You said:
and you chastise me for being insulting?
Your insults are the typical lame DC fare that somehow manages to pass for witty. I hear this sort of thing most often from people whose only accomplishment in life is that they are from DC - but it is pretty standard fare all around.
These are the people I run into - one of the groups (wealthy, very comfortable in their skin, accomplished) I wish I could be like the other two groups are just full of annoying people with various chips on their shoulders. I’m annoyed by two of these groups and I look up to the other one.
Well, yeah…yanno, “raised in Arlington” which is in Virginia.
I said “DC area”, not DC proper.
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Depends on the suburbs. We’ve been very fortunate where we are (nearish Springfield) in that our streets have always been open within 24 hours, but I recognize that further-out or less-dense suburbs may not have the same experience.
Many aspects of DC life suck. The traffic is a significant issue. For someone looking to move to the area, try to get someplace that’s more walkable - in DC, in Arlington, similar areas on the Maryland side. As noted, closeness to Metro isn’t always a guarantee - I had to go into the city once recently when parts of the Blue Line were closed - and while there was an alternative route, it was horrifyingly crowded. The cost of living can be staggering - my mother’s house in PA sold for well under half what we paid for our house here, and it was much larger and on 1+ acre, whereas we have a postage stamp.
On the plus side: we were far less severely hit by recent recessions than other parts of the country. The weather overall is a compromise: it gets hot and miserable but not for as long or as much of the time as parts of Florida, and it gets cold and occasionally snowy but not as bad as parts further north.