Anonymous
07/24/2025 06:38
Subject: Are The Unemployed Going to Start leaving the DMV?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There are 387 metropolitan areas in the USA. The average unemployment rate in them is 4.0.
The current unemployment rate in the greater DMV is 3.6, tied for 153rd with 22 others including Pittsburgh and Charlotte.
Large metro areas with higher unemployment rates than the DMV include NYC, Philadelphia,
San Francisco, San Diego, and Chicago among others.
While the greater DMV is typically at or near the very low end of unemployment rates among large metro areas, the sky hasn’t fallen just yet.
Yes, the DOGE firings and the fallout are real, but folks on this website are disproportionately experiencing it because of who you are and who you associate with. You are not a random sample of the DMV.
The DOGE firings don't register yet because technically people are still employed until September. Call me back then.
Only people who took DRP. But many were straight up laid off.
Anonymous
07/24/2025 01:41
Subject: Are The Unemployed Going to Start leaving the DMV?
DC neighbor is leaving for overseas. Wife was Doged and got a new job in Europe. husband can work from there. Plan to rent out their house (presumably using a mgmt company).
Anonymous
07/24/2025 01:22
Subject: Are The Unemployed Going to Start leaving the DMV?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:In my close friend group, two just sold their homes and are leaving the country. Many unemployed just on my street.
Well that’s unusual and weird.
Depends on the neighborhood and street. Feds and NGO types tend to cluster together because not many neighborhoods offer the commute they need and are reasonably priced.
Several are leaving/making plans to leave in my Bethesda neighborhood. Fired Feds or Fed adjacents from the health agencies (NIH, FDA), EPA and USAID. Doesn’t make sense to stay in an expensive area without the career.
Anonymous
07/23/2025 21:03
Subject: Are The Unemployed Going to Start leaving the DMV?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We have a lot of homes for sale in our neighborhood. Strange to see after decades of a seller’s market. Our area is in a slow motion recession- unemployment is up already but going to go much higher; inventory is higher already with more to come. All for stupid political power plays.
no, try:
All of us who couldn't afford to live where we wanted are going to get a chance and Trump is going to force the interest rates lower and we're going to get vouchers to send our kids to private!
NO seriously, the DC real estate market has been stupid for a long time, and in the neighborhoods where I want to buy it is consistently $100k more than I want to pay... basically for as long as I've lived here. I might actually catch up to it now!
Anonymous
07/23/2025 21:01
Subject: Are The Unemployed Going to Start leaving the DMV?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We have a lot of homes for sale in our neighborhood. Strange to see after decades of a seller’s market. Our area is in a slow motion recession- unemployment is up already but going to go much higher; inventory is higher already with more to come. All for stupid political power plays.
no, try:
All of us who couldn't afford to live where we wanted are going to get a chance and Trump is going to force the interest rates lower and we're going to get vouchers to send our kids to private!
Anonymous
07/23/2025 20:42
Subject: Are The Unemployed Going to Start leaving the DMV?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We have a lot of homes for sale in our neighborhood. Strange to see after decades of a seller’s market. Our area is in a slow motion recession- unemployment is up already but going to go much higher; inventory is higher already with more to come. All for stupid political power plays.
no, try:
All of us who couldn't afford to live where we wanted are going to get a chance and Trump is going to force the interest rates lower and we're going to get vouchers to send our kids to private!
Anonymous
07/23/2025 20:38
Subject: Are The Unemployed Going to Start leaving the DMV?
Anonymous wrote:We have a lot of homes for sale in our neighborhood. Strange to see after decades of a seller’s market. Our area is in a slow motion recession- unemployment is up already but going to go much higher; inventory is higher already with more to come. All for stupid political power plays.
Anonymous
07/23/2025 20:25
Subject: Are The Unemployed Going to Start leaving the DMV?
We have a lot of homes for sale in our neighborhood. Strange to see after decades of a seller’s market. Our area is in a slow motion recession- unemployment is up already but going to go much higher; inventory is higher already with more to come. All for stupid political power plays.
Anonymous
07/23/2025 20:19
Subject: Are The Unemployed Going to Start leaving the DMV?
We also need to consider if the retired feds stay or move. I feel like many agencies got a ton of people to retire instead of RIFed/forked that will be looking for other work.
Anonymous
07/23/2025 20:05
Subject: Are The Unemployed Going to Start leaving the DMV?
The feds and cut people all live in pg
Anonymous
07/23/2025 14:21
Subject: Are The Unemployed Going to Start leaving the DMV?
Anonymous wrote:There are 387 metropolitan areas in the USA. The average unemployment rate in them is 4.0.
The current unemployment rate in the greater DMV is 3.6, tied for 153rd with 22 others including Pittsburgh and Charlotte.
Large metro areas with higher unemployment rates than the DMV include NYC, Philadelphia,
San Francisco, San Diego, and Chicago among others.
While the greater DMV is typically at or near the very low end of unemployment rates among large metro areas, the sky hasn’t fallen just yet.
Yes, the DOGE firings and the fallout are real, but folks on this website are disproportionately experiencing it because of who you are and who you associate with. You are not a random sample of the DMV.
The DOGE firings don't register yet because technically people are still employed until September. Call me back then.
Anonymous
07/23/2025 14:20
Subject: Are The Unemployed Going to Start leaving the DMV?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:In my close friend group, two just sold their homes and are leaving the country. Many unemployed just on my street.
Well that’s unusual and weird.
Depends on the neighborhood and street. Feds and NGO types tend to cluster together because not many neighborhoods offer the commute they need and are reasonably priced.
Anonymous
07/23/2025 14:10
Subject: Are The Unemployed Going to Start leaving the DMV?
Anonymous wrote:There are 387 metropolitan areas in the USA. The average unemployment rate in them is 4.0.
The current unemployment rate in the greater DMV is 3.6, tied for 153rd with 22 others including Pittsburgh and Charlotte.
Large metro areas with higher unemployment rates than the DMV include NYC, Philadelphia,
San Francisco, San Diego, and Chicago among others.
While the greater DMV is typically at or near the very low end of unemployment rates among large metro areas, the sky hasn’t fallen just yet.
Yes, the DOGE firings and the fallout are real, but folks on this website are disproportionately experiencing it because of who you are and who you associate with. You are not a random sample of the DMV.
A better explanation: the way the DOGE cuts have been happening means a lot of people have yet to file for unemployment.
Anonymous
07/23/2025 14:08
Subject: Are The Unemployed Going to Start leaving the DMV?
Anonymous wrote:There are 387 metropolitan areas in the USA. The average unemployment rate in them is 4.0.
The current unemployment rate in the greater DMV is 3.6, tied for 153rd with 22 others including Pittsburgh and Charlotte.
Large metro areas with higher unemployment rates than the DMV include NYC, Philadelphia,
San Francisco, San Diego, and Chicago among others.
While the greater DMV is typically at or near the very low end of unemployment rates among large metro areas, the sky hasn’t fallen just yet.
Yes, the DOGE firings and the fallout are real, but folks on this website are disproportionately experiencing it because of who you are and who you associate with. You are not a random sample of the DMV.
How can you speak this confidently when you are so ill-informed?
All the people who took the fork are on paid administrative leave. We aren’t showing up in unemployment rates until October.
Tone who were RIFed would show up as unemployed, but may be waiting to apply for unemployment because of their severance package.
Anonymous
07/23/2025 11:09
Subject: Are The Unemployed Going to Start leaving the DMV?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The unemployed feds and contractors were living in Manassas, Fredericksburg, Oxon Hill, etc. This board won't even notice those vacancies.
I know 3 feds in NW DC who have lost their jobs or expect to shortly, and 1 "expects to be cut" in NE DC. It's widespread.
Again, you’re not a random sample. See previous post. It may be “widespread” in your circle, but from a metropolitan area standpoint not so much.
The ratio of fed to non fed is lower in DC than in the far out suburbs. For example, Stafford County is basically just houses full of retired and active military, Feds and Contractors. There is no other industry there.