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To: jbe who wrote (47497)	7/27/1999 2:42:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 108807

I grew up in Marlow Heights, just outside of the District, and had a great many family members still inside the line. I felt strongly that I was a Washingtonian, to the point of giving my return address as Washington, D.C. when I found out that the zip code would ensure proper routing. My area was more or less a continuation of the city, so I know what you mean by feeling like one is already "in" D.C...I grew up picnicking by the Tidal Basin and going to concerts given by the Navy Band on a barge at the Watergate; visiting the Spirit of St. Louis at the old Air and Space museum, and the Rembrandts at the National Gallery; hanging out (when a teenager) in Georgetown, going to the Biograph or the Key; going to the National Zoo and biking along the C&O Canal....I am an hour away from the Mall now (45 minutes in very light traffic), so it is not so far, although I would like to be closer or even inside the line in a few years...

To: jbe who wrote (47497)	7/27/1999 3:06:00 PM
From: Michael M	Respond to of 108807

Joan -- no argument with your geography lesson. I would say you live in "DC", just as I say my brother (McLean) lives in "DC". I lived in "LA" for years but not in LA. I can find relevant (to me) agencies and departments of the federal govt. in "DC" blindfolded (including the one in Langley). Personally, I find "downtown" NY (now, go and define that one -- I settle on mid-town Manhattan) very OK, at all hours. In spite of some spectacular screw ups, Rudy's policy of cracking down on the little stuff has had a wonderful effect. I was worried sick when my daughter took a job on "Wall Street" -- but not on Wall Street :-) -- and took an apartment by herself near Central Park. When I visited (for the first time in years), I was amazed -- didn't take much looking at the real estate section to get over that fantasy, though. I always lock everything. Paranoid.