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Arlington and Fairfax have an average life expectancy of 86 years, whereas D.C. and Prince George’s County folks live to be an average of 78 years.
Black men in D.C. have a life expectancy of 68 years old, while white men are projected to live, on average, until age 83.
Okay, so maybe we’re not the best looking people around. But according to a report by the Social Science Research Council’s American Human Development Project initiative, the Washington region is doing pretty well for itself when it comes to life expectancy, education and income, topping a ranking of the ten largest American metro areas in those statistics. The long life expectancy of white D.C. residents (the longest among any group in the survey at 83.1…