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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Welcome back, OP! Congrats on the marriage.[/quote]

+1  Glad you're back and happy to hear you're married![/quote]

Thanks to you both, and yes, it took a lot of tries but I finally found the one.
[quote=Anonymous]OP, how did you and your wife meet?  How are you liking living in DC?[/quote]
OKCupid.  I didn’t exactly want to give up on being a Virginian, but my wife said I had to live with her, lol.  DC is great, but it helped a lot that I already knew my way around.  I married into a condo and a mortgage, so looking back, it was absolutely perfect the way things have worked out so far.  A lot of people in this thread were telling me to bite the bullet and just buy a place right then so I didn’t get priced out, when I really didn’t [i]need[/i] the space.  I already had a fine rental that was cheap, and I saved the difference.  If I had bought a place before I met my wife, we would’ve been stuck with a lot fewer options after marrying.

And condo living isn’t the nightmare that I previously imagined...street parking is $35/yr, and I have a much better uber set up now than I had in VA.  I usually catch a rider in the morning around Friendship Heights/Chevy Chase, drive them downtown, go to my day job, pick up a rider right after I leave work, and then drop them somewhere between Woodley Park and Bethesda on my way home.  I couldn’t do that consistently in VA, mainly because traffic was so variable over a 20+ mile commute as compared to a <10 mile commute.

In regards to uber in general, there’s not many happy drivers out there and the future is pretty uncertain.  And I just keep doing my thing by driving when I feel like it.  The only thing that’s really changed in the past few years is that my rating shot up after Upfront Pricing started, as riders no longer were shocked at the price at the end of a long ride (which made them take out their frustration on my rating).  Other than that, SSDD.
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What happened with the one star?[/quote]

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