Living in the Washington, DC area, it was always frustrating how outsiders would treat us like our city was exactly the same in makeup, attitude, and general culture as New York City, and would then judge our stuff based on that. First, no, New York City is not like DC. Second, no, the main difference between New York City and DC isn't that DC is a bunch of government drones. There are other jobs. It's a whole ass city? It has local economies, artists, food places, software firms, everything you'd expect. Third, New York City pizza isn't good. Stop acting like because a pizza deviates from that standard, it means the pizza is bad. AND I KNOW WHAT I SAID, FITE ME. Finally, we don't have a subway. We have a metro rail. And it's well laid out and easy to navigate, and when you reach your station stop it's easy to get a bus for the final leg of your journey. It's a superior metro scheme because the trains can operate at 60 mph, whereas the top speed for the subway where the trains must act both in place of the trains and the buses is 40mph.
Now to wait for the angry hate comments to come in...
Not to mention that I don’t feel like I’m going to get hepatitis by sitting on the DC metro seats. The new cars are very nice honestly. New York’s subway is a disgrace and absolutely disgusting.
Oh and the pizza comment is on point. My all time favorite is in 1) Virginia (I can still taste it) and 2) Colorado (place is sadly closed). Neither were your typical this is a pizza pizzas. One is owned by a Greek family and the other was the finest brick oven pizza ever.
I was in DC for a week back in 2017. Stayed in a suburban kind of area a bit outside the city center. It was super easy to get to from point A to B via the metro. Will visit again one day.
"Come for the national mall. Stay because you got a job and you never actually made it out to the national mall. You were too busy. Its fine. You'll make it next year for the cherry blossum festival, or the kite festival, something, definitely"