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Genre: People & Blogs
Date of upload: Jul 13, 2022 ^^
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I have so many great memories of growing up in and around DC and never let the time I was shot in a carjacking affect my love for both the city and the people. Two weeks later with the bullet still buried in my shoulder I went back to work driving for a courier company. My father worked downtown and still lives nearby as it's the only city he's known since coming to the US in the 60s. Always something fun to do no matter how much money you have. Another great unique video my friend and I see you at a million very soon.
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There's a 3rd part of DC outside of downtown and the area of townhouses and apartments. There are incredibly expensive neighborhoods of 3-5 bedroom homes west along the river in Georgetown before you get to Chevy Chase or Potomac. Prices range from $2M-$5M for houses that would be $800k-$2.5M across the river in Virginia. Maybe at most, 2300 square feet with at most an acre of land. That was when I was in high school in the early 2010s, I imagine they're more expensive now.
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One fun quirk of the DC border and the Retrocession is based around the southern corner, located at Jones Point in Alexandria. The border stone still sits there, but because of the land being reclaimed by Virginia, the actual southern corner is in the Potomac just nearby. Coupled with Virginia controlling a narrow slice of the river in that area, the Woodrow Wilson Bridge on I-95 and I-495 ends in Alexandria, VA and National Harbor, MD, but for a small portion over the river passes through this tiny corner of DC.
I never lived in the DC area proper, but I did live for the first 25 or so years of my life only a couple hours away up the Potomac in WV's Eastern Panhandle, so I've been to the area a decent handful of times. One time I even got there by train from Martinsburg, so I had a rare experience with proper public transit in the US. ...Unfortunately the Amtrak line there is a bit run down and the first train stalled shortly into the trip, so we all had to cross to another train that came to take us the rest of the way to Union Station. Ended up a bit later to the convention than I intended, but not a huge deal all in all. And the DC Metro has always been just fine in my experiences, mainly the Red Line from Rockville to the city center. Great video, glad I'm caught up on this excellent series before WV or CO are up!
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@ThatIsInterestingTII
1 year ago
The next state I'll be covering in The US Explained is Vermont! To all my subscribers from Vermont, please reply to fill me in on what I need to know about your home state, such as unique food, traditions, places, some fun facts and local dialects and pronunciations! I can't promise everything will make it into the video, but I will try my best, and I'm looking forward to getting started!
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