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 I assume you’re thinking everyone’s a fed, but on my block, there are people in medicine, finance, research, education, a museum director, etc.  Really runs the gamut.[/quote]

I live in a small city outside of DC and it's the same as in my neighborhood.

Stay in DC if you want to but you're being ridiculous if you think the "quality" of DC people is better than anywhere else. Lots of places have interesting people in them. No, not Supreme Court justices - that is unique to DC - but people who work in all these intellectual and creative fields. Many interesting people have left high cost cities, in fact, because it's too hard to keep yourself going in one of the more interesting professions. One reason my smaller city has such a good restaurant scene is that it's affordable enough that chefs can come experiment here. We have a great arts scene for largely the same reason. We have tons of writers here. (I am one of them.)

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Same.  I [u]was[/u] one of those "interesting" people that a pp described when I lived in DC, and now I live in a small town that is an exurb of a medium-sized city, and my neighbors are as, if not more, interesting than the dime a dozen lobbyists/lawyers that lived in our DC neighborhood.  Within a couple of blocks of my house are multiple artists, musicians, a former NYC booking agent who now runs a furniture boutique, a former NFL lineman who is now a successful attorney, a MD who runs a medical practice that employs over 100 doctors, the owner of a hugely successful advertising company, etc. A book that spent almost a year on the NYT best-sellers list was written in the house across the street.

But it's ok.  It would be better for all us out here if those of you who are convinced that DC is full of the most fascinating and accomplished people in America stay where you are.   [/quote]

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