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Washington DC Expat Guide from expatarrivals.com

Expats moving to Washington DC are more often than not surprised by just how physically small the city that is arguably the most powerful and influential in the nation can be. The massive concentration of agencies, departments, businesses, consulates and young eager professionals makes the city so dense with potential that expats seem to be magnetically drawn to its constructs.

Yet despite its iconic image as the centre of American power, DC is also difficult to define - with ambiguous borders and a contrasting image. The district, which is officially politically neither a state nor a city, has few more than half a million people, yet the huge DC metro area borrows from neighbouring state land to create a metropolis ten times that size. 'DC' usually refers not only to the District of Colombia but to parts of Maryland and Virginia that feed into the city.... read more on expatarrivals.com
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