Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Why I love living in the City...

I like the city - clearly.

I live here.

Being from Utah (the country), there is no reason to live in the country (Virginia). If I wanted to live in a nice semi-suburban hood with trendy restaurants and big houses, I'd move back to Utah, get myself a house in the Avenues in SLC or down in the nice historic part of Ogden - maybe that street with the big park in the middle of it. (I've always liked that one.)

So I live in the city because I want to be able to walk to work and walk to get a chai tea and skate around in the bike lanes and go to the dog park. yada yada yada.

But one bad thing about living in the City is dealing with the DC GOVERNMENT.

Holy slow and poorly managed batman.

Exhibit A - my front walk.

A few weeks ago (28 days to be exact) the D.C. GOVT came to replace/repair my sewer pipes.

To make a long story short, what used to look like this...





















Now looks like this...



And the City won't answer their phone...

2 comments:

Nathan said...

Gotta love the dominant leftist DC government! Inefficient and incompetent. But oh, they mean well.

Mugsy said...

This is so exactly what I pictures your charming home to look like! Sorry about the walk it was such a classic before. Nice of them to poor that lovely tar though. And rip out your little garden and curbing. They are the BEST!