WTF happened downtown before the evening commute. It’s gonna take me like 90 min to get home. Should’ve walked

Yeah but 2nd in the whole country?! In Gen Z net migration? More than NYC, Chicago, LA? Or even places like Denver, PHX, Nashville, Austin?

Columbia, SC ranking No. 2 is surprising

Booked my first tee time of the year at East Potomac Park

You’re right but it’s still OK to enjoy today and feel happiness

I showed up to the office at 7:30 today so I could leave early and drink outside in the sun

Driver almost hit me in the crosswalk then proceeded to honk at me for crossing the street in the crosswalk. I flipped them off

Makes sense (the 2020 Census was April 2020 figures; I'm sure a lot of people left many cities since then). I meant trending up from the 2010 census

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.

I’m gonna go ahead and say a lot of shows, even some really good ones, peak within the first 2 or 3 seasons

I’m from Chicago where it is generally 10+ degrees colder than DC year-round and the sun disappears for like 5 months straight in winter. Seasonal depression there is real. Today’s weather sucks but it’s one day and mild. I’ll gladly take 40s in January

Leaving work in 55 min

The Browns were selling out games when they were 0-16. DC is too corporate/transplant/transient to support bad teams like that. I don't even know if there's a sports bar in my neighborhood.

It's an iconic venue for sure but they ruined it with the remodel. Now it looks like there's a spaceship parked on top and the Bears are likely going to be playing in a new stadium in the suburbs by 2030.

DC isn't a sports town (compared to Boston, Philly, Chicago, Cleveland, etc. it's not I'm sorry). But we do have world-class public spaces and museums. I hope they turn RFK into another park with event space (like Wolf Trap).

I'm from Chicago. Soldier Field is decent but even with the remodel (which was botched and now 20 years old) it's not a venue fit for the World Cup. There are probably 25 nicer stadiums in the NFL

And will be 102 years old in 2026

1. Snyder didn’t move the team to Landover or build FedEx Field 2. Most DC residents including me don’t want to subsidize his new stadium 3. The new stadium is better off in VA because that’s where most of the football team’s fans are anyway 4. FIFA is corrupt and where the World Cup is doesn’t really matter 5. Philly is a 2 hr train ride from Union Station and probably more fun to visit than FedEx Field

going on a holiday lunch with coworkers at unconventional diner. any recommendations?

Yeah, it’s not realistic to ask people to pay ~$4,400 rent to fund “affordable housing” for their neighbors

Yeah, even if this passes the cynic in me thinks DC would overpay to contract out all the construction work to some connected firm.

The article also doesn’t share details on how big these projects would be, the tenant split between market-rate / low income and how much the market rate tenants would have to pay (I assume a premium) to subsidize the lower income neighbors and pay back taxpayers.

I agree that encouraging new housing supply in general will help with affordability

However Puttery downtown is expensive even by DC standards. $22 for 9 holes of mini golf that takes 15 min

Fair enough