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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ Here's one thing I don't get - that it's mostly AA, and that we also have a disproportionately high unemployement/underemployment rate among AAs in DC, with so many teetering on the brink of homelessness/financial disaster.  Yet it seems that on so many construction sites, in so many restaurants, hotels, et cetera you will see a lot of latino workers.  In many cases they came 2,000 miles to a city they don't know, barely able to speak the language, an likely not able to produce evidence of a diploma, et cetera.  Yet they were able to find work, whereas people who grew up here, who know the city, who speak the language evidently can't seem to manage to find work?  Likewise, the latinos manage to find places where they can afford to live - and in most cases aren't even eligible for subsidies, et cetera.  Yet the DC-born and raised can't seem to find their own asses with both hands?[/quote]

What's your best guess?[/quote]

Culture and the environment you're raised in.  Contrast it with AA entrepreneurism happening in PG - different values and culture there.[/quote]

Isn't pg largely populated by successful aas who move out of poor neighborhoods (including DC) as quickly as possible?[/quote]

A lot continue to sup at the DC government slop trough.  Many shady, well-connected DC crony "consultants" and contractors have turned their spoils into McMansions in Upper Marlboro.[/quote]

Speaking of a developer who went through the process honestly, did Bozzuto (Cathedral Commons) offer an opinion? I think of them as the immediate neighbors. They have been given very little time to stabilize their new development (all the shops aren't in - are all the properties even sold?) and it is premised on bringing a new vibrancy to that patch (summer concerts, food tastings). Its as if Bethesda lane were just being unveiled and the city anchored the corner of it with a 200 person shelter.

Yep[/quote][/quote]

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