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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People leave when their kids aren't allowed to go to school. [/quote]

This is us. Plus this absurd notion that crime is ok because the criminals are having a hard time. Bye. [/quote]

For us it was the increasing crime and homeless population. [/quote]

Personally, I don't find this particular situation a reason to leave. When we first moved here, there was significantly more crime than there is now. True, we didn't have kids then, but we both lived in neighborhoods where there was far more crime then than there is in our current neighborhood now. I don't have time to search for reliable stats on homelessness, but I suspect that was more of an issue 20 years ago than it is now, too. (I also grew up in the suburbs and spent a lot of time in the District even before I moved here, when crime was even higher than it was when I did move.)

That's not to say you shouldn't do what's right for your family. But I wonder whether the rising cost of housing had more to do with the longer-term trend than crime did -- and whether the pandemic and associated school closings and ability to work remotely from wherever had more to do with last year's.[/quote]

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