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I've lived here for about 19 1/2 months, and I can't say I'm fond of DC. The focus many people have on politics and the consuming desire to feel like they are important and "making a difference" is ridiculous.
And you're telling me people in Silicon Valley act like they're not saving the world with the junk they put out....ie. like Twitter??
I remember many years ago the phone company in NY was going to give out numbers to people in NYC a different area code than 212 and people were in a big uproar because if you leave a number with a 212 area code people will call back since they know its NY.
The key word in your statement is 'many', not 'all' or even 'most.'
I've lived here for about 19 1/2 months, and I can't say I'm fond of DC. The focus many people have on politics and the consuming desire to feel like they are important and "making a difference" is ridiculous.
I don't fault people for trying to make a difference. Perhaps newcomers' overly-optimistic idealism can become overbearing.
While I won't deny that there are people consumed by politics and agendas living here, and blowhards impressed with themselves ("hey hometown in Nebraska, look at me now, I'm an assistant to an assistant on the Hill!") - I have to say that in decades of living in the area I don't cross paths with many of them. I'm sure that certain entertainment venues (read: bars) tend to attract such people, but back in my bar-hopping days I could pretty much "read" a place quickly and decide not to hang out there.
In other cities, there might be a big emphasis on local sports teams, and if you're not into sports, you might feel annoyed by it. But you could find like-minded friends and not every hangout would be a sports bar.
At least sports bar people do not give you attitude. If you want to find arrogant 20-somethings by the boatload, just walk into any swanky bar in DC. Because they went to a top-flight university, they interned for some big shot US Senator and they lived abroad--they earned their attitude. I kid you not.
At least sports bar people do not give you attitude. If you want to find arrogant 20-somethings by the boatload, just walk into any swanky bar in DC. Because they went to a top-flight university, they interned for some big shot US Senator and they lived abroad--they earned their attitude. I kid you not.
Huh, we must frequent different places. My wife and I go out all of the time, and have never encountered that. Maybe you see it at the Hawk and Dove, or Mr. Henry's, but we don't hang out with the interns on Capitol Hill. Perhaps you should try some different neighborhoods.
At least sports bar people do not give you attitude. If you want to find arrogant 20-somethings by the boatload, just walk into any swanky bar in DC. Because they went to a top-flight university, they interned for some big shot US Senator and they lived abroad--they earned their attitude. I kid you not.
This seems to be a common theme with you. We should help you either get over your frustration with this sect of society or find a place where you'd be happy.
I've found people who seek the middle American dream - the sports bars, softball games on the weekend, barbeques, etc..., hate DC. I've just never known people with "normal" jobs to be comfortable there.
Some of my friends fit the description above (by far not all - most refuse to ever mention the schools they attended or their career in social settings, even the really good ones), and they're not bad people or even arrogant. They are just immersed in a reality in which the decisions they make actually do have an impact on thousands or millions of people, so they take their responsibilities very seriously. Maybe that's the attitude you sense. But I don't get why people have a problem with passionate people moving somewhere to maximize their effectiveness.
If you're passionate about health care or education or conservation or whatever on a broad policy-level scale, why wouldn't you try to work in DC? Why wouldn't you go to the bsst schools you could? Why should people hold that against you?
I've lived here for about 19 1/2 months, and I can't say I'm fond of DC. The focus many people have on politics and the consuming desire to feel like they are important and "making a difference" is ridiculous.
I agree, except that happens in a lot of places that aren't specific to D.C, while being focused on politicians the the link in D.C. may not be everybody's thing, I haven't really known that to be in so much a negative rather than different in that particular perspective.
Yes, I also hate it here. I have moved here to be with my fiance. I'm sure there are lots of interesting things going on but for me it feels like the most dull place on planet earth. I am not interested in American politics or chasing dollar bills at all. I am trying to make the most of it but the day we leave this place will be glorious.
Many people are. It's what attracts the best and brightest here.
brightest? Haha! They are just nerdy people with a couple of degrees.
San Francisco attracts the brightest; LA attracts the pretties, New York attracts the most liberal and DC attracts the cruelest, most ugly (both inside and outside) and souless people.
If you are a person with a dead soul, with desire for power and promiscuity (of course you have to be a man. If you are a woman, then you have to wait with other gorgeous women to sleep with a bald and short typical DC man), with no standard for morals, then DC is for you!
If you are a decent and bright person, staying in this city is unbearable.
brightest? Haha! They are just nerdy people with a couple of degrees.
San Francisco attracts the brightest; LA attracts the pretties, New York attracts the most liberal and DC attracts the cruelest, most ugly (both inside and outside) and souless people.
If you are a person with a dead soul, with desire for power and promiscuity (of course you have to be a man. If you are a woman, then you have to wait with other gorgeous women to sleep with a bald and short typical DC man), with no standard for morals, then DC is for you!
If you are a decent and bright person, staying in this city is unbearable.
We certainly attract people with a talent for melodrama.
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