Maroon 5... yeah!So you can just imagine that as the District becomes more and more trendy, I get more and more self-righteous about it. Maybe it's the Obama-factor, or maybe it's all in my head, but it does seem to me that DC is the place to be these days. I moved to DC in August of 2008 for my job, then Obama moved to DC in January of 2009 for his job, and now apparently everyone else is doing the same as well.
Evidence below.
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One of the biggest reasons DC is the place to be is because of jobs:
a) Reputable author and business professor Richard Florida named the District of Columbia the country’s best big city for recent college graduates - based on the job market and cost of living.
b) Another new survey of recent grads by job search company CareerCast.com found D.C. second only to New York City among their most desirable locations, beating out bigger cities like Los Angeles, Boston and San Francisco.
c) Nationally, unemployment for those in their late 20's reached 11% this year - the highest it's been since 1983. For those my age, in their early 20's, unemployment was at about 14%. But DC bests the trends. Overall, nationwide unemployment is about 9 percent; in the D.C. area, it's about 6 percent.
d) The CEO of a major job-placement company said people should go to Washington to look for work. "With all of the work that needs to be done to turn around this economy, and the large number of people in line to retire in D.C. in the next five years, it's not a bad place to look," the CEO said. All this is from the Washington Examiner.
e) Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine recently named DC the third-best city in the country for employment - the DC-metro area boosted by a spendthrift federal government and a consistent 16-million tourists annually.
f) The Washingtonian recently compiled a list of the Top Reasons to Love DC. Number 7 was - you guessed it - JOBS!
People work here!=======================
Apparently TV people need jobs too, and DC is becoming the place to go for Reality TV:
a) At first it was just Newsweek doing a reality TV spoof called "The District"
b) And then we heard that MTV's Real World would be in DC.
c) And then we heard that BRAVO's Real Housewives series might be coming to DC.
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I may be jumping on the 'move to D.C. to find a job' bandwagon, but I also discovered Harry Potter before any of you. So there!
I discovered Goosebumps before any of you.
I discovered Buffy before any of you.
Really? Because I recall adoring this movie starring Kristy Swanson that I saw when I was 9 years old.
I discovered The Sims before any of you. And Jimmy Eat World. Sucksssssss.
Also DC is an awesome city and I'm glad it's getting trendy publicity... because when I first moved here my Georgia friend chose to continue telling her friends that I lived in California because it was so much cooler. :(
what NOW Cali!!!
@ David - Heh, I was referring to the series following, but if we're counting the botched, 90's pop-corn flick I'd be forced to concede, probably to a lot of people. 'Cause, you know, it came out in '92 and I was 5 or 6. But, when Buffy hit TV I'd been there since day one. Scouts honor (or something similar).
@B-money - I'd challenge your Sims claim. I just don't know how. But, I'm gonna try anyway. CHALLENGE!
I would have tried to claim "Animorphs," but I'm less confident about that.
@John - oh it's ON.
I read an article about The Sims in the back pages of my local newspaper at least a year and a half before the game came out or was advertised... maybe longer; long enough for me to think the news was wrong or I missed its release.
@ Britagne - DAMMIT!
@Oz - I've got Animorphs on lockdown. Don't even front.
@ali - Actually, unless they changed publishers way early on, probably not. I remember them being advertised in a magazine (Books on Wheels? Scholastic Book Fair, maybe? It's hazy.) and buying the first one when it came out.
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