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DC: Best City to Live In?

post #1 of 62
7/20/08 at 6:52pm
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Apparently Outside magazine is about to name DC the best city to live in America. Any thoughts? I've always had a love/hate relationship with my hometown. I will admit that things are much better now than they were 20 even 10 years ago though. http://dcist.com/2008/07/09/are_we_a_town_or_a_city.php
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post #2 of 62
7/20/08 at 6:55pm
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post #3 of 62
7/20/08 at 7:01pm
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Wasn't Conne about to move here? I hear he has a stool with his name on it at The Fireplace. That should be enough, no? (sorry Conne)
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post #4 of 62
7/20/08 at 7:37pm
I live in Alexandria and go to school in D.C., but I don't think I would vote for it to be the best city to live in.

That being said, it does have a good public transportation system.
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post #5 of 62
7/20/08 at 8:13pm
Speaking as an Annapolis resident and someone who works in NoVa/DC, the only thing I don't like about DC is the neverending traffic mess, and the cold weather in the winter. I have winter depression so that's my biggest problem.

Otherwise we have Metro, great shopping, awesome food, a beautiful river, and enough museums and history to give someone something to do in their off time. Go District of Columbia!!

JB
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post #6 of 62
7/20/08 at 8:52pm
I don't know if I'd name it the "the best." Maybe it's the best in the sense of proximity to places with amazing food like NYC and great other cool east coast cities, as well as being a short flight over to Europe.
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post #7 of 62
7/20/08 at 10:04pm
The Fireplace is too blackalicious for someone as trad as Conne. He don't take kindly to teh black.
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post #8 of 62
7/20/08 at 10:09pm
Ever since I moved to NYC from DC, I could never live in DC again. Even to settle down. As a CITY, the place sucks. It has nice suburbs but I do not consider it a city. I have heard from many that Chicago is a good balance between city and suburban life.
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post #9 of 62
7/20/08 at 10:19pm
I grew up in Austin but I positively love it up here. That being said I don't actually live in DC, I live in Bethesda.
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post #10 of 62
7/20/08 at 10:25pm
It's an interesting place that punches culturally well above its weight, although the dining scene is several years behind the curve, the shopping is god-f#*g awful terrible (Filene's Basement is the most interesting store in town), and city can be unexpectedly, violently criminal along with being expectedly corrupt and badly run.

Still, it's got a good, air-conditioned metro, driveable streets, pleasant views and is one of the few places where even politics geeks can feel sort of cool, perhaps because the city is so uncool.
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post #11 of 62
7/20/08 at 10:33pm
The Metro and all other mass transit SUCKS and is terribly inefficient: when it works. The shopping is horrible, if you took away the Kennedy Center and the government sponsored museums there would be no arts scene. Personally, I think there are a good number of restaurants maybe not enough diversity though. Alternatively, there is politics, lots of free festivals (even though they did away with the Taste of DC) and stunning architecture and history here, but I think NYC, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, even Portland and Seattle would be more fun to live.

I love politics, but if I didn't I couldn't see myself loving DC.
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post #12 of 62
7/20/08 at 11:04pm
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Originally Posted by mmhollis View Post
NYC, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin,
How? I was bored out of my mind when I visited Atlanta and Austin.

JB
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post #13 of 62
7/20/08 at 11:06pm
I think the metro is one of DC's redeeming qualities. Its prompt, clean, easy to access, and navigate. I mean, it gets crowded during the rush, but thats expected. There was one man who punched the door (really hard) because there was a delay (trains were sharing a track). It was only five minutes wait, I think the man was insane.
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post #14 of 62
7/21/08 at 12:58am
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Originally Posted by GoSurface View Post
I think the metro is one of DC's redeeming qualities. Its prompt, clean, easy to access, and navigate. I mean, it gets crowded during the rush, but thats expected.
+1
Fresh back from Paris, I can tell you that it's hard to overstate how much cleaner the DC Metro is than the Paris Metro or the NY subway.
Metros in a lot of cities get crowded, but at least the AC in the DC Metro helps with the sardine can effect.
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post #15 of 62
7/21/08 at 2:40am
How? I was bored out of my mind when I visited Atlanta and Austin.


I think your the first person who has told me they were bored in Atlanta and Austin for that matter. When did you go? With the University of Texas in Austin its hardly EVER boring, even in the summer with the great music festivals, film festival and food festivals. Atlanta is one of America's most exciting cities, great bars, music, women and food and hell the Hawks even made the playoffs!

I guess, the A/C on the Metro is a positive thing. I just believe that WMATA wastes so much money on things that I don't find important, but I guess are for others. Instead of A/C I'd rather have a train that gets me to work on time and a plan that made sense (why does the Green Line extend to Ft. Totten ONLY after rush hour). Also if the Metro were open 24 hours maybe we could see a downtown that was actually a true downtown!
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