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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know about anyone else, but I despair at what I see in DC.  I have lived here for 30 plus years.  I find the gentrification is bringing things to DC I don't need or like and pushing things out I used to enjoy.  I actually enjoyed the grittier, dirtier feel that I exisited when I arrived in 1984.  Downtown was certainly much more alive, with a varietyof shops, four department stores, bookshops everywhere. Now, it's all cookie cutter chain stores.  Locals who have lived here forever are being pushed out and have to fight with the gentrifiers who want to take away their parking for bike lanes or complain about homegrown art forms like loud go go music.  I guess maybe I'm like my old New Yorker friend who liked the pre-Giluiani, pre-Disneyfied New York.

Last night I took a very long walk from Mt. Pleasant to downtown and noticed so many missing places.  It was sad. And you still cannot get good pizza in this town.  [/quote]
My friend if you the gradual decay of the circa-80's DC atmosphere is leaving you in despair you may want to seek some therapy because your overall problem is accepting the basic principle of the passage of time and until you come to grips with that realization you'll never be truly able to enjoy the present.  [/quote]

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