Take Metro. It won't get stuck in traffic.

Take the metro.

Souvenir sodas are free refills.

$200-300+ per month

You make $95k a year and you essentially want to be homeless? You can definitely find a decent studio or 1BR within a decent budget. No need to spend half your income. If you really want to save though you can find a roomate. r/DCforRent and the DMV For Rent Facebook group would probably be a good starting place. I would also join the neighborhood facebook groups where you think you might want to live as I often see requests for roomates pop up in those as well.

If you want to live in your car then more power to you, but it seems like a very extreme solution IMO. Best of luck to you.

Becuase restaurants are businesses and businesses pay taxes. It's a much better use of land than the net cost drain street parking is on the city.

DC isn't really building any of the 5 over 1 apartments that you're referring to by "paper mache". That's more of a suburban thing. The luxury apartments going up all around the city are concrete, brick, and steel and will likely stand the test of time just fine.

The 5 over 1 stick built complexes popping up along the fringes of downtowns across the US? Yeah those will be trash in less than a decade.

It barely snows at all here. So when it does, we basically just shut the city down and wait for it to melt off.

His family has asked for it to remain peaceful, despite the supposed extremely graphic nature of the video to be released tonight.

Hopefully people listen, but I don't have high hopes. Burning our cities and local businesses to the ground all across the country doesn't accomplish anything.

Edit: For those that don't know, Alamo just started Discount Tuesdays last week. That's a hefty discount at the DC Area locations.

https://drafthouse.com/dc-metro-area/offers

From our experience at many Alamo's, Bryant Street appears to be the armpit of Alamo Drafthouses. Which sucks because they have such a prime location and great seating/layout.

Nothing compares to the original ones in Austin, but the new Crystal City location is pretty good. Sometimes you get staff that is pretty clearly still in training, but most of the time they're good. For big premieres, new releases, and movie parties they generally have their A team staff working as we've never had any issues there.

Our biggest issue has been with talking/texting despite the policy. It's a culture change we've seen in theaters in general over the last few years and we HATE it.

Our experience at Crystal City has been hit and miss, but still night and day from Bryant Street if that says anything. I'll give them a pass for a while as they even note during the previews that they are still training new staff.

Our main issue with Crystal City, and theaters in general the last couple years, seems to be with distractions and talking. One of the main reasons we go to Alamo is for the zero tolerance policy. I like that it exists, but having to be distracted talking with waiters to get people kicked out every single time we go kinda ruins the experience. We've been opting more and more to watch things at home, unfortunately. Prior to covid, we went to theaters multiple times a week a lot.

Potomac Ave is closer as the crow flies, but they're both a decent walk. About a mile.

As an alternate option, you can hop on the EM-LP Circulator bus from either Navy Yard (you want EM direction) or Eastern Market (one more stop on orange, you want LP direction). It will drop you at 8th and M which is only a few blocks (0.25 mile) down M St to get to Maritime Plaza. From Potomac Ave, you have to walk nearly all the way to 8th St anyways and then backtrack to get across the traintracks/freeway.

Circulator comes every 10 minutes and is free when transferring from Metro.

Walk to the taxi stand, get a cab. Much cheaper and quicker than uber.

Did you call their company and report them?

Really checking off those big ticket important items this session huh.

NYC would be my first choice. If you can avoid driving, the train/bus makes the trip that much more enjoyable. Amtrak drops you center of the city and you can use your feet and public transit to get around easily from there.

Philly and Boston both great as well. But hard to beat NYC if you've never been.

The original concept was fantastic. I've been multiple times in Austin, TX where they started and it was great. No talking and phone use policy is STRICTLY enforced. Like no warning, you get caught you're out. Loved it. And the serving staff lived up to the "sneaky ninja" reputation that Alamo claims all locations should have. No walking standing up, crouching only. If they need a clarification on an order, they'd write it on a card for you, not talk during the movie. So it really wasn't distracting at all. Best movie experience I've ever had. And most of the time the employees were all cinema buffs and understood their target audience. Not just off the street servers.

These newer locations though appear to be out of touch with that though. Bringing your order and literally standing up in front of you blocking the screen asking if this is yours. Talking to customers regularly during the film at full volume. And having a more laxxed no talking/phone use policy. We've had to report multiple people and they just get multiple warnings by a manager.

I'm a huge cinema lover. We used to see nearly every movie we watched in a proper theater. These days, in doing more and more to my living room to make it feel like a home theater and staying home. Paying $20/per to go and just be annoyed the entire film by both staff and other patrons just doesn't do it for me.

Have had mixed experiences at the RI Ave location. They can't seem to find staff that understand Alamo's typical demographic or simply don't care.

The Crystal City location that just opened has been much better. There's still a lot of staff training so there have been a few hiccups. But none of the turnover and downright rude employees that we experienced at RI Ave. I guess time will tell if it follows the same path.

If I remember right, 13-16 is the most popular age for kids to rebel and disappear from home for a few days. So the majority of these cases solve themselves when the kid decides to eventually come home.

All the time that I fly in and out of DCA every year and I've never gotten the Anacostia river approach/departure. Always North/South Potomac. Cool to see a different perspective. The visual approach from the North never gets old though!

As I said in another comment, the fear is founded as takeoff is much more dangerous than landing. It just seems counterintuitive to me.

Wife and I travel for work regularly. Both have used the app every time without a single incident here and in NYC.

Guess we've just been lucky? Idk

Edit: if you have a severe fear of flying, maybe don't read the below!

Aerospace engineer and hobbyist pilot. So I agree with that pilot, but I just intuitively thought most people feared landings.

Landing, at least in good weather, is very simple. There's not a lot that can catastrophically go wrong. Once you're lined up with the runway and on glideslope in, you can glide in and control your lift and speed with flaps and air brakes even if your engines quit. You already have momentum, altitude, and energy to use to get you out of most situations.

Taking off, you have no altitude, no speed, etc to work with. If an engine quits, the other has to go full throttle just to keep you in the air let alone climb. Plus, you just left the runway, so there's usually no where to land in front of you and turning is where you lose most of your altitude and energy. On long haul flights, you're also usually too heavy to go back and land right away, as most commercial aircraft landing gear can handle significantly more weight on takeoff than landing. In general, there's just a lot more consequences when things go wrong on takeoff than landing.

On landing, if all else fails a pilot can "deadstick" glide it somewhere. On takeoff, if everything goes wrong, the plane turns into a brick.

Strong headwind means you don't need a very long runway!

>mostly I just don’t love taking off, but landing doesn’t bother me much these days

I would've guessed the opposite for most people with a fear of flying. What about taking off scares you?

Download the curb app. Get a taxi. Usually way cheaper than Uber/Lyft.