Anonymous wrote:As soon as we found out I was pregnant, we started looking in DC. We had been renting in Alexandria and decided once we were pregnant we would buy.

This is not to be a VA bashing, but for us - we couldn't stand the thought of raising our child in VA. We were renting in VA, because it was cheap. We just felt like it was so boring. Everyone was exactly the same. There was no diversity (color, SES, international families, anything...) We had to drive everywhere and just didn't like it.

We looked in DC and felt it fit our lives and our lifestyle better. We've never looked back.

I don't live in VA, but this is not true. VA might be segregated, and if you're being honest, you'll realize that DC is, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Ghetto government. THAT was funny. I noticed that too, when I lived there.

Yep DC definitely has a ghetto government full of crooks, cronyism, bribes, you name it. I hate how no one can ever seem to clean it up.

Gov McDonnell *cough cough*

Nothing compared to DC

By ghetto government, I mean the way they run the place... not their race.

What do you mean 1990s? Didn't you see Colbert King's Saturday OpEd colbert-king-dcs-epidemic-of-guilt/2013/09/13/bf7fb10c-1bfd-11e3-82ef-a059e54c49d0_story.html

Name one local government, other than Prince George's, which has had as much entrenched corruption and cronyism, as DC. I have lived in DC for 20 years and it never, ever gets any better (except for a brief period under Tony Williams, but even then, that was the era of WTU kleptomaniac president Bullock and DC Office of Tax & Revenue Grand Thief Extraordinnaire Harriet Walters. There is a mentality among DC politicians and bureaucrats--most but not all of whom are AA (I'm thinking about YOU, Jim Graham, or that Office of Property Management Guy who took bribes from Doug Jemal)---that somehow stealing and corruption are only harming "the Man"---when the reality is that when Harry Thomas siphons funds meant for youth programs, the people being hurt the most are poor black kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Ghetto government. THAT was funny. I noticed that too, when I lived there.

Yep DC definitely has a ghetto government full of crooks, cronyism, bribes, you name it. I hate how no one can ever seem to clean it up.

GTFOH. Va politics is no better. It is just as susceptible to corruption.

But see, it's white corruption. When a white person is a crook or takes a bribe, it's just politics.

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Anonymous wrote:Ghetto government. THAT was funny. I noticed that too, when I lived there.

Yep DC definitely has a ghetto government full of crooks, cronyism, bribes, you name it. I hate how no one can ever seem to clean it up.

1990 is calling, it wants your comment back.

As soon as we found out I was pregnant, we started looking in DC. We had been renting in Alexandria and decided once we were pregnant we would buy.

This is not to be a VA bashing, but for us - we couldn't stand the thought of raising our child in VA. We were renting in VA, because it was cheap. We just felt like it was so boring. Everyone was exactly the same. There was no diversity (color, SES, international families, anything...) We had to drive everywhere and just didn't like it.

We looked in DC and felt it fit our lives and our lifestyle better. We've never looked back.

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Anonymous wrote:Ghetto government. THAT was funny. I noticed that too, when I lived there.

Yep DC definitely has a ghetto government full of crooks, cronyism, bribes, you name it. I hate how no one can ever seem to clean it up.

GTFOH. Va politics is no better. It is just as susceptible to corruption.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, remember most of these people in VA like the above posters are jaded because they can't afford to live "the life" in DC. There are plenty of areas with 2 car garages and tons of parking in the District...if you can afford it. So you're going to get a lot of snarky responses from GS-10s that clog up the bridges every morning.

I have no dog in this fight, but why be so rude?

Why be so rude? I am not the poster, but this is what is rude: The main reason we wouldn't return to DC is the lack of parking and the ghetto government/higher taxes. We equate the DC government to slum landlords who seek just to make a profit. Ghetto government is rude and racist. While I would not have made the GS-10s' comment, it is snarky.

I really considered it because I love the city, but 1- my ex was opposed to the idea, 2- I couldn't afford a decent place AND private school, and 3- the idea of having to figure out the charter school system was kind of exhausting. So we bought in North Arlington instead, and I just get into DC every chance I get.

My 15-year plan is to sell and move back to DC when my kid goes off to college.

Anonymous wrote:OP, remember most of these people in VA like the above posters are jaded because they can't afford to live "the life" in DC. There are plenty of areas with 2 car garages and tons of parking in the District...if you can afford it. So you're going to get a lot of snarky responses from GS-10s that clog up the bridges every morning.

The 10s are hanging out in Stafford and Urbana.

Anonymous wrote:Great falls is cheaper than DC. Plus add tuition and you new money types would have to sell your Escalades. 10yr old Volvos baby!

http://franklymls.com/FX8120161


VS

http://franklymls.com/DC8180968

I don't think two listings will prove your point, particularly when the Great Falls house is more expensive than the DC property.

We are in Arlington and have thought about it. We haven't been super happy with our public school, but I don't think we're quite up for private school. $30k/kid/yr is just so much money.

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Anonymous wrote:Ghetto government. THAT was funny. I noticed that too, when I lived there.

Yep DC definitely has a ghetto government full of crooks, cronyism, bribes, you name it. I hate how no one can ever seem to clean it up.

Gov McDonnell *cough cough*

Anonymous wrote:Ghetto government. THAT was funny. I noticed that too, when I lived there.

Yep DC definitely has a ghetto government full of crooks, cronyism, bribes, you name it. I hate how no one can ever seem to clean it up.