Washington, D.C. is Heavily Slept On...

[2Quik4UHoes]

DC is a cool city..plenty of things to do, many different cultures, great nightlife BUT there are some serious cons. I think the traffic and cost of living is being understated. DC doesn't just have bad traffic. It has THE worst traffic in the nation (there are surveys proving this). I've only been through DC once and didn't get stuck in traffic. And that was at 3AM so that shouldn't count. Plus the city layout is confusing as hell. Also the cost of living is high as fukk. Yes you will make more money in DC but from what I see, it doesn't equal out to those high ass housing prices. I would like to live within an hour of DC, but I would not want to live in DC. Also, like others have pointed out, its gay people everywhere.

Traffic only bad during rush hour, if you know where you're going then traffic ain't shyt.

Plus DC is pretty easy to drive in if you know your North, South, East, and West. The layout is easy as shyt really because of how literal it is. If you want to go from Columbia Heights to the Mall then you need to travel South and East. You can travel South on 14th, then East(left) on U st, then an additional right(south) on 7th and keep straight until you get to the Mall. If you want to get from the Big Chair in Anacostia to Friendship Heights you need to go in the directions of North and West. So you can take MLK straight to I-395 and take the Maine Ave exit and go straight to the Mall through the roundabout to Rock Creek Parkway, take the Wisconsin Ave exit make your left(north) and keep straight. Mind you, those are easy directions so those places can have a little more traffic but once you got the idea of the NSEW thing the only thing to know is what is or isn't a dead end or one way. Driving in DC gave me a great sense of direction, my gps stopped working in Manhattan and I still found my uncle's old neighborhood in Queens using the same ideas I learned driving in DC.

 

[dennis roadman]

In a literal sense yeah cuz its damn near the capitol of the world. But you gotta understand, locals don't even acknowledge the transients unless they tryna cop some drugs or something. Aside from that its literally two different worlds, its not even like we standoffish like that but we just don't fukk with each other.

good post

people from outta town think people from outta town make up the whole city because people from outta town only know people from outta town

and we dont really like any of yall

 

[BigMan]

From a law student's perspective, everyone in big New York firms is miserable. On the flipside, everyone in big DC firms can't stop gushing about how awesome DC is.

You make the call.

i'm an aspiring law student looking to at schools in both cities especially NYC

is this true breh

 

[Drake is God]

Dc is for rich folks

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

good post

people from outta town think people from outta town make up the whole city because people from outta town only know people from outta town

and we dont really like any of yall

....this is all off the no bullshyt tho. All you snooty OTs should read this carefully, especially the last line.

 

[dennis roadman]

....this is all off the no bullshyt tho. All you snooty OTs should read this carefully, especially the last line.

it's never gonna change breh, the city is world famous for a 2 mile area. everyone assumes the whole city is made up of wonks and yuppies and cant wrap their heads around the fact that people grow up here and dont have any fukks to give about capitol hill.

i met a girl on U St from ohio who moved here to work for the romney campaign, lived in Va and was telling me i didnt belong

after that i just gave up, fukk them and their consulting firms

 

[714562]

You didn't look at the departments




You look at the financial aid awarded bro



Scroll down.

Stern Business is amazing and the law school and the engineering school and the econ school and the med school and the english department and the psychology department and the film school... ALL ranked much higher than their GU counterparts

NYC is also 1000x the city that DC is in all aspects
They aren't comparable at all

First off, I don't give a shyt about discreet graduate department rankings. A top grad department can sustain itself in a shyt school with top faculty and middling students -- case in point, UF Law's top ranked tax LLM degree. The bottom line is, Georgetown kids outperform NYU kids:

Georgetown Entering Class Fall 2013

• SAT Critical Reading: 650 / 750
• SAT Math: 660 / 750

New York University Entering Class Fall 2013

• SAT Critical Reading: 620 / 720
• SAT Math: 630 / 740

Second of all, there is no "econ school" at NYU. There is an economics department.

Third of all, I don't give a shyt about how much raw money is awarded. That doesn't tell me anything about financial aid. What I DO want to know is how many aid recipients in each school have their demonstrated needs fully met:

http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg03_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1182
http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg03_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=436

Georgetown:
Average Award$: 39,395
Need Fully Met: 630 (100.0%) of aid recipients

NYU:
Average Award: $31,857
Need Fully Met: 450 (18.5%) of aid recipients

So yeah, tell me again bout NYU's financial aid.

 

[714562]

i'm an aspiring law student looking to at schools in both cities especially NYC

is this true breh

I mean, feel free to do your own research but from what I know, people in DC Biglaw love their jobs and people in NY Biglaw hate their lives.

EDIT: Biglaw is hard anywhere, but NY biglaw associates get treated like straight-up slaves. And there is a fukk-ton of pressure to waste your money on shyt in New York just to keep up appearances. DC Biglaw isn't about that vanity.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

it's never gonna change breh, the city is world famous for a 2 mile area. everyone assumes the whole city is made up of wonks and yuppies and cant wrap their heads around the fact that people grow up here and dont have any fukks to give about capitol hill.

i met a girl on U St from ohio who moved here to work for the romney campaign, lived in Va and was telling me i didnt belong

after that i just gave up, fukk them and their consulting firms

None at all. fukk the whole downtown....

Yeah I've already accepted it, you'll never see those two worlds mix but that's the price to pay for being the seat of power. You got tourists year round from all over the world as is without adding the OT people living here for some job on the Hill or some random think tank/consulting firm/some other bullshyt. The gentrification kinda makes it tougher to deal with cuz you gotta cross paths with these douches more often. I liked it more when they just lived in NoVA. I mean some are cool especially if you aren't the snooty kinda OT, but for the most part I just stay the fukk away from that world I've worked in downtown shyt is in terms of the people you're around it don't even feel like you're in DC anymore.

i'm an aspiring law student looking to at schools in both cities especially NYC

is this true breh

@BarNone could you tell this man about your days in the District. :hmmjb:

 

[Poitier]

First off, I don't give a shyt about discreet graduate department rankings. A top grad department can sustain itself in a shyt school with top faculty and middling students -- case in point, UF Law's top ranked tax LLM degree. The bottom line is, Georgetown kids outperform NYU kids:

Georgetown Entering Class Fall 2013

• SAT Critical Reading: 650 / 750
• SAT Math: 660 / 750

New York University Entering Class Fall 2013

• SAT Critical Reading: 620 / 720
• SAT Math: 630 / 740

7,636 enrolled GU

22,615 enrolled NYU

Pathetic

Georgetown:
Average Award$: 39,395
Need Fully Met: 630 (100.0%) of aid recipients

NYU:
Average Award: $31,857
Need Fully Met: 450 (18.5%) of aid recipients

So yeah, tell me again bout NYU's financial aid.

This doesn't help your case.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

good post

people from outta town think people from outta town make up the whole city because people from outta town only know people from outta town

and we dont really like any of yall

there breh. I'm an OT and all I hangs with are born and bred DC natives. I find the transients corny and too busy trying to live life around here on some black Hollywood shyt. I laugh at folks who act scared of DC and won't go north of Mt. Vernon square and shyt. Use to hang in Adams Morgan a lot until I started realizing that shyt was just a hipster version of M St. DC is a dope ass city once you get past all the cleaned up, fancy parts. I'd love to move back here and if I do, staying far away from Fairfax county. Moving my ass either in the city or Maryland

 

[Poitier]

Have a 3rd the student population in a shyttier city with significantly shyttier departments and think you went to an equivalent school

 

[Ronnie Macho]

My monthly rent doe

 

[DreadHead P]

Real shyt one of the things about this area I really don't care for is mumbo sauce. I love the fact that the Chinese spots remind me of the ones I'm used to in Jersey, it's a very comforting feeling, but they be lookin at me like when they ask if I want mumbo sauce and I say "nah but drown em in hot sauce and ketchup"

 

[714562]

Have a 3rd the student population in a shyttier city with significantly shyttier departments and think you went to an equivalent school

. . . and yet despite your *ahem* logic, Georgetown wins cross-admit battles with NYU by a large margin

http://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Georgetown University&with=New York University