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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was thinking yesterday about how DC is a trap. I’m sick of it here, tied of the hyper-competitive people and the exhausting political virtual signaling (I’m a lefty, I just don’t care about “winning” the DC game of “who’s the MOST progressive?”). People here are addicted to work and prestige and as a west coast transplant, it’s disturbing how much even mid-level office drones think their job is the most interesting thing about them. And even people with hobbies are weird about it. Again, just competitive in an almost dispassionate way. It’s exhausting and I can’t believe we are raising kids here.

But every time we talk about leaving, it’s impossible. DC is expensive but so are lots of places. The weather here sucks and yet is weirdly middle of the road. Once you’ve been here for over a decade, going somewhere much warmer or colder feels hard. I dislike the work culture here, but there are so many jobs and they pay well and the city is so resistant to downturn (knock on wood). Buying a home here is miserable but once you have one the idea of selling it and missing out on certain appreciation is unappealing. And so on.

It’s like I dislike DC but it’s too hard to leave.[/quote]

DC isn’t even all that progressive. What are you talking about?[/quote]

PP and I agree with you. But there is a weird culture in DC that I have never experienced elsewhere where people are always trying to one up each other on the external signifiers of being progressive. I find myself just rolling my eyes at everyone’s “tolerance” and MLK quote yard signs, especially when you know they send their kids to majority white charters. Another weird thing in DC is how often people will pontificate about some political issue they just learned about yesterday, or on which they have the shallowest of understanding, as though they are done kind of academic scholar. It’s like, girl, I read Twitter too, you don’t need to explain what BLM or MeToo is.[/quote]

Eh, all states have something. Seattle Freeze. Bay Area is all about networking for your startup or wannabe Google  career or virtue signaling granola living.

LA is very image conscious and so many people in the industry.

NYC is full of themselves and proud to be rude.

Chicago out to prove it’s not flyover country.

The South with it’s a fake politeness and not so fake racism (Though Boston is hands down the most racist city, and has winters are brutal)

On and on. Everyplace has something awful. We prefer California b/c our preference is access to nature, but DC is fine. There is plenty of nature here, it’s one of the most walkable metros in the US, and weather is actually quite mild overall, though more grey than I would like. And yes “what do you do” is a thing but many places have that and no worse then the obsessive surfers in CA.

One thing amuses me is how outdoorsy people love to flock to Cali, but once the acclimate to that climate, being outdoors almost anywhere else in the world but California is a hardship![/quote]

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