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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder how many of you actually live in DC.  We live in the U Street/Logan area and it's basically like there never was a pandemic.  If you need to move to Frederick because of housing prices and "social unrest," well, good luck to you.  You'll be replaced soon enough by the more prosperous.

Oh, a couple days ago a realtor knocked on my door and literally begged me to sell my townhouse.  If DC is dying, you sure can't tell from the real estate prices.

So many suburbanites seem to get off on DC's impending demise.  It's ain't gonna happen.[/quote]
I believe you that your neighborhood is doing great. People who used to go into offices and spend money downtown are now spending their money closer to home. When is the last time you went downtown?[/quote]

I never go downtown because I don't work.  But I know, for example, that most of the major law firms are soon to require their workers to return to the office full or nearly full time.  The delta variant has slowed things down, to be sure, but DC is going to come back.

I don't get why so many on DCUM seem to delight on DC having problems.  It's an odd psychology. [/quote]

No one is delighting.  That’s your odd assumption.

Look - the WSJ had a front page article about this.  There has to be *some* truth to it.

Sure, some law firms are requiring lawyers to return FT.  But major law firms aren’t a large % of employers in the district.  Look at what government agencies and contractors require.  That’s what matters.  [/quote]

[b]It's an opinion piece[/b] supported by a few anecdotes of people who left town, some of whom would have left anyway.  DC has always been a transient city.

And I used law firms as an example.  They're hardly the only employers who are requiring workers to come back -- and, yes they are a large percentage of employers.  DC's downtown is full of law firms, for pete's sake. [/quote]
That's an embarrassing thing to say. It's a well reported piece of journalism. You are starting to sound like a "fake news" Trump in your attempts to rebut a very interesting story. [/quote]

It's not a hard news story.  That's all I'm saying.  If it were, then no one could disagree with it.  [/quote]

Have you read the article?  It contains a lot of stats on employers, new work arrangements, DC population growth etc.  Yes, it contains some personal anecdotes.

I realize the story is likely upsetting to you.  It’s why you’re so defensive.  [/quote]

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