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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You couldn’t pay me to live in DC. I lived in Georgetown during  law school and I never liked it. Who want to haul their groceries to their house?  The crime is an issue. One that I don’t want to deal with on a regular basis.

I love my big house in the burbs. I go into DC once a year. Nothing there I need. [/quote]

What suburb?  [/quote]

You sound like the most boring person on earth.  Imagine living with a few miles of world-class museums, concerts, restaurants, major league sports, and the seat of government of the most powerful country in the history of the world and not being slightly interested in any of it.[/quote]

I’m not the PP you’re responding to, but I take issue with what you’re saying.

Museums — this is the only one I agree with
Concerts — plenty of great venues outside DC
Restaurants — bustling immigrant communities in the burbs means there are terrific restaurants out here too
Sports — DC area teams are almost all terrible 
Government— the USA isn’t the most powerful country in the history of the world. That’s some jingoistic crap. Moreover, many of us have or still do work for the feds, so the allure of the USG isn’t really there like it is for tourists

Culture in the district is a shadow of what it used to be. I’m not going to pay more to live closer to the couple of venues I’ll go to per year for shows. NYC is worth the extra expense. DC isn’t.[/quote]

PP, you are proving the point.  The fact that you look at all the great places in DC while turning up your nose and insisting that it is all boring and dull is a reflection of you being boring and dull.[/quote]

Nah, it’s that I grew up in NYC (and not the suburbs — the West Village) and lived in Chicago. Then I have the reference points to know that DC is a boring city compared to most other major cities.[/quote]

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