I really enjoy biking around the city on the weekends. It's the best way to enjoy all the sights and sounds. Also the Rock Creek Park system is truly amazing! You can get "lost" in all the wilderness and momentarily forget you are actually in the middle of a large, populated city. DC is beautiful! :-)

there is so very much to do! I moved here from upstate NY and have been reveling in the diverse activities that abound. Theater, hockey, music, museums, festivals, history. . .all reasonably priced, all metro accessible, what a joy.

I love the divirsity of entertainment options!

tons of bars if you like that thing

any kind of dance, music, theatre, performance you can imagine. well, nearly.

and I love that there is a growing tribal bellydance scene.

not to mention the sideshow and burlesque movement that is gaining momentum!

it's a place of possibilities! and I'm glad I settled here

OK , please allow me to Rant a bit here...
maybe it is just downtown living, but so many people seem to think they are the only personl in the world, oblivious to anyone or anything else going on around them...beyond bad manners and inconsiderate behavior,... not to mention their inept abilities to do the job they are being payed to do seems to abound in every place i seem to go.... way beyond goverment...every layer of everything...not to mention the "average" person i meet is so consertive and uptight, their butt could turn coal into diamonds...
maybe it is just me, but people really just aren't friendly at all- and if they are it is because they want something from you... users and parasites...
"oh but the culture"-- yeah, homeless mental derranged crack heads screaming on every other street at all hours of day and night - DC culture-- "the museams"-- filled with collections of mostly white men, taken from the underclass and poor.....throngs of midwest tourists riding in busses fuming tons of toxic pollution making the air unbreathable (an hour outside downtown is like smoking an entire pack of cig's) --"the parks"-ok -they are nice, but the park police- no loitering, no kites, stay on the trails..etc... "the living"--the rats, mice, roaches, and bed bugs infesting nearly every vestabule of afordable housing--"the scene"-- the TOQS croud....the crystal meth heads.... the my shat don't stink , but yours does folks...name brand-label obsessed... "the opportunities"-- the ignorance --the crime---the filth --the greed--the poverty... the gray dispair in the faces and depths of the mindless drones trugging back and forth to/from a job that nearly each one hates -to the very core of their being... the masses of materialism addicted morans, buying china's cheap slave labor made crap that they do NOT need in any real way shape or form, just to make up for the dark empty feeling they have deep inside ....the vacant wish to own somthing that makes their sad little lives matter....their pathetic closed mind and lives--head stuck so far up their own behind, they can't smell- ignoring the signs--- "whats not to love"...its so getto faboulous! -- and lets not even get me started on/into politics....yeah, i love DC -- hope springs eternal -- from the cess pool of humanity, now hated by the majority of the rest of the world.

And somebody PLEASE tell me why people Really seem to hate it when i am open, upbeat, happy and having a good time, in spit of everything, like "how dare I!"

Thanks for letting me share, and geting that off my chest.
Blessed be

... the kind where you watch your tax dollars at work. I finally got around to going to see the Supremes (as in Court) do their oral arguments shtick, and went to a Senate hearing for a real-life "Thank You For Smoking" where a Florida agribusiness front man tried defending their record on migrant worker slavery.

You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll cringe in horror as you realize that it's REAL, and that there's no leaving this theater; what you see here will follow you into your life. Shows are almost every day, and they're free!

I'm serious, this is a must do. I'm going to be going to lots more of these things. Can't believe it took me five years of living here to finally go do it.

Cheers!