For the first time in my life, I no longer reside in the Rust Belt, my home throughout the beginning of my life and college. Yesterday, Kenzie and I moved to Centreville, VA in Fairfax County. Our apartment is very nice. We no longer have to worry about someone in another apartment flushing the toilet as we shower, scalding us in the process. We have our own full-size washer and dryer and a dishwasher too! The refridgerator was built more recently than 1975 (no joke, Halsband Properties uses those!). But seriously, the Rust Belt is annoying. You hear all sorts of bitching from out of work people, the infrastructure of the cities (i.e. roads in MI and bridges in Pittsburgh) and the whole area is just generally depressing. DC has a pretty stable economy from what I gather, since the Fed never really can go out of business.
We still have a lot of unpacking to do, lots of boxes laying around and such. I am currently using my unknown neighbor's unprotected wireless network to write this, hopefully they don't mind. I'll write more on my first impressions here later...
