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12-22-2011, 09:53 AM
There's a lot of money to be made right now in the defense industry right now. I'm a vet at it, and can say most of these cats have no game. But they do have the dosh to supplement. Just another obstacle to get over.
With that being said, most of these dudes are cut from the same cloth. Prior military and combat deployment, lack of style, divorced, while enlisted. A lot of them live in the past of their glory days, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. But girls have heard the same war stories over and over.
I'm of that same cloth. But if in D.C., I'd talk about something TOTALLY different, and leave out the ME and military altogether. I would play up a greater sense of fashion, travels to less austere environments, ect.
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12-22-2011, 11:19 AM
It's definitely the economy. The dominant presence of the federal government and its booming residual industries (defense contracting, lobbying, etc) continues to draw hordes of people from around the country. Other cities simply don't have that sort of recession-proof anchor.
DC is a great place to invest in for those who have the money. It's actually quite late now, but those folks who bought up those boarded up Victorian row houses back in the day, gutted them out, and fixed them up are seeing a nice ROI. Gentrification has reached into neighborhoods that were previously unthinkable as places for young professionals to reside in.
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12-22-2011, 02:57 PM
the college crowd is still here but there amount of college kids who can go to dupont night clubs and drink themselves silly has decreased because its expensive and daddy isnt as happy to foot that bill as he was 5 years ago. i remember going to school in a small college town where $30 could get 2 people falling down drunk. that wont get you very far in DC.
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12-22-2011, 04:17 PM
there are very large parts of DC (all of Southeast, good portions of Northeast) where you dont ever want to be
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12-22-2011, 04:26 PM
I have mixed feelings about D.C.'s come up. D.C. has always been very much a colony. You have natives who were born here and do most of the laboring and administrative jobs. And you have colonists who come here and fill the professional ranks. It used to be that the colonists stuck to Georgetown and Virginia and left after a few years, but now they're starting to stay. And they're starting to buy property and open shops and restaurants and cupcake stores.
On the one hand, D.C. is starting to actually become more of a city and less of a colony. On the other hand it's becoming a city of credentialist, group-thinking, SWPL yuppies.
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12-22-2011, 08:08 PM
Gentrification = getting rid of black people
Multiculturalism = getting rid of white people
Anti-immigration = getting rid of Latinos