DC: America's Coolest City

[unit321]

It was a Forbes magazine article.
My feeling is that this article really meant, Northwest DC is cool. Southeast DC??? Not cool.

 

[L&HH]

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.

If you think that's bad, a casino in Bmore will be hell to work at Im sure.

 

[JasonSJackson]

Never said I was 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.

so you are a part of the problem?

 

[Just Rod]

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 coming from North Carolina ..then throw in pretty and thick Ethiopians ..... .

DC/Bmore/NOVA is a great place to be a young professional or continuing your education .....

Club H2O was my spot like right when I turned 21... I used to be in that joint gettin it. I always hated Dream/Love so I would always hit up H2O or Heaven and Hell in Adams Morgan

 

[Just Rod]

If you think that's bad, a casino in Bmore will be hell to work at Im sure.

The going thats bout to open up at National Harbor aint gonna have them problems. You already know security gonna be in there deep and they going to have some high ass minimums

 

[BezO]

Not mad at this. I like it here.

But I'd bump it down at least below NYC. And I'd except arguments from LA & SF.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

The going thats bout to open up at National Harbor aint gonna have them problems. You already know security gonna be in there deep and they going to have some high ass minimums

lol, National Harbor is inbetween big money Ft. Washington, white money Alexandria, and hood ass Oxon Hill and Southeast. Them feds gon be deep as shyt out there, hell they already jy deep as is. MGM bout to make shyt live as fukk tho. :bishop:

 

[Idaeo]

Which would you say is better dc or la?

I wanna move to Cali so bad y'all got all the best shyt

. I'd say Cali because there's more options....and the weather puts it over the top.

It was a Forbes magazine article.
My feeling is that this article really meant, Northwest DC is cool. Southeast DC??? Not cool.

the area around Nats stadium is SE and it looks like a new world compared to what it looked like 15 years ago...and they're developing a lot along MLK over in anacostia .

 

[Big Blue]

I fukking hate gogo music. But DC is the only place where I can see myself living that's outside NYC.

 

[unit321]

the area around Nats stadium is SE and it looks like a new world compared to what it looked like 15 years ago...and they're developing a lot along MLK over in anacostia .

I heard about that development. Didn't know how it all turned out. When I was last in Maryland, the Nationals were still playing in RFK Stadium.

 

[mastermind]

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

'ed many neighborhoods(they got Georgia Ave now?!? ), 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

. 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.

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

thats not a gogo band, its Brass Connection.


DC has gotten real corny, but then so has the rest of America.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Does DC have its own police or does the military serve as police too?

 

[L&HH]

thats not a gogo band, its Brass Connection.


DC has gotten real corny, but then so has the rest of America.

I was going to say, that doesn't sound like the gogo I grew up on

 

[mastermind]

DC is a shell of itself. Gentrification has removed its soul.

yup

 

[mastermind]

but yes, SE is where you would go if you wanna see the "old DC" complete with dippas and all lol (round Malcom X park lol)

Malcolm X park is in NW

and the area around the park is the height of soul less, swagless people.