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we love dc your life beyond the capitol we love dc your life beyond the capitol main menu skip to primary content skip to secondary content home about authors advertise suggest a story food truck tracker home the features why i still love dc by tom bridge 1 00 pm 22 apr 2015 why i still love dc tom brookland sign mr tindc when i started writing about dc more than ten years ago now it was a reflex i had decided that i was going to make the best of my time here i decided that this was a place to love and that i should love it here and so i went out to find all the things i loved about dc there were many of us at that old site that wrote because this city had made a personal connection with us that it was a part of our makeup as we love dc came into being we were doing so at the curl of the wave that was a new dc adrian fenty was mayor everyone was talking about how dc was changing growing building the williams administration though decidedly unsexy had made dc a place that could receive investment again that could build a tax base that could increase services again dc wasn t the inner city dc was just the city the last ten years have been a major change for the city not a change that s been just for the good there s been a lot of dc history that s been swept out past the boundary stones and it was exciting to be here and watch it happen old vacant storefronts became award winning bars breweries appeared for the first time in almost a century industry was possible in a city that was largely focused around political capital dc has proven and those are the things that have excited me most about the last ten years we make things here we make beer we make bikes we even make weed now we make things we re not just an economy of accidental convenience we re an economy of industry of confluence of vision continue reading tags brookland why i still love dc the features why i still love dc by jenn larsen 1 00 pm 21 apr 2015 why i still love dc jenn eat the rich dc oyster bar jenn larsen at the end of 2013 i wrote what i thought was my ultimate love letter to dc filled with the moments that had sustained me during my struggle with a life threatening illness it was a thank you to the city i d lived in for over two decades yet i also suspected at the time that it might be a farewell not because i was losing that struggle but because i thought i was moving of course i was incorrect life being a lesson in derailment and the power of creative disruption my dc in 2013 turned out to be the penultimate love letter and while i spent most of 2014 investigating another city by the end of that year i was back where i started so here we are dc you still have me and yet the time to leave our beloved site has come to pass so i find myself writing another love letter one that s slightly bittersweet but don t worry i always rally by the end if there s any lesson i ve learned over the past three years of incredible life change and regeneration it s this the story never ends you may think you have come to the end of your journey but it s only a chapter or an act in a play that continues on and on just as cities never stop evolving never stop rising only to fall and rise again if not in actuality then in the mind maybe that s why there are so many discarded drafts of my why i still love dc they litter my mind my desk my laptop piling up like sediment in an archeological site rather as my discarded selves litter the city itself so many experiences haunting this corner and then the next i feel like scheherazade and worry that if i ever finish the tale i ll lose my head i began to wonder if all the difficulty writing it meant that i no longer loved dc the way i used to and frankly yes it s true but isn t that as it should be after so many years love s not an ever fixed mark no matter what shakespeare said he knew better anyway love must change always otherwise it calcifies and your city crumbles into dust there s a narrative to my love story that s already established here in other pieces at we love dc i moved here for the architecture the cherry blossoms the subculture politicos ignore the fact that it wasn t new york or boston the other cities which courted me but provided an escape from my new england youth that dc was supposed to be just a way station on the way to london that i didn t leave because i unexpectedly fell in love with its music scene with its theaters and a thriving community of artists bought a house brought it back to life that was the first act in another act life went haywire my heart stopped several times i regenerated in many ways but haunted my old life in others i was poised to escape but grounded in limbo i wasn t as certain about my love anymore we ll talk about that chapter another time somewhere else i could tell you about all my other selves wandering dc continue reading tags showcase why i still love dc why i love dc the features why i still love dc by rachel levitin 8 00 am 08 apr 2015 why we love sara tags why i still love dc why i love dc why i still love dc by rebecca 1 00 pm 06 apr 2015 why i still love dc rebecca architect of the capitol mohamad i came to our fair city a fresh faced college graduate who knew only one thing about her move down here i definitely did not want to work in politics thinking back i only vaguely recall who that girl was or what she was thinking or even what made her happy despite twenty odd years under my belt i was new to the world and pretty much had zero life experiences to learn and grow from it s said that childhood and adolescence are the most formidable years of your life and while it s fruitless to argue that those years aren t important for me my most formidable years my 20s and early 30s happened right here in dc more profoundly put i truly grew up in this city lilone xmeeksx the last 9 years here have had their ups and downs their failures their simple pleasures their soul crushing heart breaking events their depressive episodes when i literally had to scrap myself off the floor their serendipitous meetings their triumphant fist in the air celebrations and a whole hell of lot of in betweens at the center of it all is dc its people its culture its evolution its bars its opportunities its music its heartbeat are all at the crux of this personal growth and discovery continue reading tags why i still love dc why i love dc the features why i still love dc by fedward 1 00 pm 03 apr 2015 why i still love dc fedward you are here the author when i moved to the washington area in 1998 it wasn t for any single good reason i had a few reasons that added up to something but i can t say my logic was in any way sound mostly i was 27 years old and felt like i d exhausted my opportunities in my home town i didn t have anything tying me down and i figured i had enough connections here that i could make a go of it when people asked me i d say that everyone else lived in dc for four years so i thought i d give it a shot silhouettes some guy i had a friend who lived in a group house on the hill and she idly said she was thinking of moving out but she needed a roommate i told her i d arrive in august and she should find us a place to live that first year we lived in a rented house in crystal city but a couple weeks after metro s columbia heights station opened up i moved into an apartment a few blocks away where i lived for ten of those four years first toast a homeowner seventeen years later i m a married homeowner and i have a different glib answer about why it would be impossible for me to leave i can never live anywhere with fewer than three airports given the choice i d never use any of them but national but i ll fly out of dulles or bwi if the itinerary is right discovery 28 me but that doesn t really answer the question of why i still love dc when i came to dc i found a culture that didn t revolve around the business of government my friends aren t lobbyists or politicians i ve come to know a few congressional staffers and lifetime feds over the years not because of their answer to the question so what do you do but because of the things they do when they re not on the hill drink mostly i know a few lawyers but most of them continue to prove my belief that the happiest lawyers are former lawyers continue reading tags why i still love dc why i love dc essential dc people the features where we live why i still love dc by ben h rome 1 00 pm 02 apr 2015 why i still love dc ben dsc_0189 ben r full disclosure i really wanted to title this article why i still love dc take two or ten but jenn wouldn t let me something about ruining the pattern or other such reasonable editorial argument if you re a long time follower of we love dc you ll know i wrote a similarly titled piece back in 2013 after this site s fifth anniversary and then suddenly here we are not two years later and the party s over back in the fall when it was discussed about putting the old gal to rest i didn t really want to let it go i d hoped that a fresh generation newer or older blood would pick up our baton and sally forth but alas and unlike our lovely congressmen and senators on the hill our grand lady would not blather on about nothing limping towards digital obscurity and i m okay with that this will be my 647th and final post here at we love dc and for giggles that s about half a million words i never thought i d be saying good bye both to our readers and to the site it s a bittersweet milestone for me particularly 1dsc_0335 ben r 2015 marks ten years half my married life since i moved to the metro dc area my wife and i escaped a wretched employment outlook in pittsburgh when the international spy museum took a chance and hired me to help run their retail shop brenda young my manager at the time and she s still there i believe was a true district resident from capitol heights and during our downtime in the office would tell me all about this city and its secrets actually considering where i worked and who i rubbed shoulders with on a frequent basis i learned about a lot of secrets in the district anyway it was during my time there that i stumbled over tom and his merry band of metrobloggers i applied to write figuring i could bring a fresh behind the ears view to the team only having been here two years at that point i showed my bona fides and i was in and plunged straight into the depths of rebellion continue reading tags blogging culture dc goodbye museums smithsonian welovedc why i still love dc why i love dc writing more we love dc content why i still love dc don 30 mar 15 i confess i looked at the other pieces my cohorts wrote so far before starting this hoping they ve give me why i still love dc patrick 27 mar 15 so i have a hashtag it s called ragelikepho people have come to associate me with the hashtag to the why i still love dc joanna 26 mar 15 snow shovel 0 snow ice 1 just die already winter i hate you die winter wonderland we good you why i still love dc dave 25 mar 15 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