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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To answer OPs question, growing up here, for most people, DC was a place you HAD to go to for work then go back home to safety.  Except kids liked going clubbing there.  We, the middle class Washingtonians, always wanted a nice suburban home in a better zipcode than we grew up in with 2 cars and the cute dog.  We aren't from Mayberry dreaming of what it's like to walk to a store or ride the subway.  No, we grew up HAVING to ride the subway, with no smartphones, bored as F, counting the remaining stops on the WMATA map.  5, 4, 3, 2, thank God.  We want to be downtown when we chose to be downtown. [/quote]

And then for some of us who grew up here, once we were old enough to decide where to live for ourselves (instead of just living where our parents happened to live), we wanted to live in the District and are happy to be here. In my case, my parents even wound up moving downtown (they're now in a denser part of the city than I am). But I like walking to stuff instead of always having to drive places like I did as a kid.[/quote]

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