A study found that Washington, DC, is the worst place to live because of its high cost of living as well as its high crime rate.
Home Bay, a site for learning about real estate, did a poll in which they asked people about the best place to live based on factors such as crime rates, prices of houses, and costs of living.
According to the study, “residents in rural areas (21%) and suburban areas (24%) concur that Washington, DC is the most undesirable city, whereas urban residents (16%) rank it as the fourth most undesirable city.”
According to the study, Seattle, Washington, is the most underappreciated and attractive city to live in.
“Low crime (46%), reasonably priced housing (43%), and a reasonable cost of living (41%) are the characteristics of the most desirable locations to live.”
“A place is overrated, according to more than one in three Americans, who also believe that high taxes (33%) a high cost of living (36%) costly homes (34%), as well as high crime (41%).”
“Americans think that Seattle is the most attractive and overlooked city in the U.S., taking the title from Virginia Beach. People in the U.S. say that New York is perhaps the most overrated city in the country and that Washington, D.C. is the least attractive city.”
The poll is being conducted in response to the announcement made by a Giant supermarket store in Southeast Washington, DC, that it will be clearing off popular products like Tide, Advil, and Colgate from its shelves in an effort to reduce theft. Additionally, the business said that before leaving, customers would need to provide their receipts to security personnel. In an interview with the Washington Post, chain president Ira Kress stated that the company could no longer maintain a high level of risk in order to serve the community.
“The degree of serious damage or risk to our associates that we currently face prevents us from being able to continue serving the community as we would want,” Kress stated.
“I do not want to be doing this—I’d like to be able to sell those products,” Kress said later. “But the truth is that Tide does not perform well in this store… People often stock a product, but it sells out in two hours, so it doesn’t stay on the shelf.”
Kress also said that thefts at the store have gone up “tenfold in the last five years” and that violence has been going up steadily, particularly at the location on Alabama Avenue in D.C.
“And we’ve spent a lot of cash regarding security here. This store has a greater degree of security than all others,” he said.
Things like Degree deodorant, Schick razors, Dove soap, and Tide detergent will no longer be found on store shelves. Diane Hicks, who is the senior vice president for operations, said that if these items are left out, the store will become a place where crime is likely to happen.
Hicks stated that “I have been keeping it out for our customers, but it just brings all the crime to us.”
These developments with regard to theft may move us back about a century to a time when all products were requested at the counter and brought to the customer by attendants rather than placed on display with open access. Costs would shift from security to customer service. Or we may shift to robotic delivery.
It is a shame that stores can’t survive cause of so much crime bring back the 50’s when theft didn’t happen that often. And you could not pay me to live in washington dc. For that matter any big city !!.