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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I drove to DC today and it was a ghost town with mostly homeless people, tents, and the smell of weed stinking the air. It's definitely different than 2 years a go. [/quote]

Newsflash:  it’s December 23.  DC is always empty around Christmas.  Obviously you don’t live here.  [/quote]

I was downtown for lunch. And if anything I was surprised at how many people were in town.

I keep having this same conversation with my coworkers who live in the suburbs. They all seem to think that we are a bombed out, post apocalyptic, barren city. And I keep having to correct them: most neighborhoods in DC (outside of the downtown/Penn Quarter/L'Enfant plaza area) are bustling and quite the opposite of a ghost town. [/quote]
“Neighborhoods”. That’s the point and the key distinction. Even if the most central, dense and urbanized neighborhoods are not doing so well. By contrast, shopping and dining options in the suburbs are going gang busters: particularly Pike & Rose and the Mosaic District.

I go downtown every day for work and can confirm the following trends:
- for food, almost all chains are still open but probably [b]50% of “mom and pop” places have closed [/b]and most places have substantially reduced their hours. 
- while food is surviving, barely, downtown retail is almost completely disappearing.
- vehicle traffic is probably 80% of normal but foot traffic is probably 20% of what it used to be. 
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Agree with all of this.

Lots of the locally-owned places people in the office would go for lunch have sadly shut down! [/quote]

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