It's Only Fair...What I loved about Washington , DC that kept me there from 1992 to 2002

• Metro, except when I hated it (wanna walk up the dead escalator at Dupont Circle, anyone?)


• Cactus Cantina and Austin Grill. Mmmmm...salsa and chips.


• Garrett's in Georgetown, especially when three of your housemates worked there and got you free drinks all evening.


• Walking around my really old neighborhood.


• Someone spray painted "Surrender Dorothy" on a Beltway overpass near the Mormon Temple in Kensington, Maryland.


• Adams Morgan.


• The GW Parkway.


• The nicknames for the grocery stores that everyone seemed to know, ie. Social Safeway in Georgetown, Ghetto Giant on Wisconsin, Soviet Safeway on R st.


• Free (well, included in our taxes) museums and zoo.


• The really amusing way everything would close down due to the threat of snow. Oh no, we might get 3 inches!!!! (I grew up in Cleveland, people.)


• Washington DC Area Browns Backers. No "Hail to the Redskins" here!
  
• For work, I would make calls to out-of-towners and they got all excited like the president was calling. "Jimmy, somebody's calling you from Washington!!!!"

And a drumroll, please for what I loved most about living in Washington, DC:

• My daughter was born there. What a difference six years can make.