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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^I mean, if you are sooooooo excited to live in DC, far be it for me to rain on your parade.  The museums are great, absolutely.  But the shittier and shittier with every passing year public transit makes it a hassle to get to, let alone the traffic

It's mainly the culture.  There is such a dearth of creative culture in DC.  Of course, it's a government center, so it's going to attract the wonk types, not the creatives, but still... for a large city the dearth of creativity on such a level is kind of remarkable.

Also the people.  Again with the lack of creativity- it tends to attract many small minded rule follower types, whether liberal or conservative.  It doesnt have the vibrancy of great world cities like New York, LA, San Francisco, even Seattle.  [/quote]

I think you'd be disappointed how uncreative NY and LA are.  They are extremely expensive cities and many of the creative types are living off of their parents or trust funds.  It's just truly not that creative. There are Starbucks and whole foods all over both of those cities.  [/quote]

The presence of Starbucks and Whole foods does not invalidate creativity. I have lived in LA, it is absolutely, shockingly, creative.

NY's creative class is being slowly run out by rising rents but they still have a large number of (albeit already successful) creative types and artists.

But yeah- anyone who has lived in LA would know why it deserves the title "creative capital of the world" [/quote]

DC is a political town. To expect it to be heavily influenced by the arts is unfair. [/quote]

I don't think anyone expects it to be that way- but they also dont have to like it or act "enchanted" with it as some others might be.  Look, the only person to blame for making DC the way it is is whoever decided to move the capital to Washington DC.  It's a politics city, that's a given.  But plenty of people hate the homogeneity and sameness that that has caused.  And prefer other cities that dont have that particular and unique climate. [/quote]

Well, you don't have to act enchanted. But, moving to a political town and expecting to find an abundance of arts is a bit weird. [/quote]

Thank goodness that I never did then![/quote]

You never did what?[/quote]

What you mentioned. [/quote]

Got it.  Where are you living now?[/quote]

I live in LA  :) [/quote]

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