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I've lived here since '82, and this city is the only home I know. However, I've maintained this nagging, unwavering urge to move on to a more simplistic, close-knit, and non-transient community. Essentially, what I'm looking for is a town that resembles the D.C. of the 70s and early 80s.
I've lived here since '82, and this city is the only home I know. However, I've maintained this nagging, unwavering urge to move on to a more simplistic, close-knit, and non-transient community. Essentially, what I'm looking for is a town that resembles the D.C. of the 70s and early 80s.
I've lived here since '82, and this city is the only home I know. However, I've maintained this nagging, unwavering urge to move on to a more simplistic, close-knit, and non-transient community. Essentially, what I'm looking for is a town that resembles the D.C. of the 70s and early 80s.
I moved to DC in 2000 b/c I wanted to. I had visited several times and I thought it seemed like a neat city. I had a couple of job offers in other cities but I chose DC. I liked that it was a big city with a lot going on but the lower buildings gives it a less "concrete jungle" feel than some other places like NYC, Chicago, Philly, etc.
I lived in the District for five years and really enjoyed it. I actually ended up moving away from DC for a job...
I've lived here since '82, and this city is the only home I know. However, I've maintained this nagging, unwavering urge to move on to a more simplistic, close-knit, and non-transient community. Essentially, what I'm looking for is a town that resembles the D.C. of the 70s and early 80s.
Apart from the fact that it's much bigger than DC, I'd say Philadelphia might be an option. Much more tightly knit than DC, but with plenty of the grit of DC circa 1979.
DC definitely isn't a romantic city people aspire to be like Paris or New York. I've found many people who come here for work initially end up doing what they can to stay because - in the end - life is pretty good here.
Even coming here for work isn't really a bad thing. I mean, there's a lot of career paths that only exist in DC in our country so it's not like all these people are trudging here as a last resort because they couldn't get hired at the local Jiffy Lube (some certainly are here because of the recession). Many of the people you're complaining about in thread after thread are here because they spent years in school learning about whatever they care about and, perhaps misguidedly, see DC as the best place to do something with it.
This forum has a rotation of people come through who are miserable in their own lives and conclude that, rather than taking responsibility for it, it must be the fault of the 5 million other people in the region and the combination of buildings, roads, and trains they live in.
I've lived here since '82, and this city is the only home I know. However, I've maintained this nagging, unwavering urge to move on to a more simplistic, close-knit, and non-transient community. Essentially, what I'm looking for is a town that resembles the D.C. of the 70s and early 80s.
If you look at the job market on the East, South East Coast.
I am from Texas, there isn't much going on there. The South East is worst. Washington DC is the southern most place where is almost affordable and there is stuff going on.
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