[jonstewart]

Strongly advise against living in NoVA. It’s extremely segregated and parochial. Do you like the Cheesecake Factory and frat boys? Then you’ll love Arlington. I throw up in my mouth a little whenever I venture across the Potomac (I live in Mount Pleasant in DC).

[torstenvl]

I don't think I could have posted a better advertisement for Virginia. Thanks!

Virginia is for lovers. DC is for haters. Don't live in the District unless you want to surround yourself with people who "throw up in [their] mouth a little" when they think about interacting with people from a different walk of life.

[rhino369]

DC attracts the higher end culinary restaurants--the sort of place an upper middle class person can afford to eat at once a month or less. But you are fooling yourself if you think the tiers of restaurants below that are any better in the district. Both are worse than food scenes in real cities.

And for the places you are paying 200/person for dinner--people in Arlington aren't much (or at all) further than people in NE.

And you are fooling yourself if you think the people living in old town are much different than people in Logan Circle. Or people in courthouse are different than people in navy yard.