What we DC folks are looking for is high-pay, prestige, pedigree, and an admirable and prestigious career arc. None of these requirements have anything to do with job happiness, passion, or job satisfaction.
Washington, DC, singles treat dating the same way we treat our career; unfortunately, while we’re overqualified in the career department, we’re underqualified in the dating department.
And to get/win/attain/score/marry a McKinsey-class man or women in Washington, we have to be highly competitive — world class — in a contest where being smart and successful and educated and even pretty isn’t going to cut it if we’re trying to land that ultimate catch who’s perks will include the home on Foxhall Road, the membership at the Chevy Chase Club, au pairs and nannies, the spots in Georgetown Day, and the legacy at Yale (not to mention blue eyes, chiseled features, youth, fitness, hotness, blond hair, skinniness, tallness, beauty, family, pedigree, sexiness, sexual prowess, et al).
The good news, Washington, DC, singles is that we can now achieve all of these things on our own. Well, all except that perfect someone.
The bad news is that “in DC there is always someone smarter, more powerful, more interesting … hell, the itinerant nature of the town virtually assures a fresh flow of the new and novel. How does your average male compete with the knowledge that 1) the very next reception you attend could also be the beginning of that whirlwind love affair that just so happens to include your present ‘other’ and someone who is definitely not paying your mortgage; and 2) that your present ‘other’ is smart enough to know that, at least in some respects, she can always do better (or, at least, she has now been taught that settling is for Midwestern girls, thus the buffet line of sample men is the perfect place to run roughshod over any occasional gentleman who may cross her path)?”
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Okay, so shameless promotion aside, yeah, there’s no doubt that DC folk have a high standard. EXTREMELY high. After all, there’s no city in America with a higher percentage of people trying to change the world.