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sw20 
Aren't General Dynamics and LockheedMartin already HQ'd in Wash suburbs?
Doubt many smart engineers from Stanford or Berkeley choose to work for aerospace/defense industry anymore....may have been true in '60s or '70s...but sharpest kids today are usu CS grads who go to either BigTech or start-ups in SiliconValley...or hedge funds in CA or NYC...not a lot of bucks or intellectual challenge working for a gvt contractor, esp when 30-something Stanford alums are some of wealthiest guys in world after starting own cos. (or being early employees in now-ancient cos. like google)
Besides, life is too short to live in a dump like Wash; anyone smart/ambitious tends to live/work in SV or Manhattan these days, both for lifestyle and to maximize career liquidity amongst the many tech or financial start-ups of more dynamic regions
DC a dump? Hardly? It's a vibrant city where one can actually afford to live in a real house. Perhaps you're too young to care about such things. Traffic and weather suck (but neither NYC or SV can really brag about there's)...
When you're a little older, maybe you'll be a little better informed and less sure of yourself (the two are not mutually exclusive)
But other than that we just learn to deal with it here, it seems.
