How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
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Anonymous
| What are DC area traits/signs that make you realize someone is or isn't from here? |
Anonymous
| when they say "I work for the government." and not in what capacity or department |
Anonymous
| Calling it National Airport |
Anonymous
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They are stressing about Russian School of Math, AoPS, SATs, or getting into Ivies.
I went to a W school feeder for 7th grade and was asked to take the SATs that year by the JHU CTY program. Then I moved away. I enjoyed the new location better. Being in MoCo for 1.25 school years left a mark. I came back after college for a job for 8 years but left to raise my kids elsewhere. But I still like this site. And I about fell over when an actual educated in Russia immigrant brought Beast Academy materials to a parent meeting at my school district. I was the only one who knew what she had there. |
Anonymous
| NPR tote bag and comfortable shoes. |
Anonymous
| "I work in research" |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| When I worked for DOJ in NYC, my friends and I would joke that we could identify the HQ people by their dowdy suits. |
Anonymous
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I live in the DMV.
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Anonymous
| DMV |
Anonymous
+2. |
Anonymous
Zero natives I know use this term, so hopefully this was posted as a mark of the opposite? |
Anonymous
I’m not from there (was a transplant for 5 years). I call it National bc I’m old. |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
+1 but also because eff Ronald Reagan and the movement to name something after him in every state. |