Critical evidence of a scam right here

What is your budget? Take a month or two in coliving or a group home and find something when you are here. Spend any free time walking neighborhoods you feel safe in and look for for rent signs. Talk to people you meet.

Definitely a scam. Do not give this person your money.

Classic scam, don't even think about doing business with someone who wants a deposit before you sign a lease. You will never see that money again.

he contact me on facebook market

High quality fresh fish is worth it tho. We probably spend 15-20% of our grocery budget on 1ish good fish meal a week (largely vegetarian at home, some fish).

Oh that was a time to be alive

Yep

no, I’m not at DC atm, so I told this person that I’ll wait to be there and look at the apartment in person and then he insisted on making the deposit and if I didn’t like it he will return it to me, I don’t know, my gut says its a scam and if not, something worse

Probably

TBF the line at the Foggy bottom WF is often bananas.

I'm one person and I probably average like $30-$35 a week and I shop at whole foods. I only need to feed myself for dinner only. I'm fortunate enough to work in the restaurant industry that I get fed during the day.

True, but the social-media bubbles and COVID lockdowns really are a new phenomenon that did not exist a decade ago. And I'm older than many folks here (late Gen Xer/early Millennial) so I've been saying "kids these days" for a while now.

$600

Well the kids in NE aren't saints either, so the title made a lot of sense none the less.

The safest best for someone that has to ask such a question on Reddit is a realtor. Plain and simple.

I mean, that's sort of 20 years of data too.

There are 60 something free museum or museum like activities here to do, and each of those museums offer a host of free activities every month, highly recommend attending them if you don’t have plans already.

Networking is HUGE here, but don’t like that dictate your life and your mental health. Everyone here is doing something spectacular they can’t want to tell you about, don’t let comparison be the killer of your joy.

The city has crazy amounts of free events, tons of them multicultural or at the least a different culture than yours (US or otherwise). Attend them, broaden your horizons.

You’ll never run out of food options, you can really eat all around the globe here.

Living in DC or any DC adjacent city/town, get a library card. You can get a card for literally every library system adjacent to dc in addition to dc and the library of Congress. The resources these places offer is absolutely nuts.

Last but not least, budget.

This is a bit reminiscent of the first World Trade Center attack in 1993 when some yahoos decided to bomb the building but blew themselves up when they hit a speed bump in the parking garage.

One of the recommendations was to put a central communications center in ... the World Trade Center.

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dang youngsters making such a ruckus!

Nah your just getting old. People who aren't supposed to sit in the reserved bus seats is something that's been going on since the created reserved bus seats.

Reminds me of the 20-somethings who shoplift lunch and food from the hot bar at the Foggy Bottom Whole Foods because they don't want to wait in line.

This is bs there really are good deals out there...but you have to go see the place in person ffs.

Yeah for sure three years of data points shows everything. Case closed boys. Wrap it up.

... if only kids these days would cross their legs. /s