As a younger woman, I find it’s safest to ignore and keep walking. I always have airpods in (if you are uneasy, have them in with nothing playing so you can still hear). If you are comfortable, say “sorry” and keep walking

35 years just means that rent stabilization only applies to older, likely outdated and lower quality units.

Ever been to Second Story books in Rockville? It’s a dream.

For those down voting me, if you're going to do that then you could at least tell me where I'm wrong. And don't bother citing the long debunked Berkeley studies.

My friends from MD were so confused that we could walk with our toddler to a dozen parks. The thought it was hard to raise a kid in the city.

Sure if that is the best you can come up lol everything else is better in nyc then

That's a great idea & I'd love to add that feature soon :)

Read Rule 3 again.

They don’t charge if you have a DC, MD, or VA id. You may have used a different ID then.

>The states with the highest gains in overall population are Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Arizona, and South Carolina. These states are the most popular picks for each generation – except for Gen Z

Yet Columbia, SC is the 2nd city on the list. Fascinating. Guess SC's just booming. No regrets leaving SC or Columbia tho (where I grew up. Moved to DC for a while, now in Richmond)

Am I wrong or has there been like 5+ shootings/carjackings in this city everyday recently

Developer-owners are the exception. Most develop to sell immediately, or after 5-15 years. Their selling price is largely dictated by the cost of debt, land, labor, and materials, and projected NOI. Then of course, there are developers fees and market fluctuations. Of those factors, only NOI has any direct connection with rent control.

If rent control doesn't take effect until year 15-20, allows for inflationary increases + an additional x% buffer + and generally includes vacancy decontrol, which is basically every rent control/stabilization plan in the country, then there is functionally no connection with profitability to develop. Rents are unrestricted for years and minimally constrained with opportunities to increase infinitely in the future.

Rent control does have a strong connection with is developer/landlord fear mongering. What arguments like yours do is take developers at their own word rather than recognizing that they are inherently regulation averse entities that will always argue that anything that stops them from making the maximum possible profit isn't just bad for business, it's bad for society. There's some nuggets of truth there among the lies and as we do primarily rely on private market rate developers and landlords to produce and sell us housing, incentivising their profit motives can be useful. But we don't have to be rubes about it or let them walk all over us.

Agree 100%

Underoath also recorded “Erase Me” with the same producer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erase_Me_(album)

Walk on the left, stand on the right. Be a decent human with some street smarts and you’ll be fine. Also, if you plan to walk a lot just keep your head on a swivel. Don’t expect that the cross walk will always be respected. It’s a city, there’s an assload of traffic, and people get impatient.

Just added Ethiopian. Share your favorite place!

I don’t find this to be the case with folks who ask kindly to begin with

All public libraries in the DMV do.

Or they cuss you out when you do this

You have a lot of company..students and just "people". You will learn and make friends..and thrive.

No, there is a max they can increase. When a place goes vacant, you can charge 10% more than the last tenant, unless they were there more than 10 years in which case you can charge 20%. This is from the pamphlet on DHCD’s site.

Okay so I’m in the home stretch! Woohoo!

Hash house harriers does bike hashes

If you can name the nightclub that was around the corner of the McDonald’s on Columbia Road on the west side heading towards Kalorama in the 80s to 90s I owe you a few rounds over shuffleboard at Rocket Bar.

Yeah. I think that nice is (part of) what makes DC feel like home.