If you checked out the management company and it’s legit you made a great choice (assuming you’re the sort of 20 something that likes to go out to bars).

I know of a lawyer who was making 200k+ who quit in his late 20s to become a moderately successful musician.

I mean I definitely don’t speed on certain streets where I know there are speed cameras.

Sentencing limits having NO impact on crime does not feel accurate.

I absolutely would not live there if I could afford anywhere else.

Yeah but it's not always the case, we have plenty of contrary examples.

The facts, as they currently stand do not look great for MPD. BUT PLEASE I am once again asking for people to wait for more details to come out before jumping to conclusions about who was at fault and what happened.

This was a great answer.

I don't think you realize you would be in an area with regular shootings/murders (albeit, it's mostly beef between people who know each other)/mentally ill homeless who would harass you/regular car break-ins/car jackings. When I lived near there, my sister would refuse to walk to the grocery store without me during the day because she would feel uncomfortable/harassed/was followed.

What’s your background? I personally would not feel comfortably living there.

You must be new around here…

I tell them what I do and then ask them who they’ve got winning in the most regionally relevant sports game going on that weekend. Vast majority of non DC normal people don’t really care/talk about politics unless directly promoted.

Walkability and incredible restaurants/bars casually everywhere. Love DC.

I complain about DC regularly but it’s easily my favorite city to live in in the world — best balance of quality of life and culture. Check my post history to confirm. Move here if you are on the fence at all, it’s worth it.

Do you hate traditional styles of architecture due to deep-rooted psychological complexes?

Exactly. Thanks for agreeing that there isn’t a substantive difference between the costs associate with a townhouse/rowhouse facade and the monstrous modernist popouts that are being built around the city.

That’s it’s economical to build high density buildings in a traditional style.

Lol modern/contemporary homes are more expensive to build not less: https://nehomemag.com/the-cost-to-build-a-contemporary-home-why-its-higher-than-a-traditional-one/

And if it’s “just the market,” why are developments like this built at all: https://www.chevychaselake.com?

The reality is that a lot of it has to do with the imposition of top-down elitist architectural tastes which abhors all traditional design out of some egotistical pretentiousness.

Those are really nice (and fill me with happiness). I think we are on the same team here.

So you prefer we built what instead? The weird cheap blocky modernist condos which are identical in every city in the US? Give it 20 years of wear and tear and it’ll have the same “feel” as the older rowhouses.

This makes me happy.

Huh, are you aware that developers still can and do build row houses (built in 2009 and 2001):

https://www.dccondoboutique.com/capitol-quarter/

https://www.dccondoboutique.com/harrison-square-townhomes/

Modern developers/architects are opposed to building in classical styles, in part due to their bias, in part because it’s likely to get rejected by the DC planning boards for “giving a false sense of history.” Bizarre because rowhouses are almost universally celebrated by the public for their beauty and character.

https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/publication/attachments/DC%20New%20Construction%20Reformatted.pdf

PS anyone saying that it’s prohibitively expensive to build in that style doesn’t realize that: 1) the vast majority of the expense of building consists of the land and internal constructions; 2) a number of new rowhouses have been built in the last few decades (see Capital Quarter in Navy Yard, Harrison Square in Shaw, etc.).

It’s weird, almost like a deliberate decision to make DC more ugly…

It’s actually statistical zero.

I think that’s my point precisely actually — hence why the above poster is mistaken in viewing his opinion as the absolute truth regarding consciousness.

I mean this earnestly — I don’t think what you’re describing is necessarily an irrefutable certainty, at all. Look at existence in the first place, we are sentient beings on a rock existing in a vast expanse of nothingness. That doesn’t make any logical sense. Our scientific understanding of the world around us is beyond primitive. You don’t need religion to think that there’s more to this than what we can physically observe.