Reply to What would make DC more appealing for young professionals?

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "What would make DC more appealing for young professionals?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do think it is harder to be young and broke-ish in DC, or at least in the way my friends lived in those post-college years.  Not enough apartments (too many condos), rents are high for even pretty small places, not a real long-term rental culture like in NY.  Also not enough independently owned and cheap (but delicious) restaurants in DC.  I know every other city has expensive and fancy restaurants, but many ALSO have great dives, holes -in-the-wall, and take out places where you can eat cheaply and quickly if you need to.  Often these are ethnic restaurants and most of the great/cheap ethnic places in the DC area are in the suburbs.
[b]DC's too corporate or something.[/b]  
 [/quote]
True. Lots of young people move here for Hill jobs, non-profits, etc. with dreams of changing the world. But the $45k or whatever legislative assistants get paid these days, or entry level non-profit staffers, etc. doesn't go that far in DC. Much easier to make it on a Deloitte salary, and there are SO MANY of those types of jobs here. Thus a kind of corporate culture. That said, I still think it's a young professional's city for sure, and don't agree with the premise of the thread. [/quote]

In 1993, my salary on the Hill was $15k with a Master's Degree. Somehow I made it, as others do.[/quote]
what was the COL in 1993 compared to today?[/quote]

$30,744. Not much more. I had 5 roommates and lived in the hood.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics