Don’t believe the haters. In the District, friendly neighbors are everywhere.

The full-throated loathing of Washington echoes from all crannies of the country. It’s a cesspool, critics howl. A swamp. A den of snakes. An evil lair for out-of-touch bureaucrats, striving and conniving politicos and entitled elites. It is inhabited, as Eric Trump said recently, by “the most hated people in America by Americans.”

Dang, Eric.

But the truth is that District denizens are pretty well pleased with their neighbors. An overwhelming 82 percent majority of Washingtonians describe the friendliness of their neighborhoods as “good” or even “excellent,” according to a Washington Post poll conducted last month. CONT.

Joe Heim & Emily Guskin, Washington Post