People that say DC is transient forget entirely about the SE & NE quadrants.

NW may be transient, but even that, not so much.

The difference is that with other major cities (NY, BOS, Chicago), when people move there, they like to pretend they've lived there all along. In DC, people still say they are from elsewhere.

In my experience, NYC is very transient for certain demographics. Young professionals who move here for work don't tend to stay once they start families.

Is DC a major city? Isn’t it just a town full of locals + backwater hicks who didn’t get a good enough GPA to do anything other than work in politics? Population of well less than a million. Columbus Ohio, Jacksonville Florida, and Oklahoma City are all bigger.

I think I disagree with NYC. It might be the most transient by raw numbers compared to other cities, but transient people as a proportion of total people who live there is maybe lower than other cities. It’s just not something you encounter if you only hang out with other people who are transient like you or if you only live in certain parts of Manhattan or Brooklyn.

Source: no data, just lived there forever but was always the new kid compared to my neighbors who had been there for many generations (and many of them never left the boroughs for years at a time).

DC is very transient to me. Someone above mentioned Seattle. So transient. My kid lost more classmates to moves when we were there than when we were expats at an international school!

Kamala will make DC the 51st state for sure.

NYC

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DC too unless you don't count it as a major city

D.C. is transient AF.

DC is by far the most transient.

- military
- Congress
- all the embassies
- all the services/related industries supporting embassies + congress
- all the lobbyists who are only here due to congress
- 4 major universities inside city limits plus several smaller ones

Anonymous wrote:It has to be here given all the foreign ngos and people coming for government jobs. I don’t meet many people who are actually from here, including myself.

That is because you don’t spend any time at all in Anacostia / Ward 8. Every one there is a native.

I’ve lived in Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, LA, Boston, NY and DC at various points in my life. I would say nyc is the most transient in the US

Anonymous wrote:It has to be here given all the foreign ngos and people coming for government jobs. I don’t meet many people who are actually from here, including myself.

It’s a sign of age. I am not here but my kids will be. I have tons of friends who grew up here.

It has to be here given all the foreign ngos and people coming for government jobs. I don’t meet many people who are actually from here, including myself.

I’d put San Francisco on that list.

I've heard DC and LA called transient. NYC likely probably is too. Which one tops the list though?