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"My family wanted to do something different this year so we stayed at a historic luxury hotel in a nice part of DC. What we didn't know was that it was bought out by a private equity firm (The Anasazi Group) a few years ago and was "updated" absolutely horribly."
"Inner suburb of DC. Broad daylight. Well-off suburban street, early to mid afternoon. I was walking to the supermarket, headphones in listening to Radio War Nerd, when all of a sudden a guy puts his arm round my shoulders from behind and jabs a pistol into my ribs."
"Teen carjacking is part of our culture. The brunch experience is dodging fentanyl zombies and people watching in our $50 a person restaurant. These DEA FREAKS don't appreciate laughing off petty crime and dodging dirt bikes at 10 pm on a Sunday."
"But I'm a Chicago resident who has recently visited NYC, Boston, and DC. Been to all cities pre pandemic and I would say there is a huge increase in generally aggressive homeless behavior(accosting/harassing people on the street etc)."
"New York, LA, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, Boston, Miami, and Minneapolis All the other "big cities" are either shells of their former selves and can no longer support urban life or are post-war suburban sprawl sunbelt cities."
"Also, conservative women basically do not exist in the DC area so that was also a huge red flag. My guess is that everyone saw that meme about liberal chicks doxxing Trumpees at the rally last weekend and tried to get in on the action."
"At first everyone was super excited once we all found out who the guest was, lol - then he spent a majority of the set talking about bringing back the word retarded, which made the mostly liberal DC crowd uncomfortable, so the reactions were mixed and the energy in the room was a little off"
"Hell, there is a reason why the starting salary for the same exact position at a large firm pays more in DC or NYC than it does in LA or SF—it's a lot easier to survive off $70K in those Californian cities than it is to survive off $80k in DC or NYC."
"So am I the weird one for thinking this is all a little over the top? I mean I don't love Trump either but you'd seriously think it was VE Day in 1945 or something. Like these people legitimately 100% think we just voted away fascism racism sexism homophobia and everything other bad thing ever, no j"
"I feel like it's bad here as well, just in a different way. 3 dates in last month and it felt like a recitation of a resume ('Yeah our think tank is basically the one the NYT calls when it's writing on tech issues')."
"My first year in DC, in 2018, I tried out a bunch of stuff. One weekend I went to Shenandoah for the weekend with some DC-based playwright collective."
"Canada has no gestational limit but no one will perform abortions after 24 weeks there so if they want one most will travel to DC at the DuPont clinic and they will cover the fetus with a hat after crushing its skull and give you its handprints as a memento. They ask absolutely no questions and will"
"If The United States was ever invaded, what presidents do you think would pull a Zelenskyy and not leave DC? Let's also say its a credible invasion from an actually competent Army. DC is being shelled like Kiev and the frontline is an equivalent distance."
"I live near DC (save me) and pretty much the only thing I hear people mention is the restaurants. how are there so many and why do they matter so much to people who's only sense of culture and identity is being in that city? they're getting more and more samey and gentrified too"
"As someone who lives in DC, I see Anti-Trump protests all the time, and every single one looks like an old folks home, with almost no one under 40 being present. The only exclusion to this is the Palestine protests which are the reverse, being almost largely young people."
"Feels like a good place to ask given you're the most mentally French group of Americans i know of (sorry if that's insulting)."
"I live in a midsized city under two hours from dc so I see a lot of different people."
"I was wrong. DC is not cool. It is cringe. I'm sorry rsp. I will never doubt u again."
"I'm down here currently and everyone is ugly and autistic and I have absolutely no idea why, it's jarring."
"DC: warped gender ratio"
"we've been told to RTO 5 days a week. I don't live in DC (never have since I started this job) and I know some senior staff in similar situations so not sure how they're planning to enforce this."