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I've lived ~3 months in many different US cities (DC, Chicago, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Boston) and DC was my least favorite. E
by qq66 15y ago
I've lived ~3 months in many different US cities (DC, Chicago, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Boston) and DC was my least favorite. Everyone there is obsessed with their proximity to the Washington power structure, which is a cold organization full of boring people.
- smhinsey 15y agoI'm not the most social person to begin with, so I gave it a lot of time, but I just totally failed to make any non-work friends because of stuff like that. I've been here for ~4 years and am so ready to get out West. Of course, it's never as easy to move that far as you'd want it to be. I remember in Cambridge I could swing downstairs to the neighborhood bar, find a stranger, and strike up a conversation. Maybe it didn't work half as well as I am recalling, but even then, it was better than DC, where it always turns to "where do you work?" And "a startup" has only slightly more cachet than "I'm unemployed." From a professional standpoint moving here has been great, but from a personal point of view, I think it's the biggest I've made.