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"Michael Johnson, PE" wrote | | I had similar problems when I moved to the DC area right out of college. | I spent the first 22 years of my life in a county that had less than | 20,000 people living in it. After 4-5 years it become home to me. I | don't know if I could take the slower pace of life there now. I do | think it would be harder for me to move back there and adjust now than | is was to move here 20 years ago.

It's not the slower pace. It's so many other things. I could complain for a page and a half though, and it wouldn't change a thing.

Hopefully, I will get used to it. If not in a year or so, I'm putting a for sale sign in the front yard.

Kate

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"Michael Johnson, PE" wrote ::snip::

The gang actually got within about 20' from the car before I was | able to pull away from them.

I would have had to change my drawers after that.

Why do you think they were doing that? Seriously. Sometimes I am pretty naive.

Kate

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At that time 14th Street was a major haven for drug dealers, hookers and pimps and about any other degenerate living in DC. I think they saw two cornbread fed Hoosiers and planned to either sell us drugs or get any money we had by any means necessary. I had made direct eye contact with several of them and then proceeded to ignore them. I think that is what got the whole mess started. Also, my friend and I were probably the only whites in the area which really made us stick out like a sore thumb. Especially, driving a Triumph Spitfire with the top down. We had "out of town" written all over us which probably translated to "easy mark" to that gang. Initially though, I think they assumed we were trying to score drugs.

DC is a rather strange place. There are parts of it that are as bad as it can get for any major city. However, if you stay around the monuments, White House, Capital etc. you could walk around at any time of the day or night and feel about as safe as if you're walking around your own back yard. The transition from one area to the next can happen in the distance of a couple of blocks.

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If I were to retire now I would have to move to the Carolinas to live. Every time I have been there I just fall in love with that area all over again. The weather is nice, people are friendly, mountains are close, beach is close, lots of water for fishing/boating etc.

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In the 60s, DC had, within blocks of the Capital and other touristy places, the worst crime ridden slums in the nation. Well, actually, they probably were not the worst, but the contrast between the tourist safe parts of the city and the slummy parts was so great that it made them seem worse. It is strange that the city which is supposed the shining example of democracy should allow anything to tarnish it's image. That was 40 years ago. I had thought there was a move to clean it up but perhaps Marion Berry needed sources closer to home and brought 'em back.

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In the last 5-10 years DC has made some significant gains. They have shaken off the effects of Marion Barry for the most part and are financially much better off. Rumor has it though that old Marion will run in the next Mayor's election and I bet he would win in a landslide. He already sits on the City Council and he won that seat with close to

90% of the votes > In the 60s, DC had, within blocks of the Capital and other touristy
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Why he gets elected is fairly obvious based on the population makeup of DC. Similar conditions exist in Cincinnati, OH.

Even with a cleanup program, and I am glad for that, my guess is it has not changed all that much as to who lives where. The ones with the bucks (no pun intended) live in Maryland, Delaware, or the "special" DC areas.

Apparently, dur>In the last 5-10 years DC has made some significant gains. They have

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The cleanup is basically driven by escalating property values. Housing costs in the DC area is sky rocketing. The rehabilitation craze is in full swing and if you look at a map of DC it's spreading like bacteria in a petri dish from the Capitol Building. In the next 10 years the DC metropolitan area will have a housing shortage of 200,000 units. This will further push the rehab market into the low income areas.

DC has more than its share of high rollers. A quick drive through Northwest DC will confirm it. The rehab business it mostly moving to the south and east of the Capitol.

We never forget here that it is those Senators and C> Why he gets elected is fairly obvious based on the population makeup

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Read Tom Clancy's book... "The Sum of All Fears"?

In the 60s it was pretty much the same as far as property values go.... only a lot lower prices... LOL

Same >The cleanup is basically driven by escalating property values. Housing

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