krellor

The core of the DC metro is encircled by interstate 495 (the capital beltway or just the beltway) which forms a ring around DC proper and a bit of Maryland and Virginia. The wider region is often called the DMV: DC, Maryland, and Virginia region.

Inside the beltway and just outside is pretty urban and tends to be expensive. Cost decreased the further outside of the beltway you go. The DC metro serves the region with light rail with connections to the bus system and heavy rail (MARC and Amtrak). Manny employers will provide metro passes so it's with asking about.

Virginia to the south tends to be less expensive than Maryland to the north of the Beltway. That said there are differences in public transit and other municipal services. Maryland taxes are higher but you get more services. What matters is knowing what those services are and if you will benefit from them.

The DC light rail has three main points you might connect in from outside the beltway. The orange and silver line, which run to the West of DC. The yellow line which ends at Huntington station in Alexandria Virginia to the South of DC by Reagan airport. And the red line which makes a U shape with both ends to the north or northwest of DC. All have parking garages or bus systems you can connect to. You can use the metro trip planner to see what a commute time would look like DC SmartTrip).

I moved here from the West Coast, and while I prefer the West Coast I didn't regret coming out here but eventually I'll probably head back once I've done the career tour I set out to accomplish here.

There are great restaurants, but they are harder to find. You really can't trust Google reviews as it seems everything is 4.4 stars.

Be aware of the prevailing traffic patterns during commuting hours before moving. What looks like a 1 hour trip could be 3 at the worst traffic times. Louis of folks go in early and leave early to avoid the traffic and congestion, if that is an option. Ideally, live as close as you can afford to the end of the metro line with the shortest trip to work. Electric scooters can be a good last mile from metro to office.

I work in the beltway and am lucky with a 20-30 minute commute because I live close to a metro station, so it is doable.

You will want an umbrella. I came over, west coast climber in the Cascades, never owned an umbrella before, etc. Get an umbrella. It never rains, but it pours.

Happy to answer any other questions. I'm not on all the time but will check for replies when I login, maybe once every day or two.

The only comment I'll make, is that being clear with definitions and which part of a definition you disagree with is helpful to discussions. I agree that private property is a superset of personal property. But in your response you didn't introduce the distinction nor explain the part of the definition you find antithetical to liberty. I think most people wouldn't know the different definitions and would have a knee jerk reaction to what you are saying, potentially interpreting your statement more strongly than you intend. Unless you intend to say you find individual ownership of toothbrushes antithetical to liberty.

That's all. Have a great day!

I'm only replying because I think this is a situation of conflicting definitions.

In terms of liberalism, private property is the legally recognized right of individuals or non-governmental groups to own, control, use, and transfer land, goods, and assets to the exclusion of others.

I think folks should be working off the same definitions in a conversation, or at least clarify their working definitions and identify differences. E.g. private vs personal property. If you believe in your right to own a toothbrush, or a painting, or a mattress, and have control over its use or exclusion of use by others, then whether you call it private property or personal property rights, I think you are on the same page, in principle, with most folks. After that, the difference is a matter of extent to common societal infrastructure.

But not clarifying the words we use and what we mean them to be makes everyone feel further apart on these issues.

Just my two cents.

That's fair, illiberalism is the proper countervailing force here, it just has some Venn diagram overlap with authoritarianism where the latter curtails political freedoms. It is easy to conflate them!

I get that these terms get tossed around without people knowing what they mean, and I'm not against language evolving. But liberalism was never really intended to describe wherever you are on a progressive-conservative spectrum.

Pulling from Wikipedia, but it's a similar definition in most texts.

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property, and equality before the law.

Classical liberals just tended to look progressive compared to people who weren't liberals, because, well, read the definition. The countervailing force to liberalism is authoritarianism. It's more of a government legitimacy and structure philosophy.

Mustabio? Musdecapio?

Honestly I can't quite tell. Could be tofu?

Aren't you supposed to just eat the 17th one so they cleanly fit?

I don't know. While the earth is warming on average, the weather fluctuations are becoming more extreme even on the colder side with the occasional broadening of the polar vortex. So warmer averages with more surprise frosts could be in the cards.

"Therefore a decision was made to exceptionally and temporarily increase the regulatory limit to 15% - only for this year," she said.

"The 2026 growing season will be remembered as one of the most unusual in Champagne's history, marked by severe spring frosts of historic intensity, an exceptionally early flowering period and five heatwaves throughout the summer." it added.

Oh the adorable optimism. To borrow from Homer, "the most unusual, so far." I don't think climate change is done with Europe yet.

Dead ringer is an exact look a like. A clone.

Nutter and fruitcake are terms for someone crazy.

From a security perspective, if two people and the luggage clear screening, and one ticketed person proceeds to fly with the luggage, then it doesn't matter which one of them it was, right? I'm sure it's against the rules and the airlines might care. But just gaming the scenario out, I don't see how a pre-screened gate visitor changes the security posture as long as one of them boards the plane with the luggage.