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But you could see the Bastille Day Waiters Races, as servers from restaurants all over town celebrate French liberty, equality, and fraternity by dashing down Pennsylvania Avenue from Les Halles to the Capitol and back while carrying trays of champagne flutes. Finish time is important of course, but there are MAJOR deducts for champagne-spillage!!! Perhaps needless to say, post-race festivities are likely to go deep into the night...
And don't forget about the high-heel drag race! Every year on the Tuesday before Halloween, drag queens don their most outrageous outfits and heels and run the three-block race down 17th Street.
San Francisco is certainly a beautiful city, but it is no DC. There is more to living in a city than ambience. DC is on a very short list of true cosmopolitans. It has many of the benefits of New York or London without the overpopulation. It manages to maintain a small town feel, while being one of the most important cities in the world.
San Francisco is certainly a beautiful city, but it is no DC. There is more to living in a city than ambience. DC is on a very short list of true cosmopolitans. It has many of the benefits of New York or London without the overpopulation. It manages to maintain a small town feel, while being one of the most important cities in the world.
Very well said in your last two sentences. Also, DC's streets are generally quite well organized, thanks to the planners of DC in the 1790s who drew up such a nice street grid. I have seen the comment that DC maintains a somewhat 'European feel'. True that, with regards to architecture and aura, but obviously it has some of its urbanized, American aspects.
I agree with most, if not all, of the previous posts with regards to the economy of the DC area. Because of the stable economy of the DC area, the housing market is also quite stable, though recently we have experienced our fair shares of foreclosures (but that's a nationwide problem).
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San Francisco and DC have nothing in common. DC weather is awful - damp winters and unbearable summers. DC is stuffy and cliquish. Reconsider.
Lies (but not the comment on the summers)! did you consider autumn and spring? They are excellent! And have you stayed in the DC area all winter? If so, then you would have noticed how frequently we see 50s and even 60s in the winter months! And damp? Come on, look at all of the sunlit days in winter! Freezes do not come until November, and even then, winter does not really begin until mid-December and lasts until early March. Stop complaining about DC winters!
I've always found SF's self boasting about how "weird" they are to be extremely superficial and smug in its own way.
I've found most people who paint DC locals as "self absorbed" to basically be involved in certain narrow fields who can't see that there is more to the city.
The reality is that DC isn't for everybody. And its not an easy thing to explain or define who it's for.
It tends to be hit or miss. Just don't automatically buy into what those who bash it say. What they say probably does apply to them but not necessarily to everybody.
And don't forget about the high-heel drag race! Every year on the Tuesday before Halloween, drag queens don their most outrageous outfits and heels and run the three-block race down 17th Street.
Thank you.
The individual who stated how you don't see bath tub races because they might someday run for office just proved what I was saying about how some like to pigeon hole the city with a limited view point without realizing that there is more to it than they know.
ISo, no matter how liberal or conservative the individual, you won't see bath tub races going down one of the main roads in the city. After all, one of the contestants may run for office in the future!
Will these suffice? Can you identify the future politicians?
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