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[quote=Anonymous][quote=donewithchicago][quote=Anonymous][quote=donewithchicago][quote=Anonymous]If you both work from home, why are you relocating to the DC area?[/quote]

Because we're concerned at where Chicago is headed and how the city is being run. City broke, state broke, public school system in disarray and property taxes just went way up. I voted for Rahm, but he seems way in over his head. We want to see how this all plays out from a safe distance.[/quote]

Of all places, why DC then? [/quote]

Have you been to Chicago? I don't know that you realize how chaotic it is here. We've read up on how DC is run and it just doesn't compare.

Try living in a city where the murder rate is one of the worst in the country, the public school teachers are striking for the second time in 5 years, the city is dead broke (and with $20 billion of pension obligations to fulfill), the state is dead broke (and in a $6 billion hole), there are regular police brutality cover ups, entrenched nepotism and corruption (our public schools head is the latest politician headed to prison), where 2 of the past 4 governors have gone to prison, the current governor is trying to force the city and state in bankruptcy and is moving to gut worker's rights... I mean... Yeh. Any issues the DMV area is having just don't compare. Oh, and our unemployment rate is still higher than the national average. So, yeh.[/quote]

I'm the PP you are responding to and I was born in Chicago and lived there for 30 years. So yeah, I do realize how it is and I think you're a bit naive and unrealistic in choosing DC over Chicago. Where are you from originally? Why don't you move back there?[/quote]

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