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No offense, but you sound like your from the stix, and just recently moved to DC.
How am I from the stix if I think DC is unique. Any moron should be able to see that it's a unique city like no other. I don't car if you hate DC and love NYC, you can still see that it's different. It's built after Paris and has many different qualities that other cities don't have. Also this is coming from a guy that prefers NYC. NYC is one of my favorite cities in the country, but that doesn't mean DC isn't great as well. I was just kidding before, but you really are only 15 huh? You're posts sure do sound like it.
tahiti... I wasn't lashing out. Just pointing out facts. Like I said, that's just what some people look for. It just annoys me when kids come on here(killakoolaide) and think nothing makes sense unless it's their own opinion. That's why these forums are becoming so bad. It's the same people posting the same biased stuff when they've probably never left their city. It just so happens that many of them seem to be from NYC. If I would have never been to NYC and based the people there on the ones that post here, I'd think it's the worst city in the world with some of the rudest and ignorant people. Thankfully, I know that's not true and its just that it happens to be the ones on here. No offense to you, this isn't directed at you. Sorry if it came across that way.
But "Median income", IMHO, is meaningless. Just need to look at HQs of the country's top companies and where millionaires/centimillionaires/billioniares reside (not just swarms of $100K year earning gub'ment workers creating high median incomes and artificially boosting statistics like in DC)
And yes, more millionaires in NYC per-capita than DC. Far more in raw numbers as well.
Metros by % of millionaires
New York City 3.6% [561,800]
San Francisco 3.4%
Boston 2.9% Washington 2.9% [127,700]
Chicago 2.2%
Detroit 2.2%
Los Angeles 2.0%
Philadelphia 1.8%
Houston 1.5%
So DC may be a more uniformly comfortable middle-class metro, but stands no chance against NYC when it comes to wealth.
That's true. But one has to wonder - what good is it to you if you're not among that tiny multi-millionaire/billionaire class in NYC? Is it still that appealing if you're among the vast middle class, which is far more likely?
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How am I from the stix if I think DC is unique. Any moron should be able to see that it's a unique city like no other. I don't car if you hate DC and love NYC, you can still see that it's different. It's built after Paris and has many different qualities that other cities don't have. Also this is coming from a guy that prefers NYC. NYC is one of my favorite cities in the country, but that doesn't mean DC isn't great as well. I was just kidding before, but you really are only 15 huh? You're posts sure do sound like it.
Being modeled after paris doesn't make you unique, it makes you a copycat from the start.
And what different qualities does DC have, aside from the capitol stuff, that other cities don't have. Even the shape of the city looks like they were trying to copy Baltimore.
Being modeled after paris doesn't make you unique, it makes you a copycat from the start.
And what different qualities does DC have, aside from the capitol stuff, that other cities don't have. Even the shape of the city looks like they were trying to copy Baltimore.
C'mon, I've met folks living in remote villages of 3rd world countries who could identify the White House, Capitol Building and Washington Monument.
Being modeled after paris doesn't make you unique, it makes you a copycat from the start.
And what different qualities does DC have, aside from the capitol stuff, that other cities don't have. Even the shape of the city looks like they were trying to copy Baltimore.
C'mon, I've met folks living in remote villages of 3rd world countries who could identify the White House, Capitol Building and Washington Monument.
I said aside from the capitol stuff.
But DC is nice and unique, unique just like every other major city in the US.
I think the guy was refrencing the local culture of DC when he said its more unique than anywhere else, and while I agree that it is unique, I don't believe it is any moreso than most major cities. Afterall, it is one of the more transient cities in America.
Places in and around DC even stole names from from places in and around Philly, Like Germantown, Mount Airy, and Montgomery County(though they call it MoCo and we call it Montco)all Philly area originals.
Last edited by killakoolaide; 06-04-2010 at 12:30 PM..
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