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Actually DC is quite spacious compared to SF, a city where buildings feel on top of each other and far more crowded than DC, a place with broad boulevards and lots of open space. Im actually jealous of how uncongested downtown DC feels.
Not really. On the whole, the streets in DC are not any wider than the streets in San Francisco.
Pennsylvania, Constitution and Independence are wide, but so is the Champs Elysee. The view along Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the Capitol may be the most iconic and breathtaking our country has to offer.
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And that makes SFs win over DC even more impressive when it comes to feeling like and actually being a hub of not just employment, but also a major hub of shopping, entertainment and nightlife.
Downtown DC is definitely my least favorite part of the city. It's not spaced like Center City where you have brownstones within throwing distance of skyscrapers. It's improving, but still rather sterile feeling, particularly in the areas with huge government buildings that are prohibited from having retail.
No offense, but these pics demonstrate quite succinctly that locations at the outskirts of downtown SF are similar to locations in the heart of downtown DC as far as density and development---I knew that already. btw.
Pennsylvania, Constitution and Independence are wide, but so is the Champs Elysee. The view along Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the Capitol may be the most iconic and breathtaking our country has to offer.
Downtown DC is definitely my least favorite part of the city. It's not spaced like Center City where you have brownstones within throwing distance of skyscrapers. It's improving, but still rather sterile feeling, particularly in the areas with huge government buildings that are prohibited from having retail.
I am gonna have to disagree. San Francisco's streets are generally more compact than DC's streets.
If I was a cowboy then DC would be my urban dream. Those wide streets, almost empty wide sidewalks, the old Spanish west stucco resembling architecture at twilight. All I need is a horse and some cowboy boots and its yeehaw down the streets of downtown DC. LOL
You just never get elbow room like that in San Francisco and same can be said of the DC area compared to the bay.
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I am gonna have to disagree. San Francisco's streets are generally more compact than DC's streets.
I disagree. DC has some wide avenues usually state names. The streets names like F, G, H, I, L, M, N, P, etc..... are smaller. K street is an exception. Up farther into the neighborhoods, the streets are small. Georgetown and Capitol Hill for example have really small streets.
If I was a cowboy then DC would be my urban dream. Those wide streets, almost empty wide sidewalks, the old west stucco resembling architecture at twilight. All I need is a horse and some cowboy boots and its yeehaw down the streets of downtown DC. LOL
You just never get elbow room like that in San Francisco and same can be said of the DC area compared to the bay.
There is a lot of elbow and leg room on the BART. LOL
DC and SF are close enough in terms of urbanity. It's pretty much NYC above all else and then a fairly clustered group with Boston, Chicago, DC, Philly, and SF (alphabetical order) and then LA as a strange outlier that's either between NYC and those or somewhere among those depending on how you weight things.
There is a lot of elbow and leg room on the BART. LOL
Yes, it's true that the BART uses a special gauge that is significantly wider than standard gauge so the train cars have significantly wider interiors than most rapid transit train cars in the US including the DC Metro. I did not know you were such a rail aficionado! Let us exchange numbers!
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