Quote: (07-03-2013 06:48 AM)Gallego2006 Wrote:
There are some really great comments on this WaPo article entitled "D.C. is one of America's snobbiest cities, according to Travel and Leisure."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/goin...e/?hpid=z5
This one, for example:
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I have lived in the DC area for over 60 years, since I was 4 years old. I like DC and feel at home here. I can dress up and go to a nice restaurant and feel at home. I have a property in Florida and live there several months of the year. I love the climate but the people there are crude and offensive, and they don't dress up, which is fine if you like the trailer trash look. I have traveled the world, and I like a lot of other places beside DC. The reality is that DC is Hollywood for ugly people, and is probably the most pretensious places in the world. People here feel like their self worth is tied up in their job title. You can be someone working for an NGO and get nothing done because your are a director. Or you can work on the Hill and be on a committee staff and spend your time torturing bureaucrats and think you have accomplished something. Years ago a friend of mine went to Clyde's in Georgetown and was introduced to someone. The guy pulled back his jacket to look at the label of his clothier, and said, "Are you someone I shoud care about." That's DC at its pretentious, and self important worst.
Sounds about right.
I finally understand "DC is Hollywood for ugly people" now.
I always thought is was because both cities had sh*tty nightlife.
DC wasn't always so bad I guess:
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momohund
7/2/2013 5:15 PM PDT
DC used to not be snobby. It was very working class for a longtime. My Baby Boomer father grew up on MacArthur Blvd and went to Western HS (now the Duke Ellington School). He said DC back then was a nice blue collar city for both black and white people. He also used to fish in the G'town Reservoir. And when he was in high school he played the championship high school game at Griffith Stadium. He was heartbroken when the Senators left.
Also, Georgetown used to be working class too. It wasn't until the Kennedys moved in that it became upscale. Back in 1988 I begged my father to buy a townhouse in DC. They were going for like $500,000. What are they now (I don't live in the area anymore)? Between $5 and $10 mill?
I saw the Ramones at the old 9:30 Club back in the Eighties and I saw U2 came to RFK in 1987. The 9:30 Club back then was gnarly, lots of drugs, but for a young white skater that whole scene, to meet Joey and Dee Dee was awesome. I saw the Grateful Dead a few times in the late Eighties at RFK and Wolftrap or something. Dupont Circle was where you went to in order to get drugs. Do you remember the punk scene in G'town in the middle Eighties? And the bikers that hung-out at the park in G'town right near the Key Bridge? There were also a lot of cool punk places like Smash Records and Commander Salamander. You could actually by a fake ID at this one head shop in G'town I can't remember the name of. The ID was bad, but it always worked to buy beer at a 7-11 by my house. And Zeds Ethiopian cuisine was right in the heart of G'town, not further east like it is now (I heard Zeds closed...so sad). Is Nathan's still there? I would always drink there after I'd try to get to the fireworks (turned back by crowds),,,