not the same city i grew up in anymore: Interesting name- I was have a conversation the other day with my sister who is back living in Seattle where we both grew up. She said something about how Seattle just isn’t the same anymore etc- complaining about something or other.

It made me appreciated how my perspective of DC is completely shaped by the fact that I didn’t grow up here. I love it here (most days). The change, the development, the preservation- its all exciting. It doesn’t break my heart that things aren’t the way they used to be because I didn’t know it back then. It helps me to appreciate change in my own home town too. Some change is great- in fact, a lot of it is! …of course some is pretty bad too, but you’ve got to take the bad with the good. I put those condos in the good category.

Things always change…otherwise, we’d still be living in wooden one-room shacks…oh wait…some of us unfortunately do.

how overbearing would this be if the condo building was not chic and modern. and that is coming from a pretty traditionalist guy.