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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another thing I'd like to point out: maybe it's the statehood thing that gives people in this area such a chip on their shoulder about the borders? But coming from New York City? You know, we'd JOKE about Staten Island, (an actual part of New York City), or New Jersey, or Long Island, Connecticut; but we would never go on such personal crusades against them. I'm sure there are residency cheaters there too--I knew a ton of people in Brooklyn (Note: I DID NOT DO THIS) who rented apartments to get their kids into 321 or 29; or who sublet apartments and used the addresses, used their parent's addresses, etc. I suppose they all are dirty cheating rule-breakers, but I never really gave a damn. I assumed that life was hard enough, short enough, and some things were not my business.

People here seem to spend so much time and energy whining about what they don't have, what other people have, and how unfair it all is. It makes this a really oppressive place to be. I'm considering moving us into Silver Spring, even if it would disrupt my children and their school where they are happy, simply because I am wondering if maybe people there are not quite so miserable and horrible? Thoughts? Is there anywhere in the DMV that isn't full of people shrieking about the people who live five blocks away over a border who are in some way, bad? You guys make Philadelphians look friendly. [/quote]

Mr. Rogers is from Pittsburgh. I recommend moving there.[/quote]

I would love to. Trust me, our entire family is poised to decamp from this hellhole if at all possible as soon as we can. Even the things that are relatively positive here are tainted with this aura of classism and entitlement and... all the whining. I am so tired of all the whining. We get it. You want stuff that you don't have. Why don't you have the stuff? Wah. Someone else has the stuff. Maybe they didn't work hard. Wah. Wah. Don't they know you went to Princeton? [/quote]

Love it!![/quote]

So, what do you guys think? People SEEM nicer in Silver Spring. Is it the best I can do and still be commutable to downtown? It also, having its own industry, seems like it isn't as caught up in all this government political whiny bullshit. Gaithersburg was my other thought... maybe the tech corridor. I'd love to do Frederick, but it's just too far. I am not a suburban person. Our family wants nothing more on the weekend than to walk to a bookstore and have lunch at a decent pub. Anywhere else in the DMV away from these lobbyists with entiitlement issues where we can do that? Would also like old houses. And sidewalks. [/quote]

Brooklyn. Williamsburg is calling your name. Your hipster bretheren will love you.[/quote]

I spent the 90s there and almost sent my kids to 84, except we moved. But thanks. It is utterly insuffrable there too, of course; but at least people have actual jobs, and healthier senses of humor. And yes, I never thought I'd see the day when I called being a stylist an actual job, but the career choices of career politicians make you realize exactly how little is done by so, so many people. [/quote]

Ugh God you again?  Being a stylist is an actual job.  Not sure what you have against creative types.

DCUM - please don't confuse this person with a hipster.  HE/She is just an asshole.[/quote]

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