Here’s five things you should know about D.C.
1: For starters most people don’t live in DC. I live here with about 700K other folks, but the metro area has a population of over 6M people and most everybody lives in Maryland or Virginia.
2: We love our traffic circles and hidden routes like Beach Drive that cuts through Rock Creek Park to get to places uptown. We know if someone doesn’t know the unwritten rules of DC driving, they probably have Maryland or Virginia plates.
3: This is a football town. Yes, the Capitals and Nationals have both won championships recently and they with the Wizards all have red, white and blue uniforms but this is still home of the Washington Football Team. There are even pockets of Steelers and Cowboy fans here but when Washington loses on Sunday this town is no fun. But when they win you can feel it in the air.
4: We have a ton of free museums and national parks. The Smithsonian has nineteen museums and a zoo that are free. Most of them are located here along the National Mall.
5: Some call it DC, the cocktail crowd will say Washington, others call it The National Capital Region but locals call the area “The DMV”. And it doesn’t stand for the motor vehicle department or Delaware it stands for DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
Matt Cheney
Washington Fine Properties
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