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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I will not caution you about moving here because I love my life here. It is expansive, My TH cost me 1.2+ in a desirable area. We chose the least sought after school pyramid in our hood by choice and are very happy with it. The cost of living is higher but you get generally great schools, weather, internationally aware population, good restaurants, outdoorsy, scenic, many recreational opportunities, kids friendly (excellent community services for kids) and more. Here's what I don't like, you don't get much housing for the price, traffic is terrible during rush hour,  a lot times during non rush hour, I've seen better public transport. And for all those people telling you "don't move here it's terrible," ask yourself this, why haven't they left? I know, because of their 'jobs.' People are mostly frustrated here because of housing affordability not because of luck of appeal.  [/quote]

DC definitely has a lot of good things going for it, but weather isn't one of them.  Fall is beautiful, but winters are not great.  I've been here for 12 years, and although we've had some crazy snow storms, it's usually 4 months of depressing grey days with freezing rain.  Spring is nice, but sucks because of allergies and lasts about 1 week.  Summers are usually brutally hot and humid.

Yup, and as others have mentioned. I'm stuck here because of my job.  And husband's family.  My job only exists in high COL areas, so I'm either here in DC, LA, or San Fran.

As for appeal, you have to weigh the appeal with the cost.  And I personally don't think DC is worth it.[/quote]

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