You post this as if the majority of us here have not already been following along from the very beginning.
While she is certainly an up-and-coming media personality, all that is very recent. I assure you, reporters that have not yet won Pulitzer prizes don't have the means to live wherever they want. I know a couple local newspaper reporters, and they live in small houses and take on roommates, just to afford the rent. Have you not seen the financial problems of the print news industry lately?
If you had been following along with the rest of us, you would know that she has written about her decision to stay in DC, and she chooses to not run away from the problem, but to stay and fix it. She has much more determination than I do, and than many of us here who would just give up and leave. That takes a special kind of hero.
DC is nothing like Detroit. Detroit is a relative waste-land devoid of culture and character, at least the kind of character that you would want to be around. DC has local government problems, yes, but it is one of the culture centers of the country, and is certainly the political center. It's the place of power. Many good people live there for those reasons and Emily Miller is to be commended for staying and fighting to make DC a better place for them to live.
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