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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I subscribed to DCUM back in the listserve days. It was smaller and more of a community then. When things get bigger, the thoughtfulness goes away. Even though it's been anonymous for a while now, the increasing size and accessibility make it seem even more anonymous = less thoughtful and more mean

At the same time, I have long thought that this would be a GREAT site for Russian bots or other intelligence services to target -- lots of high powered zip codes represented here, and an ability to plant discord, stir culture wars, etc. seems like it may be pretty unmatched given this is a plain old parenting site.

I don't live in the area any more and can 100% say that the idea of returning to DC is less and less appealing given what I read here. Even the non-nasty posts validate all my stereotypes about the DC (where I grew up!) as power hungry, status obsessed, rat racy and overly Type A.

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I grew up in DC too and the idea of ever returning makes my stomach turn.  Aggressively competitive, conventional, humorless hall monitors dominate the scene.[/quote]

Also grew up here.  DC is awful and it continues to self-destruct.

Hate it here. Can’t wait to move.  And I agree with the previous two DC natives because the DC area:

Mostly Type-A strivers and mean-spirited, cold people,

No sense of hometown / no city pride,

Transient (everyone leaves),

Summers are miserably hot,

Mosquitoes and ticks everywhere,

Winters cold and gray with barely any snow most years,

Crumbling infrastructure,

Deteriorating public school system,

Unaffordable private schools,

Skyrocketing crime,

Incompetent local government,

Whole area stinks of weed now,

No one can drive here,

Metro on verge of financial collapse from fare-evasion after council decriminalized fare-evasion in 2018.

We are only here for our .gov jobs.[/quote]

Where is the magical place that addresses your list?[/quote]

I could tell you.

But if I did, you’d just mockingly call it “flyover country,” falsely claim it “doesn’t have enough diversity,” or whine about a few MAGAs living in the state and you hate their opinions don’t exactly match your own.[/quote]

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