District-Husky
Casual DC Fan
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2011
- Messages
- 465
- Reaction Score
- 732
I lived in Philadelphia for 10 years and now live in SE DC for 15 years. South Philly is not dangerous. But North Philly is a bombed out hellscape. And there is nowhere in DC that either looks like North Philly or is as bad. You’d have to go to Baltimore for that.I really, really like going to DC. My younger daughter lives in capitol hill area. She's 31 and my business trips took me there before she joined the world.
My 3/4 estimate may have been and probably was too high. I'm long enough in the tooth to have spent time in every large metro area in the U.S. So, I do not mean to disparage the city; but bad is bad and it has spots as bad as south Philly and south side Chicago. Sucks. I agree that those neighborhoods absolutely have "places to see" and.....get shot. I stay away.
My dope habit is long gone .
Go Huskies! Metro Storrs is incredible.
edit and PS: it took a minute to get the DMV thing. I was thinking cars.
DC today is over 3/4 gentrified. It’s a lovely city with great neighborhoods. The only really bad neighborhoods are EOTR and even those neighborhoods aren’t that bad. As far as homicides - almost every homicide in DC (like all NE cities) is a young black man killing another young black man. So unless you’re a young black man you’re chances of being murdered are remote.