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Devastator1981 OP t1_j54xbvu wrote

Reply to comment by Professional-Can1385 in “Everybody here is a transplant” by Devastator1981

>I would say my friends and acquaintances are about 50/50 native and transplant. But the transplants have almost all been here at least a decade. We’re lifers.

I knew those existed in this city! I was starting to wonder 😉

I think what people mean to say is "a high number [or many] young white-collar professionals in their 20s are transient and often from elsewhere". It's a very specific demographic to which that applies to, and they're often friends with each other and so folks just apply it as a blanket statement. And even that might be too general, it's the Hill/public policy/IR/poli sci crowd even within the white-collar professionals that are disproportionally transient, but to be fair DC has a relatively higher number of this crowd than probably any other city in the US (the world?).

I'm not even being that pedantic, outside of that demographic there's quite a bit of lifers and people here in DC for the long haul!

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msmith1994 t1_j5hbs1h wrote

This! I’m in my late 20s and moved to the DMV in 2016. I moved into DC proper in 2018, and was in Silver Spring and Bethesda before that. I’m a civilian fed, but not in the policy/poli sci space. Many of my friends moved here to work for the government but intend to stay here. I also have close friends and coworkers that are DMV natives that work for the government.

I think you’re spot on that it’s Hill/poli sci/public policy people that are transient. In my neighborhood (Michigan Park), there’s tons of retired/current career feds. Also lots of. DC government employees. Lots of DC natives up here. My neighbors have been in their house for like 40 years.

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