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DC is more expensive than NY. We have to stop thinking otherwise. There is no Hoboken/Brooklyn in the DC area where you can get affordable housing. The above photos indicate a search of apartments for rent under 1000. In the DC area you would need a car to live in a place that cheap.
The highest income tax level in NY is 8.9% in DC it is 10%
Salaries should be higher here.
"More people relocate to the District each year from Manhattan than from Fairfax County. The District gains more residents from Chicago and Los Angeles than from Alexandria, with newcomers from Philadelphia and San Diego close behind. Eight of the top 15 places that people have left for the District are outside the region."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/district-gaining-more-residents-from-outside-the-region/2012/03/28/gIQAqOvfhS_story.html?hpid=z3
43 percent of voters say random choices from phone book would perform better than current Congress
This does not link to an Onion article. Via Karen Tumulty
You know you live in DC
When you hope you get home from dinner with the girls in time for the SOTU. Every street in NW will be silent at 9 PM.
Speak Now: How to Live in Washington DC
Get accepted into a “competitive” fellowship or internship or entry level lobbying position – whatever. Think this is it: it’s only a matter of time before you are saving the world (or securing a “real” job). Look on Craigslist for an apartment… see that the price of a one bedroom condo by the… (Source: from-here-to-kingdom-come)
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WASHINGTON, DC - Kingston’s Big Day Out!
Michelle Obama was booed yesterday at a NASCAR race. Which she was attending to support a charity for military families. Seriously?
Shacks of the Bonus Army in Anacostia.
