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So your backing him means you agree with that ridiculous classification?
It wasn't a ridiculous classification. You used the words "no one" which he didn't use. There's a difference between "no one" and "some," right? His exact words were...
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Way too much of DC's nightlife is work-oriented and centered around networking
How do you get "no one" out of "way too much?" Man, you guys are something else.
Depends on your annual salary. If I made well over $300K a year, DC would be my choice. I could then afford to own a small 1-2 condo, pay ridiculous prices for meals, concerts, sporting events, parking...you name it - things in DC are more expensive.
Baltimore actually gives people making less than six figures the chance to own a home.
Both cities have issues with rats, public schools and traffic. DC's traffic is worse, but Baltimore wins on crime. DC has a higher HIV/AIDS population, but Baltimore has more people living below poverty.
I live in Baltimore and absolutely love it. It has more of a city feeling...like Chicago and Boston. People will talk to you in a bar, might even buy you a round of Natty Boh! DC is just too arrogant and stuffy for my tastes. Obviously, this question gets raised every other month usually by a DC writer.....I truly believe it is hype to keep DC residents feeling like they are superior. Especially since they paid at least three to five times more to live in the District.
Baltimore has a very high HIV/AIDS population as well. And both cities and their respective metro areas got crazy drivers but yeah traffic can be a menace around here. Second only to L.A. Go figure lol
Baltimore should have a better club music scene. That's like me saying that DC has a better go-go scene. LOL Baltimore's nightlife is weak compared to DC's on so many levels that it is not worth comparing. But it does have some cool a$$ bars.
+2 This! As far as I know, Baltimore's nightlife areas are Charles Village, Hampden, Fells Point, Harbor East, Little Italy (I think), Canton, and a couple of others.
In DC, there's H Street NE/Atlas District, Cardozo/Shaw, U Street, Dupont Circle, Chinatown/Gallery Place, K Street, Georgetown, Capitol Hill, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, 14th Street, Connecticut Avenue, Cleveland Park, Woodley Park, Ivy City/Near Northeast/New York Avenue (Mega-Clubs), Logan Circle, and Penn Quarter. The arrival of CityCenterDC once it's completed and mostly leased out to commercial and residential spaces will definitely another element to the already booming Downtown nightlife scene. Then you have nightlife options out here in some of the DMV suburbs such as Old Town Alexandria, Clarendon, Ballston, Courthouse, Frederick (Maryland), Downtown Leesburg, Downtown Fredericksburg, Downtown Silver Spring (Especially around Georgia Ave), Bethesda, Rockville Town Center, National Harbor, University Town Center, Downtown Hyattsville, Takoma Park, and parts of Route 1. My criteria for nightlife are dance/music clubs, mega-clubs, lounges, bars (late-night/after-hours/watering holes), restaurants (late-night/hole-in-the-wall/street food-style, etc.), pubs/taverns, etc.
I choose DC because it is an Alpha-World City and just offers more in terms of things to do. It has better food and perhaps greater scenery with the Potomac, nearby swamps and the Tidal Basin when the cherry blossoms bloom. Both are nice cities but can't compare. BUT I agree that the DC lifestyle is not for me-too busy and rushed. Everyone lives to work. Been there, done that.
I went last summer, I notice international students and ones from the US all start their trip in DC and then go to NYC and some finish in Boston while others just go back home. DC and NYC are a great combo pack trip IMO, I have done the two together too.
I like DC, its a great town with a cool vibe IMO. One of the few cities I could live in if I was forced to leave CA. I look at DC as a peer city to San Francisco, Toronto, and Chicago IMO that's where it belongs. These are NA's elite second tier cities after NY, LA, and DF IMO.
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Way too much of DC's nightlife is work-oriented and centered around networking.
That stuff exists, but it's hardly anything close to much of DC's nightlife. There a couple of big networking spots, but the heart of DC's nightlife has nothing to do with that.
That stuff exists, but it's hardly anything close to much of DC's nightlife. There a couple of big networking spots, but the heart of DC's nightlife has nothing to do with that.
Pretty much alot of DC has nothing to do with politics
Pretty much alot of DC has nothing to do with politics
this..
i wonder where these people that say this bout dc hang out at but i realize this is city-data so most people commenting are probly sitting at their government desk doin nothing and their only freinds or peers they know are government employees who arent from here and dont know anything..
im born and raised here and politics or occupation is never EVER the topic of discussion when im at the bar/lounge/clubs
and no matter how many yuppies move into the city the local (black) culture is still strong and prevalent throughout the area.. and to whoever said baltimore has more style than DC is simply laughable
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