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SF is more beautiful. Don't mind the homeless drug addicts.
DC is more livable for the average professional. It is too expensive for the average person without a professional job, but not as insanely-overpriced as SF where even a professional career wouldn't earn you a high enough salary to live well there, unless your job is in the tech industry and you get paid a fortune for your salary.
I prefer the people and nightlife in DC. The only thing SF has better is restaurants and better shopping. I like going to Tyson's Corner so I don't mind.
DC is far wealthier and far more educated on average than SF and we have much cheaper and nicer more modern housing. IMO, the average San Francisco resident is even poorer than the below average resident of Houston. The Govt made a new poverty measure that adjusts for COL, and home ownership, etc and now the West is considered the poorest region of the USA. Even worse than the South. My close friend lives in San Francisco and earns $95k. I live in DC and earn $85k and I'm definitely wealthier and have nicer things than him.
SF is also a very rough city. We also don't have really bad slums like your find in SF (Oakland). And the city is a more pleasant place vs the rat and homeless infested SF.
If you're middle income and want to live a cushy life, move to Houston, if you want to live an Upper Middle Class life with stability an a great level of comfort then move here to DC. If you're rich and can afford anything then move to NYC or Los Angeles.
I don't get the appeal of SF.
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I prefer the people and nightlife in DC. The only thing SF has better is restaurants and better shopping. I like going to Tyson's Corner so I don't mind.
DC is far wealthier and far more educated on average than SF and we have much cheaper and nicer more modern housing. IMO, the average San Francisco resident is even poorer than the below average resident of Houston. The Govt made a new poverty measure that adjusts for COL, and home ownership, etc and now the West is considered the poorest region of the USA. Even worse than the South. My close friend lives in San Francisco and earns $95k. I live in DC and earn $85k and I'm definitely wealthier and have nicer things than him.
SF is also a very rough city. We also don't have really bad slums like your find in SF (Oakland). And the city is a more pleasant place vs the rat and homeless infested SF.
If you're middle income and want to live a cushy life, move to Houston, if you want to live an Upper Middle Class life with stability an a great level of comfort then move here to DC. If you're rich and can afford anything then move to NYC or Los Angeles.
I don't get the appeal of SF.
I have some friends here moved from northern Virginia suburban DC, they hated it. Their opinion on living there; overpriced, terrible traffic, terrible weather, rude people, clueless professionals collecting checks. They made a fortune off of them though.
SF is also a very rough city. We also don't have really bad slums like your find in SF (Oakland). And the city is a more pleasant place vs the rat and homeless infested SF.
I prefer the people and nightlife in DC. The only thing SF has better is restaurants and better shopping. I like going to Tyson's Corner so I don't mind.
DC is far wealthier and far more educated on average than SF and we have much cheaper and nicer more modern housing. IMO, the average San Francisco resident is even poorer than the below average resident of Houston. The Govt made a new poverty measure that adjusts for COL, and home ownership, etc and now the West is considered the poorest region of the USA. Even worse than the South. My close friend lives in San Francisco and earns $95k. I live in DC and earn $85k and I'm definitely wealthier and have nicer things than him.
SF is also a very rough city. We also don't have really bad slums like your find in SF (Oakland). And the city is a more pleasant place vs the rat and homeless infested SF.
If you're middle income and want to live a cushy life, move to Houston, if you want to live an Upper Middle Class life with stability an a great level of comfort then move here to DC. If you're rich and can afford anything then move to NYC or Los Angeles.
I don't get the appeal of SF.
So what you're trying to say is you've never been to San Fran and don't really know anything about the city?
I prefer the people and nightlife in DC. The only thing SF has better is restaurants and better shopping. I like going to Tyson's Corner so I don't mind.
DC is far wealthier and far more educated on average than SF and we have much cheaper and nicer more modern housing. IMO, the average San Francisco resident is even poorer than the below average resident of Houston. The Govt made a new poverty measure that adjusts for COL, and home ownership, etc and now the West is considered the poorest region of the USA. Even worse than the South. My close friend lives in San Francisco and earns $95k. I live in DC and earn $85k and I'm definitely wealthier and have nicer things than him.
SF is also a very rough city. We also don't have really bad slums like your find in SF (Oakland). And the city is a more pleasant place vs the rat and homeless infested SF.
If you're middle income and want to live a cushy life, move to Houston, if you want to live an Upper Middle Class life with stability an a great level of comfort then move here to DC. If you're rich and can afford anything then move to NYC or Los Angeles.
I don't get the appeal of SF.
More educated? Based on what? Where are you getting this info from?
BTW Oakland isn't part of SF. It's not all slums either. Perhaps you should actually visit the entire Bay Area which is a far more desirable place to live than the DC metro area before you spout off your opinions as truth. I've lived in both for quite some time. Have you?
D.C. is such a major hub, a really beautiful capital. Not sure how to measure "better", but its presence is definitely more significant than SF.
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