Posted on 08/28/2022 9:05:09 PM PDT by Nextrush
“... perfect vehicle for driving in urban areas.”
But why would you to?
Washington Transfusions
Just think how much this one criminal is costing society. He injured a football player (the injury could possibly end his career - he could have been killed). At the very least, this is a medical expense plus the victim not being able to work for a period of time. How many other people has the criminal hurt? How much property has he damaged or stolen? The quality of life in a city is poor if no one is safe.
Happy here to have escaped to rural America, although, of course, there are problems here as well.
CRIME...it’s what is for dinner in Democrat hell holes
Washington S***sacks
Washington KiddieDiddlers
“Gentrified or warzone?”
About 75 percent gentrified and trending up fast. 75 percent may be a low estimate.
People who have not seen H Street N.E. in ten years or more would not recognize it. Much of it has been entirely rebuilt and has gone from old two story brick buildings to modern mid rise structures with ground floor retail and mixed use above. Some surviving older structures remain as a ghost of what was. A few of these still look shabby, but these are just waiting for the wrecking ball, once enough of the adjoining buildings have been acquired and folded into the redevelopment package.
Capitol Hill has gentrified pretty solidly down to H. There is not a single block on the Capitol Hill side that you would need to worry about until you get east of 15th. Then you get into Rosedale and Kingman Terrace, which are rapidly improving but are still a bit transitional. (These are in the swale of low ground between Capitol Hill and the Arboretum, which is on the next hill to the north. This used to be law, swampy, flood prone land and developed much later, with a much different neighborhood history.) North of H, the area between H and Florida Ave/Gallaudet is pretty good, probably about where Capitol Hill was 15 years ago. Immediately to the east of that, Trinidad and Carver Langdon are flipping but are not as far along.
The whole area is too close in not to gentrify. Topographically H Street is the northern boundary of Capitol Hill, with the area between H and New York Avenue beginning to acquire an identity of its own. The railroad tracks and the very large rail yards run along NY Avenue and are a major barrier to movement. That will become the real boundary of “Capitol Hill extended.” The Arboretum, Mt. Olivet Cemetery and the Gallaudet campus form a defacto greenbelt along NY Avenue all the way out to the river. The housing pressure is immense and this entire area is fast transitioning.
North of the railyards and NY Avenue is booming as well. It’s a story of micro habitats, but there are a lot of people here who are operating on the basis of ancient and outdated information. The good areas are all improving. They now encircle and are squeezing out the problem areas. Washington’s affordable housing is now in far northeast and close-in PG County. It won’t be affordable much longer. The whole Anacostia River corridor is coming back to life, from College Park and Hyattsville on down.
The perps left the firearm?
Okaaaay...
https://www.dodge.com/charger/srt.html
For anyone else curious.
Not very environmentally friendly.
Bad vic! Bad perps!
Understood; my older car looks worthless but runs great and has a long life ahead of it. I camouflage its value by not washing it...
Add in Prince George's County and southern Montgomery County
I hope it was one of Abbott’s Border Jumpers.
“1962 Plymouth Valiant, Slant 6”
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Very dependable engine in those cars and pretty good fuel economy with the single barrel carburetor.
Growing up we had a Valiant and a Belvedere, both had the 225 Slant 6 engine. We had automatic transmissions in the cars. The Valiant was a pushbutton automatic and the Belvedere was 3 speed auto on the column. We put so many miles on those cars...(I think over 300k each) being handed down to us kids and we beat on those engines and transmissions too.
Frequently replacing ball joints in the front suspension though.
I learned to drive a stick at 11 years old on a 1941 Wyllis Jeep 4 cyl flathead engine and towing a trailer as I was working with a maintenance man (friend of the family) on rental properties in a small town. This was back in 1970/71. He taught me how to drive it and then would let me drive it alone on the properties or even on the road between some of the properties that were close together in the rural area.
I ate there recently; Ben’s wife is still working there, greeting customers with a smile and cleaning tables. She has to be in her 80s.
I told her she didn’t need to clean my trash as I would do it myself - she smiled and said “let me do it, I’ve been doing this over 50 years”.
I smell a conspiracy to bring down a football player on purpose. Hide it as carjacking.
“Washington Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. is in stable condition after being shot in the leg during an attempted carjacking in Northeast D.C.,”
Robinson said, “I’m grateful that I was fully vaccinated and boosted as it could have been much worse.”
POTD, Cletus!
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