Are people in the DC area just a different kind of rude?

[Anonymous]

I wonder if there is a correlation between knowing how to have fun and black / native DC residents being friendlier than status-seeking transplants.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

There are other work centric cities in the US and people seem to have more fun!

How are you living in DC and hanging out at a brewery, backyArd with friends, going to the beach? There aren’t any nice beaches nearby. It’s typically too hot to hang in a backyard with kids. Where is a nearby brewery?

I think part of the reason people are so rude and unfriendly is the lack of ability to have fun. There aren’t many places to go have fun. Which is evident by how many people leave DC in the summer. People vacation to go have fun. If you live in NY or LA, wealthy people might head out to a place like the Hamptons for the summer but it’s still relatively close by.

Nobody stays in NYC in the summer. Uptown is a ghost town in August. I have plenty of fun in DC. We have bbqs or drinks with friends, do playdates at parks or in each other's backyards, go for hikes, go to the club to swim or play tennis or golf, etc. This weekend our friends went tubing, though we couldn't join. This coming weekend I have a book club meeting with friends and a friend's bday dinner and a friend's kid's bday party.

I just said they go to the Hamptons. There is nowhere close to DC fun to go.

Not sure where you hike as the closest decent hiking is 1.5-2 hrs away. Kids birthday parties? Yawn. Tubing? No thanks.

Swimming at the club sounds nice. I’ll give you that. But the rest sounds very well....not a lot of fun.

[Anonymous]

Even among black residents, there's a noticeable difference between older folks (who will *always* do the nod in passing) and younger folks (who often barrel past at times seemingly going out of their way not to notice you). Could be a lot of younger black people in the trendy neighborhoods are transplants and every bit as status-seeking and unfriendly as the typical DCUM complainant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There are other work centric cities in the US and people seem to have more fun!

How are you living in DC and hanging out at a brewery, backyArd with friends, going to the beach? There aren’t any nice beaches nearby. It’s typically too hot to hang in a backyard with kids. Where is a nearby brewery?

I think part of the reason people are so rude and unfriendly is the lack of ability to have fun. There aren’t many places to go have fun. Which is evident by how many people leave DC in the summer. People vacation to go have fun. If you live in NY or LA, wealthy people might head out to a place like the Hamptons for the summer but it’s still relatively close by.

Nobody stays in NYC in the summer. Uptown is a ghost town in August. I have plenty of fun in DC. We have bbqs or drinks with friends, do playdates at parks or in each other's backyards, go for hikes, go to the club to swim or play tennis or golf, etc. This weekend our friends went tubing, though we couldn't join. This coming weekend I have a book club meeting with friends and a friend's bday dinner and a friend's kid's bday party.

I just said they go to the Hamptons. There is nowhere close to DC fun to go.

Not sure where you hike as the closest decent hiking is 1.5-2 hrs away. Kids birthday parties? Yawn. Tubing? No thanks.

Swimming at the club sounds nice. I’ll give you that. But the rest sounds very well....not a lot of fun.

Most of the New Yorkers I know (which is a lot as DH grew up on the UES and his whole family lives in Manhattan) don't go to the Hamptons. Some do, but others go to MV/Nantucket, Fishers Island, Maine, Vermont, Westchester/Fairfield, Hudson Valley, etc. Many of those places aren't that close. As for hiking, my kids are K and younger so Billy Goat and Rock Creek Park work for us. And I like attending my friends' kids' birthdays because it's a chance to hang out with my friends. If your definition of fun is exclusively going to the beach, I have no idea what's available within driving distance though I know some people like the Eastern Shore, but places like Charleston are also basically a 1-hour flight. If you can't find ways to have fun and don't have friends here who help you have fun, that may be on you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes.

Lived in many places. DMV people are the scum of the Earth, grade A aholes.

Comes w/ the territory. They all think they're hot S because they're educated. These are the same people though who have zero qualms about destroying the country through their lobbying/consulting jobs, war machine contractor jobs, etc. etc. It's so funny.

Everyone in the DMV are self-center jerkweeds who think they're god's gift to the world. GET OUT OF MY WAY BECAUSE I'M #1.

I can’t understand why you are having trouble finding fun people to hang with in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There are other work centric cities in the US and people seem to have more fun!

How are you living in DC and hanging out at a brewery, backyArd with friends, going to the beach? There aren’t any nice beaches nearby. It’s typically too hot to hang in a backyard with kids. Where is a nearby brewery?

I think part of the reason people are so rude and unfriendly is the lack of ability to have fun. There aren’t many places to go have fun. Which is evident by how many people leave DC in the summer. People vacation to go have fun. If you live in NY or LA, wealthy people might head out to a place like the Hamptons for the summer but it’s still relatively close by.

Nobody stays in NYC in the summer. Uptown is a ghost town in August. I have plenty of fun in DC. We have bbqs or drinks with friends, do playdates at parks or in each other's backyards, go for hikes, go to the club to swim or play tennis or golf, etc. This weekend our friends went tubing, though we couldn't join. This coming weekend I have a book club meeting with friends and a friend's bday dinner and a friend's kid's bday party.

Nobody rich, that is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of racism in this thread.

What am I missing? Where is the racism?

Calling people “flyover strivers.”

Umm yeah, sorry. I'm a white person who will call out white flyover strivers when I spot them. #sorry_not_sorry

"flyover" is a lazy term that should probably be retired because it's used as an epithet for an immutable trait (address of birth).

Why not reflect on what you _actually_ mean? Do you mean to say "People I think are losers because they weren't born in New Jersey, like I was, and I'm awesome!" ?

Or do you actually mean "Midwest" ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes.

Lived in many places. DMV people are the scum of the Earth, grade A aholes.

Comes w/ the territory. They all think they're hot S because they're educated. These are the same people though who have zero qualms about destroying the country through their lobbying/consulting jobs, war machine contractor jobs, etc. etc. It's so funny.

Everyone in the DMV are self-center jerkweeds who think they're god's gift to the world. GET OUT OF MY WAY BECAUSE I'M #1.

I can’t understand why you are having trouble finding fun people to hang with in DC.

It is puzzling, isn't it!?! NP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There are other work centric cities in the US and people seem to have more fun!

How are you living in DC and hanging out at a brewery, backyArd with friends, going to the beach? There aren’t any nice beaches nearby. It’s typically too hot to hang in a backyard with kids. Where is a nearby brewery?

I think part of the reason people are so rude and unfriendly is the lack of ability to have fun. There aren’t many places to go have fun. Which is evident by how many people leave DC in the summer. People vacation to go have fun. If you live in NY or LA, wealthy people might head out to a place like the Hamptons for the summer but it’s still relatively close by.

Nobody stays in NYC in the summer. Uptown is a ghost town in August. I have plenty of fun in DC. We have bbqs or drinks with friends, do playdates at parks or in each other's backyards, go for hikes, go to the club to swim or play tennis or golf, etc. This weekend our friends went tubing, though we couldn't join. This coming weekend I have a book club meeting with friends and a friend's bday dinner and a friend's kid's bday party.

I just said they go to the Hamptons. There is nowhere close to DC fun to go.

Not sure where you hike as the closest decent hiking is 1.5-2 hrs away. Kids birthday parties? Yawn. Tubing? No thanks.

Swimming at the club sounds nice. I’ll give you that. But the rest sounds very well....not a lot of fun.

Most of the New Yorkers I know (which is a lot as DH grew up on the UES and his whole family lives in Manhattan) don't go to the Hamptons. Some do, but others go to MV/Nantucket, Fishers Island, Maine, Vermont, Westchester/Fairfield, Hudson Valley, etc. Many of those places aren't that close. As for hiking, my kids are K and younger so Billy Goat and Rock Creek Park work for us. And I like attending my friends' kids' birthdays because it's a chance to hang out with my friends. If your definition of fun is exclusively going to the beach, I have no idea what's available within driving distance though I know some people like the Eastern Shore, but places like Charleston are also basically a 1-hour flight. If you can't find ways to have fun and don't have friends here who help you have fun, that may be on you.

I am aware of where New Yorkers go on vacation. NYC has close proximity to many fun places. Unlike DC.

I used to think perhaps there was something wrong with me or that I was the problem in terms of being able to make friends and have fun in DC. Then I moved to another city and it’s night and day. I have more friends in a year than I had in ten years living in NW DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There are other work centric cities in the US and people seem to have more fun!

How are you living in DC and hanging out at a brewery, backyArd with friends, going to the beach? There aren’t any nice beaches nearby. It’s typically too hot to hang in a backyard with kids. Where is a nearby brewery?

I think part of the reason people are so rude and unfriendly is the lack of ability to have fun. There aren’t many places to go have fun. Which is evident by how many people leave DC in the summer. People vacation to go have fun. If you live in NY or LA, wealthy people might head out to a place like the Hamptons for the summer but it’s still relatively close by.

Nobody stays in NYC in the summer. Uptown is a ghost town in August. I have plenty of fun in DC. We have bbqs or drinks with friends, do playdates at parks or in each other's backyards, go for hikes, go to the club to swim or play tennis or golf, etc. This weekend our friends went tubing, though we couldn't join. This coming weekend I have a book club meeting with friends and a friend's bday dinner and a friend's kid's bday party.

I just said they go to the Hamptons. There is nowhere close to DC fun to go.

Not sure where you hike as the closest decent hiking is 1.5-2 hrs away. Kids birthday parties? Yawn. Tubing? No thanks.

Swimming at the club sounds nice. I’ll give you that. But the rest sounds very well....not a lot of fun.

Most of the New Yorkers I know (which is a lot as DH grew up on the UES and his whole family lives in Manhattan) don't go to the Hamptons. Some do, but others go to MV/Nantucket, Fishers Island, Maine, Vermont, Westchester/Fairfield, Hudson Valley, etc. Many of those places aren't that close. As for hiking, my kids are K and younger so Billy Goat and Rock Creek Park work for us. And I like attending my friends' kids' birthdays because it's a chance to hang out with my friends. If your definition of fun is exclusively going to the beach, I have no idea what's available within driving distance though I know some people like the Eastern Shore, but places like Charleston are also basically a 1-hour flight. If you can't find ways to have fun and don't have friends here who help you have fun, that may be on you.

You sound like the typical insufferable DC resident. Condescending talk about how NYers don’t stay in the city during the summer (who doesn’t know this)? Then next writing out a list of all of the places they go instead of the Hamptons. Do you even hear yourself? The point of PP was that a lot of people in DC travel to far away places to have fun during the summer because there aren’t as many fun places close by. Not to find out if you think Fischers island is somewhere a new Yorker could go on summer vacation. JFC

[Anonymous]

How are you living in DC and hanging out at a brewery, backyArd with friends, going to the beach? There aren’t any nice beaches nearby. It’s typically too hot to hang in a backyard with kids. Where is a nearby brewery?

DP here. Are you serious? It seems from your tone and context that you ARE serious, but this is such a bizarre insinuation that I can't help but clarify.

I mean, yes, I realize that the District of Columbia is not Malibu or Daytona with beaches that are steps from homes. However, there is this wonderful thing called a "car" and you can own or rent one and drive it for a couple of hours and spend the day at the beach.

Backyard & kids on a DC summer day? Sprinkler. Kiddie pool. $13 box fans for the parents. Apologies to the apartment dwellers for being SFH-centric, but then I'd direct your attention to spray parks or pools.

Re: the brewery question, I can't even take this seriously. Please don't write back and ask "where is a nearby spray park"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

How are you living in DC and hanging out at a brewery, backyArd with friends, going to the beach? There aren’t any nice beaches nearby. It’s typically too hot to hang in a backyard with kids. Where is a nearby brewery?

DP here. Are you serious? It seems from your tone and context that you ARE serious, but this is such a bizarre insinuation that I can't help but clarify.

I mean, yes, I realize that the District of Columbia is not Malibu or Daytona with beaches that are steps from homes. However, there is this wonderful thing called a "car" and you can own or rent one and drive it for a couple of hours and spend the day at the beach.

Backyard & kids on a DC summer day? Sprinkler. Kiddie pool. $13 box fans for the parents. Apologies to the apartment dwellers for being SFH-centric, but then I'd direct your attention to spray parks or pools.

Re: the brewery question, I can't even take this seriously. Please don't write back and ask "where is a nearby spray park"

Perhaps I’m just spoiled from where I’ve lived previously, but it’s a stretch to drive to say sandy point and spend the day with kids. We knew many people living in DC and no one we knew regularly visited nearby beaches. For a reason.

I wouldn’t want to hang out in a backyard on a summer day in DC. It’s extremely humid and hot. Most people aren’t comfortable. Perhaps at night if it’s 70 degrees or cooler but you can’t count on that.

I’m serious about a brewery. I’m only aware of one local brewery and it’s not really a destination. There are some restaurants that serve local beers but not like a traditional brewery.

[Anonymous]

You sound like the typical insufferable DC resident. Condescending talk about how NYers don’t stay in the city during the summer (who doesn’t know this)? Then next writing out a list of all of the places they go instead of the Hamptons. Do you even hear yourself? The point of PP was that a lot of people in DC travel to far away places to have fun during the summer because there aren’t as many fun places close by. Not to find out if you think Fischers island is somewhere a new Yorker could go on summer vacation. JFC

Are you the probably-childless guy who started this nasty sub-topic by announcing that there is NOthing fun to do around DC and NOwhere fun to go w/in 2 hours? Then sh!t all over a responder because their idea of a fun time differs from yours?

I get it. You miss Miami or LA. DC doesn't, in fact, have a yacht party culture or anywhere to surf, and this is surely tragic. But your douchey certitude that there is no fun anywhere within a 100 mile radius suggests that you could be part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think dc is at all that bad it’s just got a ton of unattractive people I guess this is due to the professions that are popular in this area (law, non-profits)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think dc is at all that bad it’s just got a ton of unattractive people I guess this is due to the professions that are popular in this area (law, non-profits)

Am I the only one who sees the lack of obsession with looks as a plus? Why would you want live somewhere like LA or NYC where fashion is important?