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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you move to Northern VA and drive into work and park in a secure building you will be fairly safe.

DC is worse at nights and weekends.  [/quote]
+1, DH and I lived in DC for 5 years and then migrated out to VA. Now we literally only set foot in DC to go to work, where we park in our secure buildings. We used to have occasional date nights in DC after work, but we don’t anymore because it’s not worth it. It’s really sad. [/quote]

Huge overreaction.[/quote]
No, it’s just my personal comfort level. YMMV, but I am not alone in my assessment of DC and my conclusion that my discomfort with being out in DC at night makes it so planning a date night in the city isn’t worth it. I don’t begrudge those that have a different risk tolerance, but I’m not going to be gaslit into thinking DC is some shining safe utopia and I’m just paranoid. [/quote]

NP and there’s a wide gap between shining safe utopia and I only set foot in Dc to walk from the garage to my office building.  You can go to dinner in DC and get back in your car by 7:30 to drive home.  If you are worried about it being dark then only do it in the summer.  You are a bit paranoid though.[/quote]
Sure, I could but I just don’t feel comfortable doing it and I’m too old to force myself to do things I don’t feel comfortable with. I work near the courthouses, there is nothing nearby that I would feel comfortable walking to alone to meet DH. I guess the point is there are all these extra steps that I would need to take to feel comfortable and at that point it just isn’t worth it. It wasn’t always this way, when I moved to DC in 2000 I went out all the time, took metro home late, and my DH and I loved walking to and from various restaurants, etc., walks we would never take today. I used to walk from my office to Union Station to get some exercise and catch the train home, no chance I would do that today as people making that same walk have been assaulted by mentally ill homeless people.[/quote]

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