- Catcalling: I don’t know what it is about DC, but I have never heard the kinds of things I hear daily on the streets here anywhere else. I’ve even been followed home on several occasions. I am definitely not going to miss that.
- It’s expensive: Everything’s expensive here compared to Austin. Groceries are expensive, rent’s CRAZY expensive, restaurants are expensive, bars are ridiculously expensive…the list goes on and on.
- It’s dangerous: I apparently lived here in a safe year when it comes to violent crime and I live in a great neighborhood, but DC still has a LOT more violent crime than I’m used to.
- It gets cold: I don’t like winter. I’d not really had much experience with it before I lived here, which is why I was kind of excited about being able to wear heavy coats and scarves and such. I take it all back. Winter sucks. Period. I’ll take day after day of 100+ temperatures over having to wearing a jacket in May.
- There’s not enough good tequila in bars here. Jose Cuervo Gold is NOT TEQUILA.
- Escalefters: There is nothing more maddening than watching your train pull into the station and leave while you languish behind someone standing on the left of the escalator. STAND RIGHT WALK LEFT. What’s so hard about that? And, if someone says excuse me, MOVE! It’s so much worse than road rage. I almost lost my mind going down the Woodley Park escalator stuck behind a dude with a double stroller. DO NOT BLOCK THE ENTIRE ESCALATOR. Ever. Why? Because you’re not special. There’s something called an ELEVATOR for you folks with the double strollers AND it’s a lot safer.
- Having to go to Georgetown: The university itself is great, but it’s in a metro service black hole. Plus, the snooty people in the neighborhood were trying to mess with the route of the shuttle I took because the buses were too loud for their tastes. The university was there before you were. Get over it.
- The hours: DC is a pretty big city, so I don’t understand why everything closes so infernally early. It’s obnoxious. WMATA’s included in this. I don’t get out of school until 10 pm which rendered me entirely nocturnal for much of my stay here, so it was a total pain that everything closed so early.
- Tourists: I don’t know how to explain without sounding like a jerk, so I’m just going to leave it at that. But you’d feel the same way if you lived where I do. Promise.
- 18th Street: The clientele is loud, obnoxious and they puke EVERYWHERE.
August 10, 2009...9:47 am
DC-The Cons
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