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Dude. I lived in DC when the blue stopped at the airport. I know where the lines go. I just can't believe the city let a neighborhood vote on that. Not to mention the bar/restaurant owners that get hurt by the lack of one.

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well it needs to be a city that can be torn down to build the communities. But there is a part of Memphis that was poor and is now the area where the bars/restaurant that would attract the adders of Memphis. To live there might be sketchy, or at least people think it sketchy so there are several gated communities. I know some people like land, but some don't care.

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I am happy your type keep to the city.

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I can see how you might come to one way of thinking about cities in Philadelphia, and someone who lives in Boston or DC or San Francisco might come to completely different views.

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That's a myth.

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Just out of curiosity, what type do you believe these to be?

I've recently been here, here, here (and it pained me to be in the suburbs), here, here (although not really my sort of place, it's got a nice roof bar above a theater), and go here and here regularly.

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I knew that was bullshit. I was just letting Adder hang himself. But I also call bullshit on the "designed for commuters" from the article. It seems to me it was first designed for tourists. The original stops were very much non-residential. Green line was by far the most needed commuter line and it came last.

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the kind of club where super hot women go, and where the men are smart and know what they want, and what they want is to pay too much for watered down drinks.

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Huh.

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It's like you don't know me at all, man.

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Bitch, please. Georgetown is west and north of Foggy Bottom. Rosslyn is west and south. It might make sense to put a station at the Watergate, if it weren't a couple of blocks from the Foggy Bottom station, but you wouldn't tell anyone that the Watergate is in Georgetown.

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And with good reason!

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First designed for tourists, because they had to get Congress to appropriate the funds, but designed for commuters from VA and MD rather to get people around within DC.

Buck up, little capitalist
 

This was too long to hold my interest, but probably should be read by anyone who thinks that uncertainty about Obama's socialist spending, taxes and regulation are the source of are economic woes.

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but in a vacuum a station on M near the upper end of the shopping/bar district would make sense.

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Euro-style pubs, reasonably authentic, and packed with hot chicks who all end up being married, gay, generally unapproachable, too young for you, or some combination of the above.

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If anyone is pondering, and you know DC, far and away my favorite place there was the Saloon.

So, basically, no. Few women at all.

Although a friend and I did stop by a nearby wine bar from time to time after figuring out that it was packed with women, so I guess that's closer to your image.

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Absolutely.

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a place where everyone has to talk, even those with nothing to say? Monday I was at the moth with a story that would have made me the first Detroit/NY winner, if I only got called. Motherfuckers volunteered and were called that had no story whatsoever. One short dicked punk told the story of his man crush chasing Bruce Springsteen around when he was still playing bars. Do you understand I put several hours into preparing and didn't get called because of half wits being encouraged to talk when they should STFU and listen?

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No one has ever been kicked out of the Saloon for sitting quietly with their beer.

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Archibald's?

Sorta good
 

Illustration of the the government anti-government protesters used. But I think their signs alone are an even greater indictment.
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Phone lines and power lines are typically provided by private utilities.

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Yeah, well, I didn't make it, but power for the street light is power paid for by the government.

I go nothing on the phone line.

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Yeah, uh, you might want to cite the last paragraph of the piece, which explains it is not a mere fabrication, as you suggest. That, in fact, residents were opposed to the idea, but that there was never a formal proposal for a metro stop to be voted on. And that historians have argued, in a published work, that had a proposed metro stop been put to a vote, it likely would have been voted down.

I'm not accusing you of being disingenuous, but your characterization is a unjustifiably blunt.

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Hence, I noted that SF, Boston, DC and NYC are exceptions. I think housing there will remain robust, and those cities will continue to flourish. If you reread what I wrote, I think the point's made several times.

I always offer the caveat. Once one has dealt with lawyers for even a month, he realizes, this is always necessary.

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I am very, very familiar with those kind of Georgetown residents, and can tell you stories, but -- but -- it is a myth that they got Metro to change its plans.

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Leaving aside that I see both as quite appealing cities, why are SF and Boston immune? NY has finance, and DC has government, and neither of those things is going away.

I'm optimistic about high tech and med tech, but I don't see either as unquestionably enduring or necessarily marking SF and Boston as particularly unique. Should Seattle be on your safe list too? NC Research Triangle? Dallas? Houston? Chicago?

In fact, as I think about it, your hypothesis really only makes sense for the former industrial cities of the NE that have been going through this cycle for at least 50 years. And Philly still has Big Pharma.

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I'm hopeful that LA will survive based on the strength of the entertainment industry, at its core through picturesque locations for porn shoots.

Yes, YouPorn and its ilk have eviscerated the porn industry, but the high end stuff won't go away completely. After all, not everything can be shot in Sebby's basement.

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Yeah, but all that stuff is already built. Why should we pay more taxes now?

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"always"? Hell no. Go back and look at some of your more dramatic "the apocalypse is coming" posts.

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In general, across the country, I think urban residential real estate will outperform suburban residential real estate over the next five, ten or fifteen years. I've seen it over the last five years in the market I know best -- the farther out you go, the more prices took a hit between 2005 and 2010, but if you bought in 2005 in the city you were still ahead in 2010. The farther out you are, the more you are "taxed" by congestion and higher fuel prices, and those things are only going to get worse.

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I don't think it's just congestion and higher fuel prices. Urban real estate has a scarcity advantage as well, especially in places like DC, where there are big hurdles to adding capacity.

It doesn't take much beyond a farmer willing to sell to get a new exurb development going.

In fact, I was thinking of picking up some property in Detroit. That market has to have hit bottom, right???

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How are you "taxed" by congestion farther out? I understand the fuel thing, though you're conveniently forgetting the garaging of the vehicle thing that offsets it in the city, but all the congestion is what you're avoiding by living in the real America.

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I don't know. How much are they willing to pay you to live there?

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Huh? It's you real Americans driving to and from work who experience the worst of the congestion. It's often called "rush hour."

Also, if you want to park by your office during the day on weekdays, you are paying the most for parking too.

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The point to exurbs is NOT going to the city constantly, but now I see the falacious assumptions being made.

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Says he whose office is downtown.

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Because you increasingly have to drive on congested roads to get to your job, school, shopping, etc. We're not improving the transportation infrastructure.

I'm not saying there's more congestion in the suburbs than the cities. But it's getting worse faster there than in the cities.

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Yes, but I am actually in the office about 2-3 days a week right now, and can cut that back even more. (I'm also still in the near burbs, but that story is longgggg and I'm hoping the solution not too far out).