DC: America's Coolest City

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Every city aint for everybody.
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I love NY.

I'm sure DC has it's perks.
 
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Anybody else checked out that Maryland Live Casino yet? I went in there Friday night.....:dwillhuh::what::whoo: @ the table minimums. It's more expensive to play there than anywhere in Vegas. Every seat was packed though...so until another casino opens in the area...they will continue raping pockets

I work at Maryland Live, that place brings the worst out of people. I seen so much since I started working there. The horseshoe casino in Bmore opens Aug 26.
 

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Why would I leave? Born and raised in Northern VA, I've seen the whole area go through it's paces and changes.

The opportunity potential between all three regions is phenomenal, and I'm far too connected around here to want to live anywhere else.
Were you in the trenches in dc when dc was still dc?

I didnt think so

You see how they work tho?

Everyone else is the problem, not themselves.
 
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The internet went crazy this week when Forbes named DC America's Coolest City(http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincar...d-c-tops-our-list-of-americas-coolest-cities/) New Yorkers and Angelenos went on full joke mode clowning on what they think they know about DC....but in terms of livability, culture, food, activities, higher learning....I think Forbes got it right.

I grew up in this area and remember how it used to look during the early 90s....shyt wasn't pretty. Since then, the city has
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'ed many neighborhoods(they got Georgia Ave now?!? :damn:), which for good or bad has brought tons of new restaurants and bars all over the city.

The bikeshare program makes getting around the city easy and affordable. Some of the dedicated bike lanes had me feeling like I was in Amsterdam
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. I came up for the weekend and am staying in a hotel near the convention center. I've been able to leave my car parked the whole time and get everywhere I need to on a bike.

Weed was just decriminalized and the city's medical marijuana is just taking off. I copped some loud near Dupont yesterday, walked down to Rock Creek Park, and went to Pluto at one of one the most peaceful spots right in the middle of the city.
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Last night, I was wandering around U st...came up on a random gogo/brass band partying right on the sidewalk.

I love living in Los Angeles, but cotdammit if I don't miss the DC ur-rea:to:

Which would you say is better dc or la?

I wanna move to Cali so bad y'all got all the best shyt :noah:
 
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Love the city but DMV nikkas are strange I'm sorry like you nikkas are funny, but w/o a doubt the strangest people I know have been from the DMV and that's coming from a Bay Area nikka lol but that's mainly from my age group late teens early 20's I haven't met an old head dc nikka but yeah y'all young nikkas weirdos
Can't lie we are weird and hostile sometimes :heh:
 

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it can be interesting place for sure (fukkery in the details included) .......nonetheless, they just added last month the first leg of the Silver Line subway that when completed will go out to Dulles Airport .... right now it goes to Reston and Tysons Corner....so a good chunk of Northern Virginia having access to DC and vice versa via rail with no traffic jams necessary...

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DC is a shell of itself. Gentrification has removed its soul.
Yeah I definitely have to agree... They are taking away a ton of black culture. But real talk they've built up some shytty places too. H Street is real nice now... that joint used to be nothing but abandoned buildings and crackheads... now its nice bars, restaurants, and crackheads
 

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I will be going out to DuPont circle tonight.
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Just because...

You must like that :wrist: shyt, why not go to Logan Circle too while you're at it. :laugh:

Yeah I definitely have to agree... They are taking away a ton of black culture. But real talk they've built up some shytty places too. H Street is real nice now... that joint used to be nothing but abandoned buildings and crackheads... now its nice bars, restaurants, and crackheads

Breh, I remember just in 2011 that strip was a fukkin dump. Them gentrifiers work fast as fukk, they never did get rid of the fiends tho and some of the old businesses are still there. I knew somebody that lived on 8th street off H so I'd be around there from time to time, the NY fried chicken spot down H Street good as fukk I swore that shyt off but that's one of the few places I'd still cop from.
 

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You must like that :wrist: shyt, why not go to Logan Circle too while you're at it. :laugh:



Breh, I remember just in 2011 that strip was a fukkin dump. Them gentrifiers work fast as fukk, they never did get rid of the fiends tho and some of the old businesses are still there. I knew somebody that lived on 8th street off H so I'd be around there from time to time, the NY fried chicken spot down H Street good as fukk I swore that shyt off but that's one of the few places I'd still cop from.


Dupont Circle has a fruity history, but the gentrification has pretty much made it truly cosmopolitan place, with everything and everybody going through there (students, homeless, tourists, professionals, artsy types). And that was when I was in DC 6 years ago... You could catch me on the chess tables playing against people from all over the world ... good times.

H20 on the waterfront was that spot though...the sheer number of bad women in one spot was :mindblown: coming from North Carolina ..then throw in pretty and thick Ethiopians ..... :wow:.

DC/Bmore/NOVA is a great place to be a young professional or continuing your education .....
 
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Were you in the trenches in dc when dc was still dc?

I didnt think so

You see how they work tho?

Everyone else is the problem, not themselves.

Never said I was :manny: Doesn't mean I couldn't still see DC for what it was and how things were before, and even appreciate it before. I'm professionally connected to many people that have changed DC over the last decade, so you could argue that I'm apart of it all that has transpired.
 
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