Transplant vs native

[Anonymous]

In DC. How do you tell them apart? What sticks out?

[Anonymous]

The DMV is the Department of Motor Vehicles. Any other use indicates transplant.

[Anonymous]

Also, it's National Airport to Natives. Not "Reagan."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In DC. How do you tell them apart? What sticks out?

They ask questions like this.

[Anonymous]

This argument always cracks me up. As if being a native is some sort of flex. It just isn’t

[Anonymous]

People who move here from NYC/NJ bring a sort of...energy and attitude I recognize right away. Regional accents give transplants away, fir the most part.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The DMV is the Department of Motor Vehicles. Any other use indicates transplant.

Except I can tell also tell you’re not a native (to Maryland) if you call the place where you get your driver’s license and tags “the DMV”. Because it’s not called that in Maryland and no one who grew up up here calls it that.

[Anonymous]

This is even more stupid and boring than arguing about native plants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The DMV is the Department of Motor Vehicles. Any other use indicates transplant.

Except I can tell also tell you’re not a native (to Maryland) if you call the place where you get your driver’s license and tags “the DMV”. Because it’s not called that in Maryland and no one who grew up up here calls it that.

That’s not true, I grew up here and I call it that. I feel like it WAS called that when I went there to get my license? I don’t care, I still call it that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The DMV is the Department of Motor Vehicles. Any other use indicates transplant.

I think that is more generational. We used to call it NCA, but I don’t hear that anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In DC. How do you tell them apart? What sticks out?

How long before a transplant acclimates? I call the airport National.

Before smart phones, there was an article in the Post about 8 secret ways to get around DC and I knew all but one of them. That made me feel like a local, but I’m not. I just read and studied the ADC maps. I came in 1987 for a one year internship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In DC. How do you tell them apart? What sticks out?

How long before a transplant acclimates? I call the airport National.

Before smart phones, there was an article in the Post about 8 secret ways to get around DC and I knew all but one of them. That made me feel like a local, but I’m not. I just read and studied the ADC maps. I came in 1987 for a one year internship.

Never. You weren't here during your formative years.

[Anonymous]

Natives understand "which hospital?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The DMV is the Department of Motor Vehicles. Any other use indicates transplant.

I think that is more generational. We used to call it NCA, but I don’t hear that anymore.

We called it MVA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In DC. How do you tell them apart? What sticks out?

How long before a transplant acclimates? I call the airport National.

Before smart phones, there was an article in the Post about 8 secret ways to get around DC and I knew all but one of them. That made me feel like a local, but I’m not. I just read and studied the ADC maps. I came in 1987 for a one year internship.

I always tell my transplant friends they're honorary DC natives if they stay here past 2 presidential election cycles