Living in a walkable neighborhood is the reason my car stays in a garage.

Metro is the reason I own one in the first place.

Agreed.

My late wife and I bought our last house specifically because it was walking distance to a Green Line metro station while still being a short drive to her workplace.

I used to only drive to Home Depot / Lowes and maybe the grocery store, and 99% of those trips were on the weekend.

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I drive maybe once or twice a month. If it weren't for the metro i would probably drive a couple times a day. The metro is a big part of the reason i moved here.

someday i will convince my family to move downtown and the first thing i will do is turn my car into scraps

Those were the first models they tried. The new saloon style doors are very tough to jump. Should be installed on all stations within a year.

Same. I take the metro every day to work. Car is just for the weekend basically

Rockville, but you’d have to drive

I live out in the ‘burbs. The Metro saves me a ton of driving in every day. I don’t have one of those fancy WFH jobs.

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L’ardente and reveler’s hour are my picks

This post and the comments under the thread break my heart. I’m so sorry this happened to you and continues to happen to others in this city. If I ever see something, I will stand with the victims and try to help them get to a safe space.

The news reports from the day they were installed show people jumping them.

I'm Eddie Cano does some really good stuff: https://imeddiecano.com/

I haven't been in ages, but Giovanni's Trattu just south of Dupont has had great pasta whenever I've been in the past: https://www.giovannistrattudc.com/

Same !

It’s also a really beautiful space.

S'floglina is pretty good. I am not sure if pasta aficionados love it, but it is in our rotation of resturants

same. Between metro/uber/turo I’m still saving more money than I would if I was paying for gas/parking/insurance/and all the fun unexpected expenses with a car

Love it!

Ah, that's disappointing . . . I thought we were getting a new independently-owned venue.

For me it’s a toss up between The Red Hen in NW DC and Filomena in Georgetown. Filomena is more traditional and expensive. But the portions are huge/family style. The Red Hen is a little more modern.

Honorable mentions to Rose’s Luxury near Eastern Market. It’s not technically Italian but they always have modern pasta dishes on the menu (plus they give you free little make your own cacio e pepe kits when you leave).

Lupo Marino, it’s kind of pricy for what you get but IMO is best Italian option at the wharf/beats Officina.

Osteria Morini in the navy yard is pretty good, their cheese board is the best thing there imo though.

Stellina Pizzeria, is mostly known for their pizza but the pasta there is actually pretty good too - specifically their cacio e pepe

Legal fees I have to admit I kind of memory holed at this point. The advice I got suggested I should probably sue (the seller had been sued a couple times before but I couldn't find much in the way of results) but the need to do the work ASAP meant I might end up paying twice. I was extremely wary of lawyers and had no faith they'd do anything but screw me over more than I had been.

Total costs were probably in the range 40K range.

I can also recommend a structural residential engineer if you need a third party eye to anything a vendor may propose/get your own design. RESolutions https://www.res-dc.com/

You got all the DC liberals mad with this one. I guess they realized they were closer to the right than they thought and got hurt.

Actively engaging in your community and supporting economic policies that actually help people, not throwing more police in and voting status quo, is the start of the solution.

I had to file as a non resident this time through paper and got it in less than a week faster than VAs electronic refund lol

I’m not complaining about the increase itself, just the fact I wasn’t notified within the contractural time frame. Also though, annual increases based on CPI is not in my lease agreement. Lol.