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View Poll Results: San Francisco vs. D.C.
San Francisco 85 49.13%
Washington D.C. 88 50.87%
Voters: 173. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-02-2010, 05:25 PM
 
Location: USA
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I know there is a thread for this but there isnt a poll!
What city is more fun to live in? What city is better to live in?
Where would you prefer to live?
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Old 05-02-2010, 05:27 PM
 
Location: The City
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Tough call both great cities - Since I have already lived in DC went with SF. I have enjoyed all my visits immensly. But this is tough call
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Old 05-02-2010, 05:35 PM
 
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Washington D.C. is kinda ghetto to me. I'm just gonna go ahead and put that on the table. Past the White House and downtown, it's looks rundown and old and really yeesh.

San Francisco is is alot more lively and fun and has more to offer and has good food and cuisine and reasonable weather and infrastructure to look at. I just like SF better.
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Old 05-02-2010, 05:38 PM
 
Location: The City
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Washington D.C. is kinda ghetto to me. I'm just gonna go ahead and put that on the table. Past the White House and downtown, it's looks rundown and old and really yeesh.

San Francisco is is alot more lively and fun and has more to offer and has good food and cuisine and reasonable weather and infrastructure to look at. I just like SF better.

Really - in many ways I think SF has more rugged areas; esp downtonw but that didn't keep me from voting for it.

Yes DC has some bad neighborhoods but also has some of the best right inside the district

On the fun and lively - in general yes - that is what swayed my vote
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Old 05-02-2010, 05:41 PM
 
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Really - in many ways I think SF has more rugged areas; esp downtonw but that didn't keep me from voting for it.

Yes DC has some bad neighborhoods but also has some of the best right inside the district

On the fun and lively - in general yes - that is what swayed my vote
Yeah I know. Oakland, Richmond, and the like. But I would never go to those places so I wouldn't know about the crime that plagues them.
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Old 05-02-2010, 05:59 PM
 
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Yeah I know. Oakland, Richmond, and the like. But I would never go to those places so I wouldn't know about the crime that plagues them.
He was referring to bad neighborhoods within the city-limits of San Francisco.
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Old 05-02-2010, 06:35 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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I would have to pick San Francisco over DC.
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Old 05-02-2010, 06:38 PM
 
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I think both are great cities but I chose DC. Its closer to all the other cities along the Atlantic if I want to go to them
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Old 05-02-2010, 06:40 PM
 
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Both are great cities, but Washington DC swayed my vote because of its location and proximity to other major cities.
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Old 05-02-2010, 06:52 PM
 
Location: Rockville, MD
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Washington D.C. is kinda ghetto to me. I'm just gonna go ahead and put that on the table. Past the White House and downtown, it's looks rundown and old and really yeesh.
Yeesh is right. When was the last time you were in DC? Did you go to Dupont, Georgetown, Capitol Hill, Woodley Park, Logan Circle, Foggy Bottom, Glover Park, Columbia Heights, Mount Pleasant, Shaw or Adams-Morgan?

Of course DC, like all cities, has shoddy-looking areas. San Fran does as well. But to say that any area outside of downtown DC looks "rundown and really old" is just flat-out wrong.

To the question at hand, it's definitely a close call. DC and San Fran, along with Boston, are my favorite U.S. cities, so it's hard to pick one. I picked DC simply because I live here and know that I like it here, but given an opportunity to move west--well that'd be fine.
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