I know a lot about living in DC because I lived in Oxon Hill MD, then NW Washington DC near Dupont Circle. I worked at the Pentagon and My Husband worked at Bethesda Naval Hospital. This was a long time ago, and even then it was not a great place to live.
Broward County is another undesirable place that I escaped from more than a decade ago.
Glenn Beck and others are leaving the dreaded Northeast for the sanity and relative safety of Texas, or Florida or any place South.
I think Sarah is trying to be less hyper,and calmer. Look at the Movie the Undefeated you see how much more hyper she has become and she may be toning it down. I noticed a huge difference in that Sarah in Alaska and the Sarah after all the crazies have been after her. I think she is getting the old Sarah back.
Got a North Stafford alumni here! LOL Well actually, that was our last place there. With housing in that area, we started out renting in Arlington. Then we bought a townhouse in Lorton. Then we bought a single family house in Lake Ridge. Then we bought a bigger home in the North Stafford area. My husband always joked that if we just kept going down 95 to buy bigger houses... that by the time he retired, we would be already living in Florida! LOL
My husband was at Fort Myer the entire time (25 years), so he knows the Pentagon pretty well (was there from time to time), and we share many of the same memories of that Baltimore - Washington area, I’m sure. :) You may have seen my husband around town, but I won’t say what he did here. :-) NO, he wasn’t a federal worker! (Thought I might want to clarify that.) :)
We ALMOST went the Maryland route when we first moved there. My husband is actually from Western Maryland and has family in the MD suburbs of DC still. However, I refused to become a Maryland resident because I would have to re-take the driving test to get my license transferred there whereas Virginia would only make me take the written test to transfer. So, our ENTIRE life there was based on the fact that I wanted the easiest way to get my driving licensed transferred!
It worked out well all in all though. Maryland is so liberal, and Virginia was at least tolerable. Plus we home schooled, and the home schooling rules and regs in Maryland were HORRIBLE whereas Virginia... not so bad. If I can say this without boasting, home schooling in Texas is absolutely awesome though. I won’t go into it here, but email me if you wanted to know about that for some reason. Too bad I was basically already done home schooling all of my kids when we moved here to Texas!
Talk about living amongst city dwellers.... I grew up on a farm in WV. Moving to the D.C. area was quite the feat for me. Except for Arlington though which may as well be DC, we took more kindly to the suburbs. Stafford is 40 miles out of DC, and that and Lake Ridge right before that is where we spent most of our time when we were there. We LOVED going to Fredericksburg, VA for our little city while we lived in Stafford. Not sure if you’ve ever been there, but it’s a fun little place.
Sorry I talked so much here, and it was all about me too. Guess I keep myself out of trouble talking campaign stuff anyway when I do this.
Nice to chat, and again, sorry for the bad start.
PS, Thanks for the insight as to SP. I hope she finds that inner strength that lifts her to her highest levels. Hope she finds.... herself again.