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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the relatively few who are leaving, it seems like they’re headed to lower-cost, [b]but uninteresting parts of the country. [/b]It’s like all they want is cheap housing and warm weather. In the long-run, that seems pretty boring.  [/quote]

Because the DMV is that interesting?  It’s mostly strip malls and cheap looking housing.  A lot of traffic and bad weather.  Hot summers but no beaches or large bodies of water.  Most people are just here for the jobs.  You may find this area interesting but many of us do not.  [/quote]

I totally agree[/quote]

Same. I'm sitting around my DC house today so bored I could cry. I have really been trying to figure out something to do, and now I'm just going in to work because I have absolutely nothing to do. I mean how many times can you go to those museums (and I work at one)? Hiking Great Falls is out of the question because the masses descend and there's not where to park, much less have space to actually walk. Seriously, what does an empty nester do on a Sunday afternoon?[/quote]

I'm here too, kids are gone three years. This morning my wife and I played 9 at Greendale and tonight we are hedaed to Wolftrap with a picnic.

[b]If you are bored in DC you will be bored to death pretty much anywhere else outside of 6 other cities[/b].[/quote]

+1 Definitely move someplace else if you don't like where you live, I know DC is not everyone's cup of tea. But if your reason for moving is "there's nothing to do," that is a you problem that is going to follow you.

What did I do on this Sunday -- sang with my church choir and then chatted with some people there about an issue for a committee I serve on, had lunch with DH, and then met up with a friend in the afternoon. We walked to a coffee shop for a nice long chat.

A quiet day but reflects my connections and commitments in the area. I know DC isn't perfect but I like the community I've built here and it really isn't appealing to blow that up just to try to build a replacement somewhere else. At this point in my life I can only see a strong enough motivation to do so being if I had grandchildren that we wanted to be near. [/quote]

Your post reflects you are a part of a community--that is great, but it does not talk about DC. there are communities in basically every place in the US and abroad-whether you are part of one or not has to do with your personality not with where you live. [/quote]

I am not this poster, but you have not been following this thread, obviously. Many people are justifying moving away from this area because they claim it is not one where you can form a community. The post you are attacking suggested that’s not the case, and that the problem is with the people who didn’t have their priorities right when they got here in the first place.[/quote]

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