Why are people in MD so rude?

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Simple: they live in Maryland.

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In Maryland, I find that only the tall people are rude. Interestingly, in DC, I find that only the short people are rude.

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Anonymous wrote:MD people are also the worst drivers.

Please start a twitter poll on the subject to enlighten yourself. There’s a reason the beltway is at a daily standstill in Virginia and has 1 or 2 pain points in Maryland

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Anonymous wrote:In Maryland, I find that only the tall people are rude. Interestingly, in DC, I find that only the short people are rude.

There's a lot of giants in MD. For sure.

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Anonymous wrote:I live on the Maryland/NW DC border and notice a difference in attitude and behavior between the two areas. People in D.C. speak to each other and seem friendly. People in MD (Bethesda) walk with their heads down or walk past you like you don’t exist. For the record, I live on the Maryland side and am new to the area and disappointed that people are so unfriendly.

I have found that people generally respond to the way you treat them. I have no problem with the people in the metropolitan area.

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It's just MoCo, not MD.

MD is lovely. But we should give MoCo to DC

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it's because we are better than you, obviously!

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Anonymous wrote:It's just MoCo, not MD.

MD is lovely. But we should give MoCo to DC

I doubt that Md wants to lose all those taxes from its wealthiest and best educated county …

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Anonymous wrote:I live on the Maryland/NW DC border and notice a difference in attitude and behavior between the two areas. People in D.C. speak to each other and seem friendly. People in MD (Bethesda) walk with their heads down or walk past you like you don’t exist. For the record, I live on the Maryland side and am new to the area and disappointed that people are so unfriendly.

I have found that people generally respond to the way you treat them. I have no problem with the people in the metropolitan area.

Plus one

Everywhere I went today in Md people said hello and smiled - maybe the nice weather and I am friendly also - but people are generally friendly to me .

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Anonymous wrote:I mean DCUM is mostly comprised of marylanders and they all hate on

1) younger looking women than them
2) Virginia
3) Dogs
4) DC natives
5) Non rich people
6) Non Liberals
7) Advocate liberalism but fear their local school will be rezoned to a "worse" school.

DCUM is mostly comprised of Marylanders? Since when?

If people in general are hating on Virginians it's just because they tend to be whiny and truly are the worst drivers on the planet. It's a bad combo

As someone from a totally different state who has lived in six different states, and local areas including Chevy Chase, Silver Spring, McLean, and Vienna, I can assure you that the state of Maryland is a piece of trash in about 20 different ways compared to Virginia. I say this as someone who is willing to commute from NoVA to Maryland for work just to avoid living in the state

*I should also add that I've lived in three different European countries (five cities). In all the countries, states, and cities I have lived in, nothing has come close to being as trash garbage as Maryland

What state are you from? You sound like a country bumpkin. Nova is where you belong

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Im 54 and definitely not discarded.

Luckily i still look great though, so maybe ill feel it later. Although my good friend is 66 and she most definitely isnt 'discarded'! She is attractive and the life of the party - in social groups of ALL ages.

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Anonymous wrote:It's just MoCo, not MD.

MD is lovely. But we should give MoCo to DC

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Anonymous wrote:MD people are also the worst drivers.

Tell that to all the VA and DC drivers we see out here in the MD suburbs. They have no clue what they are doing.

Virginia drivers are absolutely the worst in the country- it's not even up for debate, they're constantly placing in the top 2 spots

https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2022/12/12/worst-drivers-us-virginia-utah

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/virginia-drivers-among-worst-in-the-country-survey-says/65-6ed48360-aef9-4ec0-981a-ede9c85872d0

The fact that they would even try to lie and claim Maryland drivers are so awful is pretty farcical considering the data.

A Maryland driver always thinks our virginia roads are a Nascar track. You see any trouble in our local malls with a getaway driver it's always someone with maryland plates.

It's because you don't have speed cameras. When we usually drive in MD or DC, it's freeing (and cheaper) to let loose in VA.

Where we live inside the beltway and, it is Va drivers who routinely blow through stop signs, tail gate and cut off others when people are mostly politely merging lanes …

I live in DC and the Maryland drivers are the ones blowing through stop signs, stopping in the middle of the road, etc. They seem to think they are the only ones on the road.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Bethesda and don't notice this. Maybe you would think I'm rude but I'm not. I'm very friendly with sales associates/restaurant workers. I don't randomly talk to strangers on the street as I walk by though. Who does???

We do in our Bethesda neighborhood. It’s how you meet your neighbors! When I moved in 25 years ago, the older people did it and I thought it was a bit strange, having moved from DC, but now I make it a point to say hello to the young couples moving in and it’s really a nice feeling to make new acquaintances in a place that you frequent all the time.

Doesn’t happen in my Bethesda neighborhood. People keep to themselves.

Same. I have lived in my Bethesda neighborhood for 9 years, and my courtyard is filled unfriendly, cold people. One or two of them say "hello", but the rest of them won't even make eye contact. There is no sense of community, and we moved here because these townhouses looked like a friendly village. It's really depressing.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Bethesda and don't notice this. Maybe you would think I'm rude but I'm not. I'm very friendly with sales associates/restaurant workers. I don't randomly talk to strangers on the street as I walk by though. Who does???

We do in our Bethesda neighborhood. It’s how you meet your neighbors! When I moved in 25 years ago, the older people did it and I thought it was a bit strange, having moved from DC, but now I make it a point to say hello to the young couples moving in and it’s really a nice feeling to make new acquaintances in a place that you frequent all the time.

Doesn’t happen in my Bethesda neighborhood. People keep to themselves.

Same. I have lived in my Bethesda neighborhood for 9 years, and my courtyard is filled unfriendly, cold people. One or two of them say "hello", but the rest of them won't even make eye contact. There is no sense of community, and we moved here because these townhouses looked like a friendly village. It's really depressing.

They won’t “say ‘hello’” — or they won’t say “hello” back?