District of Columbia

environment, often less commute, many attractions and the culture. I also understand people who want to move out to suburbs, more space to work remotely from home, room for a home- office and kids areas, bigger yard space.

But further out the travel distance and time to work and shop can be a hassle as you said.

For work I've done both- lengthy commutes from the city to the suburbs, and long haul in dense traffic within the city from different spread out districts.