How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

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Anonymous wrote:They freak out if the forecast shows a slight chance of snow next week.

No, it's freezing rain that does that

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Anonymous wrote:I'm close to 60 years old and still say:
Cap center (I always chuckle after I say it)
Call team the Bullets
Still say Redskins
Will always say National
DMV - nope, but my son uses it

Yes!!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm close to 60 years old and still say:
Cap center (I always chuckle after I say it)
Call team the Bullets
Still say Redskins
Will always say National
DMV - nope, but my son uses it

These are good. To be honest I am not even sure what Cap Center is currently called 😂 (it was also mci, and something else I think?)

Yep sill think of it as mci

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Anonymous wrote:NOVA native here- 53 and in Alexandria. DMV is 100% a new thing used by transplants. No one born here before 1980 would ever use that stupid term. The DMV is where you get your license.

Born and raised here 55.

Totally! I heard it on the radio driving home from beach about 10 years ago and was so confused.

DMV is always the “department of motor vehicles”….need to go to the DMV to get my real ID. lol

Everywhere else maybe, but there are places in DMV that uses MVA (motor vehichle) for what most people know as DMV.

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Anonymous wrote:They think they know everything about the federal government, and people from elsewhere don’t even have the right to have an opinion about politics.

lol this is often true, it sounds funny reading others feel this way

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Anonymous wrote:A DC native would never self- identify as a Washingtonian. They can spot other natives, and they say what hospital to each other? They eat crabs, chilli dogs and Ethiopian food very neatly and never make a mess.

lol

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Anonymous wrote:"I work in research"

??? DH and I are scientists from Europe. We work in research. Most researchers are foreign-born, did you know that? The US, until now, needed more brains than it grew domestically. It used to be called the brain drain: talented scientists from all over the world coming to work in the US.

Now, who knows what's going to happen, but to your point: it doesn't make sense.

I think that PP's point was that people don't disclose their secret squirrel jobs, especially in defense research. People just generically say they work for the government or work in research.

I used to tell people I was a defense contractor. No one is that curious about what we did.

Or some are and will ask "what exactly do you do?" Umm...

And I would tell them that I will need to report this conversation to my security officer.

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Anonymous wrote:Calling it National Airport

What do non-natives call it!!

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Stand-offish

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Anonymous wrote:Calling it National Airport

What do non-natives call it!!

Ray-gun.

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They are cosmopolitan, meaning they easily make friends with people born somewhere else.

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They’re accustomed to hearing gunshots outside their windows.

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Anonymous wrote:They freak out if the forecast shows a slight chance of snow next week.

No, it's freezing rain that does that

Or high wind, or cooler than average, or warmer than average, or humid, or dry, or ...

People around like to freak out.

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They are obsessed with their DC being identified as SOMETHING: highly gifted, twice exceptional, advanced, a sports prodigy, a future TJHSST student…and outsource nearly everything; specialty private sports coaches, private tutors, specialists, therapists (physical and mental health), interventions and summer camps and enrichments!

These DC also have labels and IEPs and go through life as exceptional! That doesn’t work for my DC. My DC needs the following. Here’s what you do when this happens with DC. My DC needs these accommodations…or else. My DC can’t and won’t do that. Don’t ask my DC to do this. Before this happens, my DC will need advance notice so we can opt out.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people who say they are from DC, are usually from suburbs. When you ask where in DC then you find out they really are from Fairfax or Del Ray etc.

Interestingly ones who live on Capitol Hill, they downplay it and say Washington DC.

That's everywhere. People on Long Island say they are from New York City. People in Oakland say they are from San Francisco. People from Bainbridge say they are from Seattle.