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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in the DMV.

Zero natives I know use this term, so hopefully this was posted as a mark of the opposite?

+1. ZERO.

We say:

DC
DC Metro area
NoVa
Suburban Maryland
Metro DC





“DMV” is where you get your license. Unless you’re from MD, then it’s “MVA”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in the DMV.

Zero natives I know use this term, so hopefully this was posted as a mark of the opposite?

Yeah, that's more of something that people who moved here after college, but maybe have lived here for a while, use.

If you grew up here you're too old for it to feel natural, even though it's been around a while.

I am born and raised inside the beltway. In VA, Md and DC. I always say DMV. I'm early 40s.

I think it was pretty commonly used back in the 80s and 90s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in the DMV.

Zero natives I know use this term, so hopefully this was posted as a mark of the opposite?

+1. ZERO.

We say:

DC
DC Metro area
NoVa
Suburban Maryland
Metro DC


“DMV” is where you get your license. Unless you’re from MD, then it’s “MVA”.

"We say?" Tell me you're a white suburbanite without telling me you're white suburbanite.

I bet "we say" Anacostia when referring to any part of DC east of the river too, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling it National Airport

+1

I’m not from there (was a transplant for 5 years). I call it National bc I’m old.

+1 but also because eff Ronald Reagan and the movement to name something after him in every state.

And it is highly ironic to see the statue of Reagan at National since he gutted the air traffic controllers union.

Duh, that was the point of naming the airport after him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in the DMV.

Zero natives I know use this term, so hopefully this was posted as a mark of the opposite?

+1. ZERO.

We say:

DC
DC Metro area
NoVa
Suburban Maryland
Metro DC





“DMV” is where you get your license. Unless you’re from MD, then it’s “MVA”.

Actually, many elders call it the District.

[Anonymous]

The non-natives stop like the mercedes at lights. Often twice as far back. Further, they think the other car is doing it wrong (they're not - that thick line is called the 'Stop Line' and is where the front of your car should be).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in the DMV.

Nope - a native would not call it DMV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in the DMV.

Zero natives I know use this term, so hopefully this was posted as a mark of the opposite?

Yeah, that's more of something that people who moved here after college, but maybe have lived here for a while, use.

If you grew up here you're too old for it to feel natural, even though it's been around a while.

I am born and raised inside the beltway. In VA, Md and DC. I always say DMV. I'm early 40s.

I think it was pretty commonly used back in the 80s and 90s.

It was not - was only in past 10 years or so this became common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The non-natives stop like the mercedes at lights. Often twice as far back. Further, they think the other car is doing it wrong (they're not - that thick line is called the 'Stop Line' and is where the front of your car should be).

If you drive a ridiculous monstrous truck or SUV like so many people around here do you should absolutely not be stopping that close to the line. The entire crosswalk will be in your blind zone:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The non-natives stop like the mercedes at lights. Often twice as far back. Further, they think the other car is doing it wrong (they're not - that thick line is called the 'Stop Line' and is where the front of your car should be).

If you drive a ridiculous monstrous truck or SUV like so many people around here do you should absolutely not be stopping that close to the line. The entire crosswalk will be in your blind zone:

Those are some short school kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in the DMV.

Zero natives I know use this term, so hopefully this was posted as a mark of the opposite?

+1. ZERO.

We say:

DC
DC Metro area
NoVa
Suburban Maryland
Metro DC





“DMV” is where you get your license. Unless you’re from MD, then it’s “MVA”.

Actually, many elders call it the District.

The district or “DC proper”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being FROM here? Probably that theyre not in the "OMG isnt DC so cool?" weird self important vibe that many transplants have. They often have an aversion to talking politics or the other virtue signaling topics a lot of the transplant types love

Yeah. The hometown industry is politics. Our parents worked in it or adjacent to it. Our friends parents did too. It’s what you talk about at work. You don’t need to live and breathe it. I also think the 2nd+ generation political types are also by far the most practical and reasonable. Very few right or left ideologues. Nearly all hate Trump though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling it National Airport

What do non-natives call it!!

I'm a non-native and I call it National. I did use the airport before they changed its name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The non-natives stop like the mercedes at lights. Often twice as far back. Further, they think the other car is doing it wrong (they're not - that thick line is called the 'Stop Line' and is where the front of your car should be).

I have never noticed this difference but now have seen it twice on this thread.
DC people are more anxious toget going and get ahead even when it's illogical?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in the DMV.

Zero natives I know use this term, so hopefully this was posted as a mark of the opposite?

Yeah, that's more of something that people who moved here after college, but maybe have lived here for a while, use.

If you grew up here you're too old for it to feel natural, even though it's been around a while.

I am born and raised inside the beltway. In VA, Md and DC. I always say DMV. I'm early 40s.

I think it was pretty commonly used back in the 80s and 90s.

It was not - was only in past 10 years or so this became common.

Correct, people are making S$% up.