If you're literally describing "old DC" as just pre-pandemic, then I don't know what to tell you. For the overwhelming majority of people, let alone the people that frequent this sub, it's the same thing, just more expensive.

You being so anxious that you can't walk between two safe NW neighborhoods doesn't change that. So what you need to change is either your media consumption that has you believing there's a murderer around every corner, or the posts you read here (just block crime post trolls, you'll never see them anywhere else).

DC proper is geographically limited and also limited in terms of construction height so this makes sense. BTW DC's population technically peaked in the 1950 census at ~800K so there's room for more people here. The population in the 2020 census was 689K but trending up.

The VI program is effectively a cushy no-show jobs program for convicted violent felons. It's an insane use of taxpayer funds, especially as we're short hundreds of cops.

True, but we've usually had our first snowstorm by now. With the big ones coming in March.

Older buildings that have been renovated to include modern appliances/features are the best of both worlds

Meanwhile in DC shooting a man in broad daylight while he is carrying his 5month and 6 year old is only 13 years…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/25/jarrell-david-harris-sedrick-miller-sentencing/

Sickening.

Colada Shop is fun and affordable. Mi Vida is overpriced, but the food is alright. I know someone else suggested Masala Art, but tbh I went there once before an Arena Show and swore never again. Blandest Indian food and weirdest service I've ever had in my life

Google News finds a number of articles confirming that an off duty (but vest-wearing) Safe Passage worker was shot. I read the top three, and there was no reference to Violence Interrupters.

who named these units? Miles Bron of the Glass Onion?

Born and raised in DC. Parents moved out to the burbs in 1975 because living in Southeast was starting to get sketchy and the schools were terrible and Marion Barry was Marion Barry. Spent my teen years in the '80s going to punk shows at the old 930 Club and DCSPACE and the Wilson Center and it was great: the whole town shut down at 7pm and we had it all to ourselves and we never felt unsafe because the real violent crime was in Wards 7 & 8. Yeah, you had sex workers walking 14th Street into the '90s, but they didn't give us any trouble. Post COVID DC means the crime isn't localized anymore; it's in every ward. I'd suggest it all started when Lanier disbanded the vice squads to focus on the high end drug dealers, leaving the street level crews to fend for themselves. So a decade later, with pot legal, those crews are fighting over smaller territories for fewer dollars. DC SHOULD be able to prosecute the top ten percent of criminals committing the 60% of the violent crime AND provide intervention for those kids before they become repeat offenders, but my lifetime in DC has shown me they're incapable of being able to chew gum and walk at the same time.

It’s not just murder. It’s every other category of crime: armed robbery (including car jackings), assault and battery, vagrancy, vandalism, public intoxication, etc. It’s piling up.

Ever since my building instituted a new policy to require visitors to sign in at the front desk, people have reacted wonderfully - someone broke a door in a fit of rage around New Year's, and a delivery guy threatened to shoot one of the security people at the front desk.

Also, ghosting has become depressingly common in this town. Sigh.

I liked Masala Art.

Then you fit the profile. You believe that others should be forced to make sacrifices in order to achieve greater density, but at the same time you exempt yourself from such restrictions.

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't this pill essentially flood the body with estrogen?

Some super modern steroids' being used these days use estrogen instead of testosterone for muscle growth.

Gonna have some YOKED athletes on GW's campus

Guessing you aren't from here.

Save? Developers don't rent cheap . Probably 2K for a studio/room

I agree on all of this, but there are a bunch of dorm style apartments throughout dc. Their labeled as Co-Living, and it seems like there is a building in all the more popular neighborhoods

yeah cause new buildings are built like shit, everything to the barest minimum of code and using the cheapest materials and methods possible

old buildings come with their own set of issues for sure but overall ill always take the older building if theres options

Probably would cut down on any harassment as well. LOL might get a whole car to yourself.

Not for everybody, but a certain percentage of the population would love the opportunity to live in a building like this and save a bunch on rent.

It was like 2010 to 2014. Which also coincides with the exact time I was a strapping young lad with a far higher risk appetite and a not-all-the-way-developed prefrontal cortex. Surely the two can’t be related.

I got fired from my job on Wednesday. They told me why, but it was vague and refused to elaborate other than say that the decision was final. Previous I received no warnings, no P.I.P. plans, documentation, nothing. Now work is going to be very understaffed. Stay away from Stand Together, Charles Koch Foundation, Americans for Prosperity. Toxic workplace!

I have funds to live on but have to be frugal and can't eat much. Sucks but already have had a interview and going to keep grinding!

You seem to be the dramatic one here…

It's not nearly so barren or unsafe. Everybody's just very bad at judging how unsafe things are.

Edit: there are also people attempting to twist the narrative and cast the cities as much more dangerous than they actually are.