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[quote=Anonymous]I didn't grow up here, most of my friends from college moved back to wherever they are from.  Of people who moved to DC after college/grad school, I'd say 90% are still here.

To me, I tolerate the downsides (traffic, HCOL, traffic, traffic, HCOL, traffic, traffic, traffic) because I lived through the Great Recession, got laid off, and was able to get a new job because there are lots and lots of different companies, orgs, and govt entities in this area.  To me, it's not necessarily making more money that is appealing in dc (because most of that is gobbled up by cost of living), it is the ability to find new employment.  I have white collar friends in some Midwest and Southern cities who took 1-2 years to find new jobs.  In this day and age where everyone is disposable, no thanks.

I also think you run the risk of bad schools in many of these places, in many cases because there simply is no tax base for it, or the taxpayers won't fund it, because there is an inherent distrust or dislike for educated people.  Grew up in one of these places.  And when I say bad schools, I don't mean "ZOMG Marshall is SOOO much worse than Madison" or "can you believe all these poors in my child's kindergarten class", I mean like teaching biblical creation stories as truth and less than half the high school class graduating and legal corporal punishment and stuff like that.  [/quote]

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