Anonymous
Post 03/04/2025 00:50     Subject: Trump layoffs of fed workers will fundamentally change DC
I was thinking NOVA will feel it from the Hispanic population shrinkage and federal workers.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2025 00:49     Subject: Re:Trump layoffs of fed workers will fundamentally change DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is going to shrink our population by quite a bit, I bet.



“I think the Washington region has just become less attractive,” said Lyles Carr, a longtime leader of a top local headhunting firm. “Why stay in the high-cost Washington area if your job is less secure and your public service motivation is gone? If I’m going to move to the commercial sector, why don’t I move to Nashville or Cincinnati or somewhere lower cost?”


It'll shrink the white rich and black rich populations which leaves...
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2025 00:44     Subject: Trump layoffs of fed workers will fundamentally change DC
Anonymous wrote:All of DC will be okay. DC will survive.


https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1261122.page

Thread in RE forum on future of DC and brainstorming potential scenarios. Since it's so chaotic now and none of us can predict, we can only brainstorm. Positive and negative scenarios.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 21:25     Subject: Trump layoffs of fed workers will fundamentally change DC
All of DC will be okay. DC will survive.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 20:52     Subject: Re:Trump layoffs of fed workers will fundamentally change DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC is headed for a deep, dark recession. The city is predicting 40,000 will lose their jobs from Trump layoffs.


What will deep dark recession in DC look like?


I bet the city will get substantially smaller. People will just leave. Widespread business closures will follow. Get ready for a lot more empty storefronts.


In which areas? Which areas of DC will still be ok?
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 20:52     Subject: Re:Trump layoffs of fed workers will fundamentally change DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I dont think the average person grasps how significant this is going to be. It's going to be really, really terrible.



And it's all being done deliberately. We are in a very different world than we were six weeks ago. It's just beginning. Destroying the DMV is a policy goal for this administration.


What do you think is going to happen?
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 17:27     Subject: Trump layoffs of fed workers will fundamentally change DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:At a minimum, DC needs to get serious about combatting crime. It’s just about the only thing it can control. We can’t afford to play around with restorative justice when the economy is also getting gutted.


Crime is down significantly, read up.


Crime is down significantly, yes, from the exorbitant level it was at recently with the most homicides and carjackings in recent history. Yes, indeed, it's come down from "very high" to "high", so amazing. Talk like this is why DC's ability to self-govern is doubted. Have you removed the "all under 26-year-olds shall have the same protections as juveniles"-rule yet?
Is hijacking a car still treated as "not a real crime"? Then, take a seat.


If teachers are hit or kicked, are they actually suspended? Nope.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 16:37     Subject: Re:Trump layoffs of fed workers will fundamentally change DC
Anonymous wrote:I dont think the average person grasps how significant this is going to be. It's going to be really, really terrible.



And it's all being done deliberately. We are in a very different world than we were six weeks ago. It's just beginning. Destroying the DMV is a policy goal for this administration.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 16:21     Subject: Re:Trump layoffs of fed workers will fundamentally change DC
I dont think the average person grasps how significant this is going to be. It's going to be really, really terrible.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 16:17     Subject: Re:Trump layoffs of fed workers will fundamentally change DC
Anonymous wrote:DC is headed for a deep, dark recession. The city is predicting 40,000 will lose their jobs from Trump layoffs.


The DMV is going to lose a lot more. Virginia and Maryland are looking very scary right now.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 16:15     Subject: Re:Trump layoffs of fed workers will fundamentally change DC
Unemployment claims are up 25 percent in one week.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 16:13     Subject: Re:Trump layoffs of fed workers will fundamentally change DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC is headed for a deep, dark recession. The city is predicting 40,000 will lose their jobs from Trump layoffs.


What will deep dark recession in DC look like?


I bet the city will get substantially smaller. People will just leave. Widespread business closures will follow. Get ready for a lot more empty storefronts.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 15:56     Subject: Re:Trump layoffs of fed workers will fundamentally change DC
Anonymous wrote:DC is headed for a deep, dark recession. The city is predicting 40,000 will lose their jobs from Trump layoffs.


What will deep dark recession in DC look like?
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 15:16     Subject: Re:Trump layoffs of fed workers will fundamentally change DC
DC is headed for a deep, dark recession. The city is predicting 40,000 will lose their jobs from Trump layoffs.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 14:54     Subject: Trump layoffs of fed workers will fundamentally change DC
Anonymous wrote:DC crime is going to skyrocket now.


All these unemployed federal workers will still have to feed their families.

They won’t have any options soon and will all have to turn to street crime just to get by.


This wins the stupidest comment of the day. Laid off feds will find other jobs and will relocate out of the region to where the jobs are like it happens in localized recession markets. This is what people tend to do if unable to afford to live in a place unemployed. Those with pensions and those able to find other jobs in the region or remote will remain.