We found the person who gets really worked up when MD/VA people say they're "from DC"

[Anonymous]

Precisely

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I'm not living in NYC, I won't say IN NYC. I'll say NEAR NYC.

No you don’t. Because then they say “oh where, Jersey? Connecticut? And the point of answering as vaguely as possible is to stop the small talk.

[Anonymous]

Never in my life have I met anyone answer the question “where are you from” with “near… “. never.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I'm not living in NYC, I won't say IN NYC. I'll say NEAR NYC.

No you don’t. Because then they say “oh where, Jersey? Connecticut? And the point of answering as vaguely as possible is to stop the small talk.

exactly. You did not answer the question and you are making the conversation awkward by being too technical. this is not supposed to be a discussion.

[Anonymous]

Pick your lane. You complain about DC and decamp for the suburbs to escape it, but then won’t name the suburban “paradise” you moved to? Why not shout that cultured locale full of life from the rooftops?

Anyway, who cares, we can tell most of the time, you’re just embarrassing yourselves. It’s like claiming to be from Manhattan when you’re from Dumbo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Petula Dvorak has long been the most insipid and inane columnist on the Post’s staff so it’s only fitting she’d pen this column.

And, no, I don’t claim to be “from DC” while living in the burbs. It’s just that she’s the queen of banality. The Post used to have interesting columnists like Jeanne Marie Laskas and Jennifer Moses. Dvorak is just utterly predictable dreck.

Living in DC is her personality and she slams the suburbs as often as she can.

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Anonymous wrote:This is so pretentious. I've lived in nine cities in three countries; nobody thinks anyone is glamorous being from DC!

Amen! People in other places think it's full of poorly-dressed, government boors (not untrue). Also, as soon as you cross the boundary from Arlington into the District, you're met with a cloud of pot smoke.

[Anonymous]

Ok sure, keep proving my point. Everyone living in proper cities feels this way: Manhattan, London, Paris, San Francisco. No one is sending the memo to the burbs.

Bethesda isn’t DC; neither is McLean (I’ll allow Chain Bridge). Croydon isn’t London. Don’t get Parisians started on people pretending to be from Paris.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok sure, keep proving my point. Everyone living in proper cities feels this way: Manhattan, London, Paris, San Francisco. No one is sending the memo to the burbs.

Bethesda isn’t DC; neither is McLean (I’ll allow Chain Bridge). Croydon isn’t London. Don’t get Parisians started on people pretending to be from Paris.

Manhattan is not a city. I lived there for many years and never answer the question "where are you from" with "I am from Manhattan". That would be as weird as saying "I am from near DC" or "I am from Great Falls". If the person wants to know more, which is often not the case, they say "where in NYC" or "where in DC". ONLY THEN you say "I live in Bethesda" or "I live in Manhattan". The person asking needs to show you that they actually care about those details before you start giving them your zip code.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pick your lane. You complain about DC and decamp for the suburbs to escape it, but then won’t name the suburban “paradise” you moved to? Why not shout that cultured locale full of life from the rooftops?

Anyway, who cares, we can tell most of the time, you’re just embarrassing yourselves. It’s like claiming to be from Manhattan when you’re from Dumbo.

Because many people don't know where that is. Does that register with you?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok sure, keep proving my point. Everyone living in proper cities feels this way: Manhattan, London, Paris, San Francisco. No one is sending the memo to the burbs.

Bethesda isn’t DC; neither is McLean (I’ll allow Chain Bridge). Croydon isn’t London. Don’t get Parisians started on people pretending to be from Paris.

Manhattan is not a city. I lived there for many years and never answer the question "where are you from" with "I am from Manhattan". That would be as weird as saying "I am from near DC" or "I am from Great Falls". If the person wants to know more, which is often not the case, they say "where in NYC" or "where in DC". ONLY THEN you say "I live in Bethesda" or "I live in Manhattan". The person asking needs to show you that they actually care about those details before you start giving them your zip code.

This. Some of you need to brush up on social skills. This is not a contest, a resume, or a background check, it’s small talk.

And lol that anyone can “tell” whether you’re from DC or on the west side of Chain Bridge. Although based on some of these replies, maybe lacking social skills IS a DC thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok sure, keep proving my point. Everyone living in proper cities feels this way: Manhattan, London, Paris, San Francisco. No one is sending the memo to the burbs.

Bethesda isn’t DC; neither is McLean (I’ll allow Chain Bridge). Croydon isn’t London. Don’t get Parisians started on people pretending to be from Paris.

Greater London is 600+ square miles. City of London is 1 square mile. I can assure you that people in greater London say they're from London.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok sure, keep proving my point. Everyone living in proper cities feels this way: Manhattan, London, Paris, San Francisco. No one is sending the memo to the burbs.

Bethesda isn’t DC; neither is McLean (I’ll allow Chain Bridge). Croydon isn’t London. Don’t get Parisians started on people pretending to be from Paris.

Manhattan is not a city. I lived there for many years and never answer the question "where are you from" with "I am from Manhattan". That would be as weird as saying "I am from near DC" or "I am from Great Falls". If the person wants to know more, which is often not the case, they say "where in NYC" or "where in DC". ONLY THEN you say "I live in Bethesda" or "I live in Manhattan". The person asking needs to show you that they actually care about those details before you start giving them your zip code.

Because you’re NOT from Manhattan. If you were you would. You can guess how I know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok sure, keep proving my point. Everyone living in proper cities feels this way: Manhattan, London, Paris, San Francisco. No one is sending the memo to the burbs.

Bethesda isn’t DC; neither is McLean (I’ll allow Chain Bridge). Croydon isn’t London. Don’t get Parisians started on people pretending to be from Paris.

Greater London is 600+ square miles. City of London is 1 square mile. I can assure you that people in greater London say they're from London.

This is really fun. If you’re from DC but not from the National Mall you’re still from DC. If you’re from the suburbs you’re from the Burbs. Try harder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pick your lane. You complain about DC and decamp for the suburbs to escape it, but then won’t name the suburban “paradise” you moved to? Why not shout that cultured locale full of life from the rooftops?

Anyway, who cares, we can tell most of the time, you’re just embarrassing yourselves. It’s like claiming to be from Manhattan when you’re from Dumbo.

Because many people don't know where that is. Does that register with you?

Oh, it does. Which is why I don’t live in noknowville. And for many other reasons such as that why?!