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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I don't get this.
If I could live anywhere, DC would be about 590th on my list, maybe lower.
The list would go something like this:
1 Boston area (obv.)
2 Other Massachusetts
3 Montreal
4 Shanghai
5 London
6 Toronto
7 Copenhagen
8 Athens
9 Istanbul
10 Hong Kong
....
50 Beirut
51 Lisbon
.....
385 Ho Chi Minh City
395 Jersey City
396 Tijuana
.....
590 DC
591 Florida
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When I was young and single DC was about it. The thing is they flush out a million people with each election and bring in new ones, so there are all these newbers looking towards their futures- and partying like nuts- all these young people w/o any roots- it was heady.
I had one Congressional aide in my crew. Lots of boring gov functionaries of course, but we weren't really tied to the gov. And you have got to go to at least one CIA party in your life.
You know how work parties are always "I ain't talking about work..." They 4 drinks in you're bitching that you can't seem to get that GS-13? Well CIA parties start the same way, except when it gets time to talk about work, they can't, so they turn on TV.
But I wouldn't even think of living there with a family- way too crowded.
