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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]17:53 hit the nail on the head:

We are not saying there are not educated, creative, thoughtful individuals almost, well, anywhere.  We are saying, do you want to be a big fish (one of these individuals) in a small pond (of lots of other individuals not like this), or do you want to be one of a lot of well-educated, creative, thoughtful, individuals?  The latter may give you a come-uppance; you won't be a big fish in a small pond, but you'll be swimming amongst a lot of other like-minded individuals, and, in my personal opinion, everyone will be the better for it.  You will rub elbows with other educated, creative individuals; there will be a tipping point, a recognized majority, of educated, liberal-minded (and I am not speaking politically), open-minded, individuals; community and local political decisions will be made by and influenced by and based upon these individuals. You will not be who you are IN SPITE OF where you are from; you will be who you are BECAUSE OF everyone else amongst whom you live.  It is a synergy.  [/quote]

I guess I wonder just where that tipping point is.  [b]If you work, socialize, and are politically involved with people who are interesting/stimulating - in your small city - what do you gain in the larger city?  [/b]I'll be lucky to meet a fiftieth of them, and so far, I have yet to see the end of the interesting work going on around me.  My experience has been that people work less, socialize more (and more broadly), and have more time to branch out here, so the quality of relationship has been higher than I remember having in DC.  Admittedly, it's hard to compare life stages, but still - it's not hard to find a challenge here.[/quote]

If you have to ask yourself this question, you are clearly not interested in living in a large city.  It's not for everyone, and this is not anything negative, it's just how you feel and what you need / don't need to be happy.   This isn't even related to DC, it's just there are people who live in smaller cities or villages that like to migrate to big cities for some opportunities, while there are plenty of those who decide to stay and raise families in their home cities.

There are tons of people living in DC area for different reasons.  For lots of people, this is their home, where they grew up.  There are also out-of-towners, who came in earlier before the housing boom and don't have same issues affording housing.  Then, they are those who have great ambitions of making it in this city and they will sacrifice some comforts to make things work.  Some of them end up making it and staying here or finding something else and settling.  While others, get discouraged in one way or another and leave.

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