XXI. Washington, DC--no longer the hub of the Federal Government

Please--this is Whack-O Theory land!  Tongue-in-cheek: okay?

Many persons who have prominent and powerful positions in the federal government do not prefer to live in Washington--either they don't want the conspicuousness or they want to raise their kids in a more normal environment.  Add to the reluctance of persons in power to move to Washington is the concern of government itself that no one place harbor the central core of governmental officialdom. These two factors led the government to parcel out its seeds of power throughout the country.  And, its altered the contour of government such that the various think-tanks and lobby groups, using the old model of the power-brokers of government centralized in just one locality, viz., Washington, DC and vicinity, are virtually talking to themselves, rather than the federal power-brokers of the world!
Oh yes, there's the Secretaries of the various federal Departments that act as liaisons to the public and Congress, but the actual decision-making and policy-formation activities may be thousands of miles away; and Washington offices function simply as a front for their operations.

I say this, not to discourage various ngo organizations to continue meeting with the Washington offices of the federal agencies and departments located there--in Washington, DC--but merely to point out that their effect on developing federal policy and legislation through that office of communication will have minimal effect, in my opinion.

Let's conjecture in Whack-O style.  Omaha, Nebraska may have a very large military installation and might be construed as a nexus of military operations at the Joint Chief of Staffs level.  The FBI LA Field office could even be considered no longer simply a field office but the centre of FBI world activities--along possibly with its Field Office in Las Vegas.  The number of conjectures just where the various federal groups perform their operations is virtually endless, making it far more difficult for any outside group to penetrate or disrupt.

That Hilary Clinton had her own computer server simply serves as a foretelling of how the federal government is seeking to keep its lines of communication free and open from foreign intelligence.

So, really, there's no need for the prices of housing in Washington, DC to go through the roof any longer.  There's some but little in Washington, DC to merit the increased numbers of organizations seeking to locate there.