Not to rain on your parade, but DC has lots of drawbacks too compared to a city like Portland. One of the most distressing things about DC is how little crime is segregated into neighborhoods. People get killed even in hip areas like Georgetown and Adams Morgan. Truly the egalitarian dream. There were bodies found in the Georgetown canal while I lived there.
This sounds disturbingly like the complaint that "crime should not happen in places where people like ME like to go". I doubt you intended that to be a racist or classist comment, but safety shouldn't be a luxury given only to people who can afford the nice parts of town.
