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Ask HN: Moving to DC in 2023?

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Re: Ask HN: Moving to DC in 2023?

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I lived in DC, just south of Logan Circle for the past 5 years, before moving out to Falls Church. I lived in Arlington for 2 years before that, and have plenty of friends in Alexandria and other parts of DC and NoVA, so I feel like I have a pretty good sense of things. I've been all over, and I really do think DC is an underrated city. The food in DC is definitely competitive with New York, LA, and Chicago, the quan…

> crime is very very localized and you're unlikely to wander into a bad part of town if you're in pretty much any area of central and North West DC

It's all a bad part of town. Northwest DC isn't safe either.

From literally later the same day you posted this:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/woman-kidnapped-at-...

Re: Ask HN: Moving to DC in 2023?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Contractor for thirty years?

Yep. I worked for a half dozen different contracting companies over those years and in three different groups. I was at Goddard two separate times, with a three year break in the Real World in between. My two stints together amount to just short of thirty years. I retired last July.

Yes thanks. Guess I was wondering about the ethics of why that would be the case, rather than the details.
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