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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	You're excused....
	Date:	2/11/2011 12:01:18 PM

Well, I worked for the federal government not the DC government, but no, I didn't live in DC and none of my jobs were located in DC. (The Pentagon is actually in Arlington, VA.) When I began and then ended my career working in the Northern VA suburbs.

But, to your point, there are some very nice areas in DC. It's not all Southeast, which is probably the area that you think of when you think of "inner city" DC. I would not live in the "projects". But, the people that own Southern Star grooming and boarding on 259, both lived and worked in DC (for the FAA).

And if my employer had required me to live in DC,then I guess I would have done so.

I understand your point about democratic city governments. I really don't think it is the party that is the problem, but the fact that much depends on the intelligence and the experience of those that hold those offices. I often think that mayoral and other city appointments are the "first time" experiences for those that aspire to governorships or national office. But, I look at the democrat that is running Newark NJ, and who is working well with it's Republican governor and making great strides in Newark (which really is the armpit, everyone says).
And I think corruption is a huge problem at the city level.
In DC, after the diaster that was Marion Berry, Sharon Pratt Kelly tried to fix DC, only to find out that federal law would not permit her to actually fire those do-nothing employees, that suck the life out of the city.