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[otter_pops]

i think my only regret about leaving boston is that i never managed to scout out the place where ho chi minh once served as a busboy. dc takes itself more seriously as a city, with prompt and spitshine clean public transportation and a newspaper that avoids kitschy drivel. in boston people polarize everthing: you're either born here, or you're a

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[codymitchell]

>>you're either born here, or you're a foreigner. you're a democrat, or you're mitt romney. you like either the red sox, or you like the patriots. if you like neither, you're probably just a pussy.<<

Try New York, LA, Chicago, San Diego. Hell, even my time in rural PA and VT.

Everywhere there's people it's like that.

[otter_pops]

i definitely agree with you - that most people have a tendency to polarize - and i know that it happens in places other than boston. but i've never been to a place where it's more pressingly thrown in your face.. maybe i'm suffering from the glow of young love with the district of columbia, but people are different here - they don't really care about your origins? in boston there are always the brahmin undertones that make me squirm.

[codymitchell]

Different experiences, different interpretations I guess. I spent a week in DC once. Very unpleasant one, I found everyone expected you to be A or B. If you were B when they wanted A, they were patronizing. If you weren't either they were downright snide. And everyone was way too solidified in themselves to notice what was going on around them, or they didn't just care. So fitting for the capitol.

I guess I just hate people.

[codymitchell]

Still, better than the short time I spent in Salt Lake City. :\

[otter_pops]

i understand.. i guess i'm basing my feelings on my DC-area neighborhood, rather than right in the central city. people should be kinder! if you visit dc again, i'll initiate a hospitality campaign.