New people affiliated with the Administration and their families have moved into town.

No, everybody is not gone

Everybody is gone. That’s why there are no more traffic jams in the area.

I have a married couple friends without kids, both government workers who haven't been fired yet but think they will be, who are preparing to put their house on the market and leave.

Anonymous wrote:We’re probably leaving this summer to move our family to Europe. The plan is to rent out our house for a couple years and then figure things out.

We aren’t feds and we’re currently employed, but I see the writing on the wall. I don’t imagine there is a good future for my kids in the USA, especially DC at this time. I recognize how privileged we are to be able to do this, and honestly I don’t want to move my family overseas but I think it’s for the best.

This is my boycott of the US. I’m absolutely disgusted by what’s happening and I don’t want my tax dollars to support it.

Have you considered the disruptive social impact on your kids and the disruption of their education?

There have been a bunch of UHauls on my D.C. block lately.

Anonymous wrote:We’re probably leaving this summer to move our family to Europe. The plan is to rent out our house for a couple years and then figure things out.

We aren’t feds and we’re currently employed, but I see the writing on the wall. I don’t imagine there is a good future for my kids in the USA, especially DC at this time. I recognize how privileged we are to be able to do this, and honestly I don’t want to move my family overseas but I think it’s for the best.

This is my boycott of the US. I’m absolutely disgusted by what’s happening and I don’t want my tax dollars to support it.

Your tax dollars will support it regardless of where you live. Sorry.

I don't know if it really counts, but I have an aunt and uncle who moved last month to their vacation home in Cyprus. They are DC natives who both retired in 2024. They decided they didn't want to be around for the Trump 2.0 circus, so they applied to move shortly after the election and were approved.

I have several friends who were let go by Musk. None are leaving the area. Some were rehired and others were told to come back after court stays. Others are job hunting and from what I'm hearing, they're having good results. Seems like others in this area are really eager to take care of those who lost their positions because of Musk.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re probably leaving this summer to move our family to Europe. The plan is to rent out our house for a couple years and then figure things out.

We aren’t feds and we’re currently employed, but I see the writing on the wall. I don’t imagine there is a good future for my kids in the USA, especially DC at this time. I recognize how privileged we are to be able to do this, and honestly I don’t want to move my family overseas but I think it’s for the best.

This is my boycott of the US. I’m absolutely disgusted by what’s happening and I don’t want my tax dollars to support it.

Do you think their future will be any better in Europe? No snark, honestly asking if you believe it will be and why? If you read news and have family friends or any work or social affiliations in Europe, you will hear the disappointments in Europe and want to move out, just as you are thinking to move from US of A.

I am very concerned about the administration’s anti-female, anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-gay, anti-poor, anti-democratic … stances. I honestly don’t know where the better place to be is, but for now I’ll place my bets on the EU versus the US.

If I’m wrong, we’ll come back. We are lucky to have these options—for now anyway.

Have you lived there? Or any other country? You prob haven't if you think the anti-xyz situations are better elsewhere. The U.S. is becoming "rest of the world."

There’s a lot of variety in the “rest of the world”. There are several countries that are far more advanced than here in many regards. This is no longer a free or fair country. Someone needs to rewrite the national anthem.

In "many regards"?? Care to share what you think those many are? If you are same poster as the one listing the anti-X that they see in U.S., do share with readers where that does not exist in the world? You must be a male with pale pigment skin.

No, I’m not that poster. I am male, but not pale pigment skin. Most European countries are more socially and culturally advanced, but that’s to be expected given the US is a much younger country. At this point many of them are more democratic and freer than here. They are not attempting to apply authoritarian rule, diminish their legal systems, taint their electoral systems etc. Those gaps will grow now that the US is regressing.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, a single person, aged 52, worked for US AID, moving back home with her parents

The goal of every person in the D.C. area is to move back home someday.

This is not true. I'm so tired of miserable suburbanites assuming the rest of us are as unhappy as them.

I live in the city with elementary age kids and nobody I know is actively trying to leave. Some are worried about employment, but everyone wants to try to stay. Our quality of life is among the highest in the world and we know it.

Some parts of DC are like places in DC suburbs.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re probably leaving this summer to move our family to Europe. The plan is to rent out our house for a couple years and then figure things out.

We aren’t feds and we’re currently employed, but I see the writing on the wall. I don’t imagine there is a good future for my kids in the USA, especially DC at this time. I recognize how privileged we are to be able to do this, and honestly I don’t want to move my family overseas but I think it’s for the best.

This is my boycott of the US. I’m absolutely disgusted by what’s happening and I don’t want my tax dollars to support it.

Do you think their future will be any better in Europe? No snark, honestly asking if you believe it will be and why? If you read news and have family friends or any work or social affiliations in Europe, you will hear the disappointments in Europe and want to move out, just as you are thinking to move from US of A.

I am very concerned about the administration’s anti-female, anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-gay, anti-poor, anti-democratic … stances. I honestly don’t know where the better place to be is, but for now I’ll place my bets on the EU versus the US.

If I’m wrong, we’ll come back. We are lucky to have these options—for now anyway.

Have you lived there? Or any other country? You prob haven't if you think the anti-xyz situations are better elsewhere. The U.S. is becoming "rest of the world."

There’s a lot of variety in the “rest of the world”. There are several countries that are far more advanced than here in many regards. This is no longer a free or fair country. Someone needs to rewrite the national anthem.

In "many regards"?? Care to share what you think those many are? If you are same poster as the one listing the anti-X that they see in U.S., do share with readers where that does not exist in the world? You must be a male with pale pigment skin.

Anonymous wrote:Here is the official memo:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25545392/omb-opm-memo.pdf

Phase II plans are due on April 14th (it’s right in the memo. Read it).

Large RIFs will begin soon after.

It’s about to get much, much worse.

Everyone is about to get fired.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, a single person, aged 52, worked for US AID, moving back home with her parents

The goal of every person in the D.C. area is to move back home someday.

This is not true. I'm so tired of miserable suburbanites assuming the rest of us are as unhappy as them.

I live in the city with elementary age kids and nobody I know is actively trying to leave. Some are worried about employment, but everyone wants to try to stay. Our quality of life is among the highest in the world and we know it.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re probably leaving this summer to move our family to Europe. The plan is to rent out our house for a couple years and then figure things out.

We aren’t feds and we’re currently employed, but I see the writing on the wall. I don’t imagine there is a good future for my kids in the USA, especially DC at this time. I recognize how privileged we are to be able to do this, and honestly I don’t want to move my family overseas but I think it’s for the best.

This is my boycott of the US. I’m absolutely disgusted by what’s happening and I don’t want my tax dollars to support it.

Do you think their future will be any better in Europe? No snark, honestly asking if you believe it will be and why? If you read news and have family friends or any work or social affiliations in Europe, you will hear the disappointments in Europe and want to move out, just as you are thinking to move from US of A.

I am very concerned about the administration’s anti-female, anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-gay, anti-poor, anti-democratic … stances. I honestly don’t know where the better place to be is, but for now I’ll place my bets on the EU versus the US.

If I’m wrong, we’ll come back. We are lucky to have these options—for now anyway.

Have you lived there? Or any other country? You prob haven't if you think the anti-xyz situations are better elsewhere. The U.S. is becoming "rest of the world."

There’s a lot of variety in the “rest of the world”. There are several countries that are far more advanced than here in many regards. This is no longer a free or fair country. Someone needs to rewrite the national anthem.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re probably leaving this summer to move our family to Europe. The plan is to rent out our house for a couple years and then figure things out.

We aren’t feds and we’re currently employed, but I see the writing on the wall. I don’t imagine there is a good future for my kids in the USA, especially DC at this time. I recognize how privileged we are to be able to do this, and honestly I don’t want to move my family overseas but I think it’s for the best.

This is my boycott of the US. I’m absolutely disgusted by what’s happening and I don’t want my tax dollars to support it.

Do you think their future will be any better in Europe? No snark, honestly asking if you believe it will be and why? If you read news and have family friends or any work or social affiliations in Europe, you will hear the disappointments in Europe and want to move out, just as you are thinking to move from US of A.

I am very concerned about the administration’s anti-female, anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-gay, anti-poor, anti-democratic … stances. I honestly don’t know where the better place to be is, but for now I’ll place my bets on the EU versus the US.

If I’m wrong, we’ll come back. We are lucky to have these options—for now anyway.

Have you lived there? Or any other country? You prob haven't if you think the anti-xyz situations are better elsewhere. The U.S. is becoming "rest of the world."