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To: Grainne who wrote (35462)	4/20/1999 12:17:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

JBE lives in Maryland, close to the D.C. line. That's an awfully nice, very affluent place to be, and to be from. Not just white people, also black, Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, a remarkable crazy quilt of nationalities, urban, urbane, cosmopolitan. Northern Virginia doesn't have anything quite like that, although do we have our own crazy quilt. We're much more suburban, and not so affluent, for the most part.

To: Grainne who wrote (35462)	4/20/1999 1:05:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Christine, I was not in the least offended. To be frank, I was amused. If you had said simply that Washington is "full of poor black people on drugs", I probably would not have responded. But the question you really asked cracked me up: Doesn't Washington have a lot of desperate poor people on drugs preying on people at night, and a generally high crime rate? It cracked me up because it is precisely the kind of question that people who have never been to Washington ask. Alas, the problem, as I said in my original post, is that here the poor prey on the poor, in their own poor (and often isolated) neighborhoods, where the rest of us never go. And they (the poor)never go to the fancy neighborhoods where we prefer to hang out. In other words, "we" (the fortunate ones) do not get preyed on. (New York City, for example, is a MUCH more dangerous place to be, for anyone, rich or poor.) Joan