The neighborhoods look nice within DC. The people look nice. The cars are nice. It reminds me of a typical Midwestern town with slightly cuter architecture. However, I keep remembering that map of DC in the Washington Post that charted the location of all the homicides. There are about 200+ murders per year, about one for every working day, and they are fairly evenly spread over the city except for the National Mall and Georgetown, which have none. By my examination, there is a murder about every half mile in neighborhoods like this. My theory is those nice people you see walking around all day go home to bed and the night shift of drug thugs and gang bangers come out shooting each other after midnight.