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[quote=Anonymous]There are a lot of threads like this and discussions IRL about this issue of city versus suburbs. I get the sense that these discussions are more intense in DC than in most other cities for the following reasons:

1) DC (the District itself) is changing more rapidly than pretty much any other major city, municipality or jurisdiction in the US. Even more so than other cities famous for change, including SF (and the Bay area broadly) and Detroit. You can see this in many objective measures, racial demographics being only the most famous, and it is something we all subjectively feel. So the whole idea or understanding of what it means to live in the city and how we experience that, is incredibly dynamic here.

2) DC has an entrenched culture of professional people moving to the suburbs by default as soon as they have kids, more so than in many other US cities. The suburbs remained the default choice for professional families right up until the late 90s/early 2000s. Gentrification came later to DC than to NYC and SF for example.

3) DC has become a national poster child for a lot of the most important conversations in society today including racial inequalities, public versus private education, (un)affordability of real estate and so on.

So we can expect these discussions to continue!

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