US News ranked Georgetown 20th nationally in a country brimming over with outstanding and prestigious universities... I'd say that's pretty damn good. Above Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, USC, UVA or Wake Forest. There are only 2 countries in the world that have ANY university ranked higher than UCLA if you go by Times Higher Education's list (though they rank Georgetown lower). What is prestigious about the neighborhood? A few odd book/music and curio shops and some overpriced restaurants and apparel stores?
Completely agree with your assessment of the school. The law school is generally top 15 or top 10 in the country. But I completely disagree with your indictment of the neighborhood. It has long been regarded as the neighborhood of prestige. It has the highest cost per residential sq foot of any DC neighborhood, even Kalorama. Why do you think those shops and restaurants are overpriced? Same reason a Ferrari is, because of the prestige. No, it's not Monaco or St. Tropez, but it's the best DC has in that regard.
haha.. I know it's a prestigious neighborhood. But still, like most prestigious neighborhoods, I usually think of them "so what?" Becoming a prestigious university is more difficult I think.
Everything will one day be named after Reagan, in the most hypocritical manner possible. An airport, when it was he who fired air traffic controllers? At my alma mater, UCLA, they renamed the NPI (Neuropsychiatric Institute) after Reagan--when he was governor, I was attending UCLA, and he ranted about the Universities of California every day. He would lie incessantly about students, how lazy, spoiled, communist agents we all were. People would hate us based on what he said, even tho most us of wœrked and went to school full-time, and I never met a spy pretending to be a student yet! He hated the UC system and is responsible for it going from $400/quarter to many times that, unaffordable for kids who must work. It's like Trump treats the press today--that's how Reagan treated the U.C. system. Seeing his name on campus makes me want to cry.
The Baltimore-Washington name change was totally for marketing purposes. Despite them all being in the federal "Baltimore-Washington statistical area," no locals think of Dulles or National as Baltimore airports, or of BWI as a Washington airport.
I grew up calling BWI Friendship airport. Such a nice name. Now it is official Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. I don't think anyone calls it Marshall or Friendship.
Actually just looked it up- in straight-line distance, Dulles is about 5 miles closer, but it generally takes longer to get into the city via train or car.
I'm a DC local. I've used BWI many times and when I'm on a travel website and check the "include area airports" box or fill in "WAS" (the code for the entire Washington area) as opposed to "DCA" or "IAD" I will expect BWI to be included in the results. And I am far out in to the Virginia suburbs! If I lived actually within DC or somewhere in the suburbs on the Maryland side then BWI would be either equidistant or possibly closer than Dulles. Not sure what these other people are talking about. Maybe they don't fly as much as I do.
As a Gaithersburg native (and will move back there in a few months), BWI is much more preferable to fly from/to than Dulles especially because there's an express bus (201) that takes you between Gaithersburg and BWI (via Shady Grove Station and a couple of other stops). Even with the Silver Line now fully open, it still takes much longer to get to Dulles than to BWI.
I live right next door to Dulles, and I'll occasionally fly in and out of National (yeah, I can't bring myself to add the "Reagan" part either) if there's a big enough price difference, but BWI might as well be in Guam as far as I'm concerned.
I also live next to Dulles and I flew out of BWI and it was horrible. After a long flight, I really don't wanna be driving an hour an a half back home. The price difference did make it worth it.
I used to live right next to samiamco, the Concord would fly over my house daily as it was coming in to Dulles, I've used BWI many times because there's often cheaper fares there (Southwest hub), and I've used Reagan several times as well and called it Reagan or National without thinking about it.
The Watergate complex consists of several buildings, including apartments, office buildings and a hotel. The DNC headquarters that were burglarized in 1972 were located in an office building, not a hotel.
The license plate answer should be updated to "end taxation without representation" rather than "taxation without representation," since that is now the official design.
Washington DC -> Washington,
Jeez