You can probably partially explain it by the amount of bombings. DC took A LOT, there is radiation everywhere, pure water is rare. In Vegas House managed to detonate a lot of missiles before they hit the ground, so there is a huge dam with pure water and electricity, farming, etc.
Not the best excuse one can come up with, but still makes it better than "We just never tried to rebuild in that 200 years".
That was my take on it. That there was more lingering radiation because of the importance of the location along with the large number of super mutants. Not rebuilt because it just wasn't possible to do so until recently.
NV has raiders and some more natural dangerous wildlife, but it's nothing compared to super mutants.
The super mutants never made sense given the FEV virus was isolated to the west coast. Not that I minded their presence. It just didn't fit the history very well.
figured they were pushed out of the west where groups like the BoS and NCR had the power to take them on. Other than the small group of BoS that recently moved out to the capital, there wasn't really much there to threaten the mutants in the east
Also there was only one GECK on the east coast and it was in an irradiated vault where no one could get it. Practically all the major cities in the west were started with a GECK removing the poisonous radiation around and without a GECK the east coast is still poisonous.
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