What's the Best Thing About Living in DC?

[Legs1357]

When I first moved here almost a year ago, I was convinced I haaaaated DC. I wanted to move back home as soon as my program was over. And then it hit me one day: I LOVE DC, I hate where I live (Alexandria). It was really hard for me to make that distinction but I'm glad I did. So here's my list:

1. I love that I'm moving to Petworth in 2 weeks
2. SW waterfront seafood. Yuuuuuum.
3. Eastern Market
4. LeDroit park rowhouses...some of my favorites

I also might be the only person in all of DC that hates Dupont.

[seiketsu]

Originally Posted by Eugene80

It's nice being around well-educated, cultured, intelligent people who know a bit about the world, who are well-travelled, white-collar, and intellectuals.

It's nice being around wealth and status. If you've ever lived in a poor working class town, you know how people can be cheap--and that's not a good attitude to have in life. Wealth makes life much more pleasant, cordial, and enjoyable.

This. It took me a long time to warm up to the DC area -- I was focused on too much traffic, too many people with too much money, too much competition for dating (an active singles scene is really not a good thing if you're looking for a relationship, because there's always the allure of something better just around the corner). I realized my attitude had changed during my last visit with family in rural Alabama. All the things I thought I wanted regarding a small town life, I realized were too stifling. I guess big-city living made me uppity, and fine dining at the Olive Garden, luxury shopping at JC Penny, and trying to explain where Cambodia was and why I wanted to travel there to people who viewed Disney World as the vacation of a lifetime just wasn't going to cut it anymore.

Very happy now to be living among the widely travelled who make too much money.

[ghett61]

Originally Posted by seiketsu

This. It took me a long time to warm up to the DC area -- I was focused on too much traffic, too many people with too much money, too much competition for dating (an active singles scene is really not a good thing if you're looking for a relationship, because there's always the allure of something better just around the corner). I realized my attitude had changed during my last visit with family in rural Alabama. All the things I thought I wanted regarding a small town life, I realized were too stifling. I guess big-city living made me uppity, and fine dining at the Olive Garden, luxury shopping at JC Penny, and trying to explain where Cambodia was and why I wanted to travel there to people who viewed Disney World as the vacation of a lifetime just wasn't going to cut it anymore.

Very happy now to be living among the widely travelled who make too much money.

I think we are practically the same person

[vivo]

Originally Posted by seiketsu

This. It took me a long time to warm up to the DC area -- I was focused on too much traffic, too many people with too much money, too much competition for dating (an active singles scene is really not a good thing if you're looking for a relationship, because there's always the allure of something better just around the corner). I realized my attitude had changed during my last visit with family in rural Alabama. All the things I thought I wanted regarding a small town life, I realized were too stifling. I guess big-city living made me uppity, and fine dining at the Olive Garden, luxury shopping at JC Penny, and trying to explain where Cambodia was and why I wanted to travel there to people who viewed Disney World as the vacation of a lifetime just wasn't going to cut it anymore.

Very happy now to be living among the widely travelled who make too much money.

all you have to do is say that it's next to vietnaym (misspelled on purpose)