Ironically, from what I've heard, legislators in DC apparently often live in like weird dorm places?
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Rent in DC is very high, and members of Congress don't live there all year, only when they're in session, so keeping your own apartment there is this enormous extra expense And the salary, while high by normal-people standards, really isn't much by rich-people standards
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This is increasingly starting to sound like a hilarious sitcom
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Yeah Amazon did it, John Goodman was the best part of it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Now this sounds like a very good sitcom.
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Replying to @GirishDuvvuri @loudpenitent and
Bill Murray is the celebrity stunt casting for their initial fourth roommate who moves out because he gets arrested by the FBI So they go hunting for a new guy (the young hip freshman Senator from Florida, a thinly-disguised Marco Rubio, who shakes up their old-fart lifestyle)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GirishDuvvuri and
Their staffers, who make a lot less money than them, can't afford to live with roommates in a tiny apartment downtown They have to live with roommates in a tiny apartment (or more frequently a rundown old group house) in the suburbs and take a shitty 45-minute Metro ride to work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GirishDuvvuri and
It's like this in every big city but DC is especially bad because of the bullshit height restrictions in their zoning laws to keep the nation's capital looking all scenic and 19th-century
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GirishDuvvuri and
oh, THAT'S why it looks that way
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @GirishDuvvuri and
Yeah unless you get a special exemption no building's height can be more than 2x the width of the street it faces They want you to be able to see the sky everywhere you go, and for nothing to obstruct the view of the Capitol and the Washington Monument
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You'd think if they're going to essentially force everyone to live in the suburbs they could have a commuter rail system that isn't fucking garbage
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I mean compared to BART and light rail the Metro is absurdly good
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Replying to @loudpenitent @Nymphomachy and
When was the last time you rode it
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