheap. The feeling of needing to be vigilant and the financial stress put together are exhausting. In 90s crime was more predictable, witnesses, daylight, cops nearby all deterred. Now, have to be on high alert coming out of Wegmans in City Ridge on a Sunday afternoon, on the metro at peak fare times, etc. Another bad law was the service fee, costs of eating out have gone up so much. Thanks DSA for promoting that as a win. Instead restaurants are closing and people are losing their jobs, entirely predictable. I feel like we've been dropped in an episode of Portlandia with elements of Skid Row. Wish we could go back to 2017 or 2012. QoL was SO much better. 
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I moved to DC in the late 90s to attend law school at GULC - lived on Capitol Hill and my first weekend in town I walked to Union Station to take the Metro to Silver Spring to a dinner party at a new classmate’s home - on the way into the station I witnessed a domestic violence murder out front. Coincidentally that was the same night that Diana was killed in the Paris car crash.

I knew in ‘97 not to leave my car running and unlocked in DC, anywhere. That’s just stupid in the big city anywhere! I had lived for many years in rural Maine, and later on I lived for several years in rural Montana - those are the kind of places you might go ahead and leave the car running while you are grocery shopping, especially when the lot is full of nicer cars also running to keep them toasty in the subzero temperatures.

Nowadays I live in eastern Massachusetts and while I feel relatively safe, I would never in a million years leave my car running and unlocked, and certainly never with my dog in it! She’s too cute! Certainly if I’d ever had a baby I would not leave it in an unlocked running car to go shopping - that’s just moronic.

Cars get stolen in big cities, anyone with common sense knows this. ‘‘Twas ever thus and ever thus shall be.[/quote]

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