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[quote=Anonymous]I've lived in NYC and DC, and like visiting cities around the world.

But in general, DC makes it relatively easy to see the advantages of living in a suburb.  During the time we lived in DC:

* The police cordoned off our neighborhood because of a civil disturbance
* A guy with a sawed-off shotgun was killing people in the area
* A local drug crew on our block was the subject of a pre-dawn raid by the MPD and ATF
* A bunch of post-college kids living next door threw loud parties and refused to quiet down when we trying to get our kid to sleep
* Another resident on our block was arrested for making threats against the President
* Others hung out on the street at all hours smoking weed
* A man exposed himself to my partner and child in the local public library
* Our car was broken into on multiple occasions
* We found syringes on the playground near the closest DCPS elementary school
* We had to listen to people living WOTP tell us how they'd never live EOTP
* We watched as all the kids on our block who'd played together as younger children drifted apart once they attended different private schools
* We regularly had to walk past and around passed-out and inebriated men on the streets
* We had rats in the alley behind our house
* We had neighbors who tried to treat us a free childcare until we stopped answering the door when they rang the bell

Here's the sum total of the problems we've had in the suburbs:

* Some of our neighbors aren't friendly
* Others are gossipy and try to keep close tabs on everyone else's kids
* Once we almost got stuck on a local road during a heavy snowstorm[/quote]

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