I like living in DC and have only witnessed a very small smattering of the bad things people complain about all the time here.

Sometimes I feel like since DC attracts a lot of high strung, high achieving types, you see a lot of more people from that crowd posting about every single little thing that they see wrong with the city.

It's a city. No city is perfect. DC is better than most other cities in terms of quality of life and livability. The mass transit is decent. Of course can things be better and can we do better? Yes. But that's utopia. There will be compromises.

If you don't like it here, you can always go to a place that suits you better. I'd imagine most people on this subreddit are well-educated and are in skilled professions, so to do that isn't much of a stretch for many here.