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There should be some kind of law that dictates over the next forty years....if your federal building in DC become obsolete or in need of any major renovation, no funding will be provided unless you agree to move at least 500 miles outside of the District.

Even if you use mass transit and try to live 15 miles outside of DC...the system simply isn’t built well enough to handle the number of travelers. I worked with one officer who was traveling via Amtrak from sixty miles away, and the system marginally worked for him to make this a daily experience.

They need to upend the Federal Government entirely and move the capitol to somewhere in flyover country. That way they could build a new, more secure presidential residence. If the capitol was moved people who are not from the beltway swamp would also be able to apply for government jobs. As it stands now, a young college grad without DC connections or a family trust fund is barely able to afford to move to and live in DC. Corruption is rife already, but many are more easily enticed due to the impossibly high living expenses.

It’s been at least a decade since IT improved to where Federal agencies can not only be physically outsourced to other states but operate more efficiently & more cheaply.

Much less costly real estate & construction costs, little to no commutes, cheaper cost of living, a long list of nice to haves.

But that won’t happen as long as Federal bureaucrats see their power as based on being centralized with their @zzes planted right there in the Federal District & its suburbs.

The Soviet Union & King Louis XIV of France were well aware that remoteness equals decreased accountability to the central government. The Soviets had to live with it because Russia is geographically huge; King Louis merely summoned the French nobility away from their dukedoms with a wave of his hand and forced them to spend much of their time in Versailles at his beck & call.

So yeah, northern Virginians, enjoy your new toll roads that used to be `free’. Especially that stretch of I-95 between Richmond & D.C. Sheer murder during commutes.