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This makes me happy to have just moved here. There seem to be a lot of civic-minded people taking initiative with technology.

I spent some time in Portland, which is supposed to be uber-progressive, but we didn't have as much of this sort of thing even there.

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Not to rain on your parade, but DC has lots of drawbacks too compared to a city like Portland. One of the most distressing things about DC is how little crime is segregated into neighborhoods. People get killed even in hip areas like Georgetown and Adams Morgan. Truly the egalitarian dream. There were bodies found in the Georgetown canal while I lived there.

People getting killed ANYWHERE is distressing, surely.

Surely. But when moving from one city to another, it is distressing when it becomes something that you have to worry about.

This sounds disturbingly like the complaint that "crime should not happen in places where people like ME like to go". I doubt you intended that to be a racist or classist comment, but safety shouldn't be a luxury given only to people who can afford the nice parts of town.

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