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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have friends in NYC who said it was very depressing to live there during the pandemic.

I feel like living in DC has proven to me how great this city is.

DC has the nation's best park scores:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-has-the-nations-best-park-system-study-says-arlington-isnt-far-behind/2019/05/21/ecbd528c-7b1f-11e9-a3dd-d481bcdabfe6_story.html

Which my family took full advantage of during COVID.

That alone is huge.

Our architecture (adjoining row houses with neighboring porches) makes it much easier to talk to your neighbors.  We got to know many more people who live near us during the pandemic.

As a city, DC has done well in this pandemic.

Predictably, some areas downtown with few residents and high concentration of office workers are still a bit empty.  Not surprising given how dominant an employer the Federal Government is and how few members of that workforce have been called back.

[b]But that real estate will never be worthless.  It's a ten minute cab ride from Capitol Hill[/b].  A place that will never change its address.  I'm fairly confident that's worth something.[/quote]

All this proves is that you weren’t in DC during the 80’s.  [/quote]
Seems a bit desperate to be talking about “park scores” while the CRE vacancy rate city wide is 20%. The industry is blaming delta for the why there wasn’t a post-labor day bounce but at some point you have to wonder if a rebound will ever come. [/quote]

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