I look forward to the day Washington, DC and Detroit metro areas are equally prosperous.
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DC Metro is gorgeous as you would expect it to be since they have all our money... I’d like it to be brought down to the level of your average US City so I could afford it.. start by moving agencies to outlying cities in low cost states. DOE should be in Oklahoma.. BIA in Wyoming.. 90% of the EPA should be turned back to the states and it’s hq moved to upstate NY near Love Canal... CIA should be disbanded along with Homeland Security and the remaining security agencies merged and “rightsized” into a nice new HQ in an abandoned shopping mall complex in Ohio..
Agencies have branches all over the country. The EPA, for example, has ten regions each employing thousands of people.