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No. Definitely not.

The idea of being forced to drive everywhere, traffic jams, rage in the parking lots, rage on the sidelines of playing fields, rage in lines, racism, HOAs, severing social ties, monotony, etc makes me physically ill.

The parts of my life that would improve by moving to the suburbs are the parts of my life that I wish I could cut out (access to shopping malls, shorter commutes for insane kid's sports, car dealerships).[/quote]

City dwellers don’t walk everywhere so stop lying
I haven’t been in a traffic jam since the last snow storm or hurricane and that was 5 cars stuck behind a fallen tree
Ever sidelines has crazy parents especially dc united clun, Gonzaga football, Georgetown basketball
More diverse in Germantown Md than most of dc
I have friends from grade school/hs/new neighborhoods/life… more likely to gather every weekend on someone’s deck than at a cramped bar,
Monotony is going to the same places within walking distance which is why you no longer walk everywhere [/quote]

Some city dwellers really do walk everywhere. We have one car and only use it once or twice a week and one of those times is for my spouse to commute to a job... in the suburbs. We walk to our kid's school, the grocery store, the library, etc. Also lots of biking and public transportation.

I'm not anti-suburb but we do actually worry that if we moved we'd wind up spending a thousand percent more time in the car. We're trying to find a suburb where this wouldn't be the case as we'd love to have more space and get away from the crime issues but we are never going to come anywhere close to the level of convenience and walkability we have now.[/quote]

Keep in mind that means you can actually afford to live in a walkable area of DC. Finding that with space for two kids generally requires the ability to purchase very expensive housing.

I lived in DV but could not afford an area like that. We could walk to a playground and maybe the library and a 7-11. We drove everywhere all the time.[/quote]

So unable to pay for the urban life, you retreated to the burbs. [/quote]

Yes but also we lived next to a hoarder with a roach infestation and other major nuisances I don't go into. So you can say there were multiple factors like never ever ever ever ever wanting to share walls with a neighbor again. 
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Oh and a large yard is blissful especially as someone who adores gardening... Especially without a rat parade and where I can drink my coffee and stare at my plants in peace without excessive litter or people constantly walking by smoking pot which stinks[/quote]

My dc row house also has a garden? And I have a community garden plot and I have hundreds of acres of parkland. [/quote]

We had a front yard garden at our rowhouse but too tiny and the rats were so bad that we couldn't grow vegetables in our backyard. They came on the deck in BRIGHT DAYLIGHT to eat my herbs down to nubs. We had a community garden but it was a pain to manage our plot once I had kids. It's so much nicer to garden in peace in my own yard which isn't huge, but has plenty of space for the various plants my heart desires. And I deal with rabbits better than rats.

I also mentioned the living next to a hoarder/cockroach issue. There was more to that, but dear GOD, no more shared walls for us, never ever again.

Suburban bliss.[/quote]

Yeah, puppy mills, pot farms and maga voters make great neighbors. [/quote]

None of that impacts me personally living without shared walls. And we did also deal with pot smoke infiltrating through brick walls.

See you're trolling there as your're realllly trying to reach for counters. [/quote]

“My community’s deep problems corroding our culture ‘Don’t affect me if I look away’” is a novel way to promote suburban life. Maybe it’s true but I feel like you’re painting a pretty grim picture of things. [/quote]

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