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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll be the rare poster with no ties to Michigan or Chicago I guess.

People from the Great Plains (Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and the middle pf Texas) are generally speaking much tougher than their counterparts in the East Coast. [b]30 years into living in Washington and I’m still amazed at what a tender, fragile and often helpless bunch of people this is. [/b]

This encompasses everything from changing your own tire, to not believing words are “violence”,  to having the fortitude to endure the crying of your child because you actually told them and meant it. And a million other things. [/quote]

This is exactly how I feel after 15 years in DC. People here tend to be spoiled and weak-willed and subscribe to a “do as I say but not as I do” philosophy. Oh, they’re definitely smart, but they’d have a hard time surviving outside of their rich and liberal bubble. There are too many DC lawyers per capita to have a friendly, fun, gritty culture.

I grew up in Detroit and still think Detroit and its suburbs have some of the best food in the country. Going to a bar in Detroit is 1000x more fun than a bar in DC. Summers are amazing but winters make you want to hibernate/die.

DC has metro so there’s more ability to commute to a better job. DC has Feds, who are highly unionized, which sets up a stable and diverse middle class. [/quote]

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