Location: G and 7th, Washington, DC
Rating: 2.1/5
Description: I was going to make this one an honorable mention but decided to be nice because this guy probably lived in the public housing project that this construction site used to be and that may be his new home. Last thing this dude needs is a bad rating on TGOH to make his life any harder.
I’ve been living in Baltimore for a damn long time and I have say I’m actually jealous of DC these days. No, it’s not their functioning economy or the mind boggling phenomenon where it’s OK to ask strangers what they do for a living immediately after a brief introduction in their bar scene (weird right?).
No, I’m jealous of DC for their ability to develop huge swaths of the city into residences for lobbyist, legislators, and other welfare millionaires while the people who have lived on that plot of land for generations are pushed out to the county to spread the joy of “substance-enhanced" living into any community that accepts housing vouchers.
I have never heard of anyone being “pushed out" of Baltimore. I’ve heard of people being forcibly removed because they were in fact squatting in a vacant home with no running water and pooping in plastic bags, but never pushed out! DC, you are doing God’s work, exposing all these suburban families to the joys of that 3AM crackhead car-breakin, or the mid-morning cul-de-sac lean is just a way of saying “grow some balls" to the surrounding suburbs and I for one think it’s time Baltimore’s ‘burbs grew a pair as well!