How exactly did you know the topology of that area so well being a tourist from texas?

More dead cyclists. Man, they'll create a tax incentive for anything.

Crystal City Marriott. Lovely stay, basement tunnel led right to Metro Blue line. Other way in the tunnel led to some restaurants. Fantastic location for tourists.

If you come in the summer we have water parks and stuff kiddos will love. Right off metro too. I've been here 6+ years and it still feels like an amusement park compared to fucking Miami where you spend 30-40 hours a month in the car like it's nothing.

Tbh I sold my truck and just bike everywhere now. It never even snowed this winter here. Although may have been a flurry or two we tend to worry about accumulation and there was 0. Bonus points for pretending you're captain America going by the monuments.

It wouldn’t run at night if it wasn’t at capacity

I've been making Mexican from yt recipes and it's 1000x better than restaurants.

We got a decent tacombi and Los tios off the blue line

We caught some right outside the airport, but were bummed we missed the majority. My daughter especially wanted to see them.

What hotel did you stay in?

Houstonian now DC/Northern Virginia here. I've searched far and wide around here for decent Tex-Mex and I've found exactly 1 place lol. It's my biggest regret.

Love the positivity and love that you loved my home. Thank you :)

I always thought Cactus Cantina was Tex Mex too? But I've never actually been to Texas so I'm sure my opinion is really off, how does it compare?

Are you talking TX or DC? Because while I imagine the gas is cheaper in TX, there is no vehicle property tax in DC.

What alternates would you suggest?

Glad you liked it, wish you could have waited to see the cherry blossoms.

From a Houstonian who has been living in the area for almost 10 years now, it boggles my mind. Republic Cantina is pretty good, but the whole metro area overall is flooded with tasteless, disappointing, garbage Tex-Mex. Every time I go back and visit my parents and have Ninfa's, I cry a little bit knowing what I'm missing.

That said, there is great Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Ethiopian, and Salvadoran, so there's a lot out there.

Thanks buddy! I don’t think we’ll live up there, but it was wonderful to visit. And we will likely come up there to visit in the future!

I’m originally from Texas and the mass transit is so much better than sitting in traffic for long periods of time, but if you live further away from a metro stop and have to walk or bus to metro it’s kind of a grind: the COL up here is crazy and unless your from Austin or DFW proper you won’t know how it is. Just know if you plan on moving up here it’s a major culture shock, and you should definitely have a job and a place to live before doing it.

Much love from a former Texan.

Since Texas’ (notably high) property taxes are collected at the local level instead of the state level, wouldn’t your link about State Government Tax Collections be leaving out a fairly big piece of the equation?

One of many issues when comparing a state to a city, right? Like DC vs Austin seems like a more useful comparison— I would expect people in Austin pay less but not by some massive amount

I just left yesterday and only had a day to explore but the place truly is amazing! I rented an e-scooter and got to see most of the sites within a few hours! Lots of people from spring break so pictures turned out bad but it was all an experience. Wind chill was brutal coming from the west coast but I wish I had more time to check out the museums and maybe do a tour somewhere. I’ll be back for sure!

Nice! I’ll give it a try next time we visit.

I had to check my guns at the border.

If I am honest, loving riding the Metro was in the top five for me when I first visited as a teen and started thinking about moving here. I wasn’t unfamiliar with riding public transit, I was born in Boston. But there was something special about all the particular wonders you could see from this one Metro. Funny that I work from home now, but I enjoyed it for many years.

Greg Abbott is a piece of shit.

The machine would break from not being used from 9pm to 7am? Please just STFU already.

Hey you havent had the real DC experience until you’ve been mugged, sat in beltway traffic or been pulled over by some random protective service.

Just kidding! Keep it real Texas!

:D