Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I returned home from visiting family in Texas for about a week. It was so nice to have a stretch of time when I could exit my car without having to first look around for potential carjackers.

I took am thinking of how we can get away as much as possible for this very reason. The sad thing is a lot of the people our feeble far left politicians represent don't have the resources to do that. They're trapped.

We've been here 30+ years and thought we were lifers. Actively planning to move.

Genuinely felt safer in Adams Morgan in the 90s, crime was more predictable and daylight and witnesses were deterrents. Thought city life would give my kids freedom and transit options but metro is not nearly as safe as it was.

Living like this is stressful. 2 friends who live in nice condo buildings, one in FH and one in NoMA have had the building front doors crowbarred open and thieves roaming around, in one case, threatening people. The one in NoMA has had her condo for years but is going to take a hit selling it.

DC is an outlier re: crime trends. I'm not sure how those invested in denying it aggressively benefit.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Valid points. DC Government is worse now than during the Marion Berry years. He was a much better Mayer than Bowser.

Bowser INHERITED the Marion Barry political machine, and she revived it.

Same people. Same corruption as all the awful Barry years.

Only this time, DC has a woke city counsel doing everything it can to sabotage the already-terrible police department.

All true. Eventually the funds will dry up and rein some of this in but a lot of people are going to die, be robbed or be carjacked in the meantime.

The schools were better under Fenty. There has been a decline, if you have several spaced out kids it's unmistakable .

In 2023 there were no homicides until Jan 4, in 2024, 2 women were murdered overnight on Jan 1.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/washington-dc-ends-brutal-2023-with-highest-murder-rate-in-decades/ar-AA1mjZa0

Anonymous wrote:And yet, housing prices keep rising. That means sustained demand. For every aging millennial that leaves DC, there seem to be a least a couple GenZers who want to move in, regardless of crime.

Not convinced DC won't revert to former patterns on this one.

Anonymous wrote:Valid points. DC Government is worse now than during the Marion Berry years. He was a much better Mayer than Bowser.

Bowser INHERITED the Marion Barry political machine, and she revived it.

Same people. Same corruption as all the awful Barry years.

Only this time, DC has a woke city counsel doing everything it can to sabotage the already-terrible police department.

Born and raised here. Entire family is here. Fed jobs, kids are in decent schools in DC public’s and frankly, I’m fine.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I returned home from visiting family in Texas for about a week. It was so nice to have a stretch of time when I could exit my car without having to first look around for potential carjackers.

I took am thinking of how we can get away as much as possible for this very reason. The sad thing is a lot of the people our feeble far left politicians represent don't have the resources to do that. They're trapped.

Amen. I noticed something else unusual while visiting Texas: people there seem to do this strange thing where they actually PAY for their goods BEFORE leaving the store. Imagine that! It's like they're actually enforcing the law over there or something.

PAY for goods! Gasp!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I returned home from visiting family in Texas for about a week. It was so nice to have a stretch of time when I could exit my car without having to first look around for potential carjackers.

I took am thinking of how we can get away as much as possible for this very reason. The sad thing is a lot of the people our feeble far left politicians represent don't have the resources to do that. They're trapped.

Amen. I noticed something else unusual while visiting Texas: people there seem to do this strange thing where they actually PAY for their goods BEFORE leaving the store. Imagine that! It's like they're actually enforcing the law over there or something.

Anonymous wrote:I returned home from visiting family in Texas for about a week. It was so nice to have a stretch of time when I could exit my car without having to first look around for potential carjackers.

I took am thinking of how we can get away as much as possible for this very reason. The sad thing is a lot of the people our feeble far left politicians represent don't have the resources to do that. They're trapped.

I returned home from visiting family in Texas for about a week. It was so nice to have a stretch of time when I could exit my car without having to first look around for potential carjackers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think many DC residents correctly perceive that this entire region is a cesspool, so moving to the suburbs isn't really a great solution. But for anyone whose job and personal life allows them to escape the DC area entirely, that really is the best solution.

My family had already been in the D.C. area for three generations by the time I was born, so I have no interest in "escaping" to some other place just because some people here don't like it.

I'm also from DC and have developed an allergy to this city full of miserable people who say things like youre gonna get got and snitches get stitches . And then all the savior liberals saying people just can't help the horrible things they do. What a place!

Anonymous wrote:I think many DC residents correctly perceive that this entire region is a cesspool, so moving to the suburbs isn't really a great solution. But for anyone whose job and personal life allows them to escape the DC area entirely, that really is the best solution.

My family had already been in the D.C. area for three generations by the time I was born, so I have no interest in "escaping" to some other place just because some people here don't like it.

Anonymous wrote:If you’re so unhappy here, move. But some of us like it here and believe the crime will diminish.

At least you believe it will diminish and aren’t trying to claim a crime wave like we haven’t seen in 20+ years isn’t happening.