Posted on 07/27/2020 10:11:39 AM PDT by NRx
Mayor Bowser broke her contract with residents like me. So we’re leaving.
During the last night in my condo in DC, I had to walk my dog an extra lap around the block because a crazy person was outside screaming obscenities. I wasn’t afraid. I just didn’t feel like getting into it with him or having to listen to his story—his “Let me just tell you something,” attempt to get money from me. It was 1 A.M., and I was tired from a night out—but more so, just tired in general. Tired of it all.
...I did my part, too. My role in the fabric of urban society, overlooked but essential, was to spend my money. Eat, drink, shop, spend, tip, pay. And man, did I pay: taxes, rents, then a mortgage and HOA fees. I paid taxes on things the government deemed “bad” for me, like alcohol and cigarettes; taxes on services which organized labor deemed “bad” for them, like rideshare. I paid gas tax, cable tax, cell phone tax, and, of course, income tax. Lots of income tax.
All I asked in return was relative safety and to be left alone to enjoy the city. City-living in America, for decades, meant tolerating mild inconveniences so that you could be left alone, alongside millions of others. That was the tacit pact.
And DC broke it.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
DC now vs. DC 20 years ago? Night and day. The schools are a lagging, not leading, indicator, but we now have people moving onto Capitol Hill to be in-boundary for a couple of our local public elementary schools. That was unheard of when my kids were young; either you paid for private schools or you moved to the ‘burbs. (The crunch will come in middle and high school, where DCPS has yet to show much progress.) The sketchy neighborhoods are transitioning fast. The poor are being priced out. Steet awareness is still important, especially in transitioning areas, but the city is trending the right way.
I read the whole thing. Thanks for posting.
The author’s Twitter makes it look like he is either conservative or libertarian.
Marion Shepilov Barry (born Marion Barry Jr.; March 6, 1936 – November 23, 2014) was an American politician who served as Mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991 and 1995 to 1999.
So, you're saying that it was better under Barry?
Regards,
NW DC has been very nice until recently.
Not all of the triple murders were by gunfire, for whatever difference it makes to you. One that I will never forget occurred at the Lincoln Park Tourist Hotel, on the SE corner of Lincoln Park and 13th Street, SE. Two women had their throats slit, and a baby was drowned in a bathtub. So common was ultra-violence in those days, the WAPO ran it as a small item on the inside of the Metro section in one edition.
Good read, but what, about the Democrat party, did the author not understand?
Today's Democrat/Communist party will NEVER EVER leave ANYONE alone, to live their own life.
That is NOT what they are about.
Obviously not.
Oh, I don’t doubt that for a minute. Just trying to stay a bit ahead of them.
Socialists destroy everything they touch.
attend the BLM March=she is out of the will.
It was a White Privilege thing. The more White Privilege you have, the more you needed to march.
You get kicked out of the will for telling me that politics doesn’t matter. Or being like my siblings and being politically loud but can’t be bothered to vote.
It is a good article. We have our main house in suburb Oklahoma City and a 125 acre cattle ranch in very rural SE Oklahoma. Retired. We now days spend more time at the ranch than in the snazy suburb house, that is outside of OKLAHOMA CITY..... Anyone choosing to live in a major city, Chicago, NYC, DC, Detroit, LA etc is crazy. I mean you couldn’t pay me to live in one of those places.
I did my 11 years in the city (Boston). Yes it was nice in many ways. Easily walking to restaurants, museums, sporting events, tons of peers around, etc. But then we started having kids and I couldn’t tolerate the bad parts anymore - terrible parking, homeless drunks and druggies, awful teenagers spilling out of the public schools, petty vandalism, crime (my car broken into, stolen outright, my brother’s car stolen when he visited once)...and the final straw...my son not getting assigned to the school 2 blocks from our house.
We sold our house in 3 days for more than double what we paid for it. Don’t have a single regret. I think of the couple that bought my place back in 2014...suckers...
... for whatever difference it makes to you.
It makes none. I was just making fun of how liberals discount crime.
It’s good, but he lost me at where he could move sixty miles away and find paradise.
As a lad in DC my friend, his older brother would walk about 2 miles to Fort Simms in SE. In rear in thw woods was a target range. We would each carry ammo, guns of various types for and afternoon of firing at the range. Never once did anyone say anything to us even the police
It's possible but you have to work at it. Based on my experience in NW I'd bet 75% of the crime dots on your map are thefts from cars or pretty burglaries.
Often committed by kids or visiting workmen. There's so little crime that too many people leave their cars and garages unlocked.
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