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

[Anonymous]

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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.

That's probably why they're distinctly labeled "preschool" children right there on the picture you decided to comment on without reading.

The scary thing is that people as inattentive and dimwitted as you are allowed to drive those monster trucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stand on the right, walk on the left on all escalators everywhere.

+1 This is the indicator.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

That's probably why they're distinctly labeled "preschool" children right there on the picture you decided to comment on without reading.

The scary thing is that people as inattentive and dimwitted as you are allowed to drive those monster trucks.

Why are preschool kids wandering in the crosswalk? Do I need to call CPS?

[Anonymous]

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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?

That's not getting ahead - it's literally called the "Stop Line" - it is where your car should stop. It is several feet before the crosswalk. Stoping a half or full car's length before it, means you're something... special.

[Anonymous]

Interesting podcast about this https://www.afar.com/podcasts/unpacked/s4-e11-the-local-side-of-washington-dc

Washington vs DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting podcast about this https://www.afar.com/podcasts/unpacked/s4-e11-the-local-side-of-washington-dc

Washington vs DC

Insufferable and incorrect. Alexandria is the oldest part of DC, not Georgetown.

What is it about insecure transplants from Ass Crack, Ohio, coming to DC and trying to hijack our history?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting podcast about this https://www.afar.com/podcasts/unpacked/s4-e11-the-local-side-of-washington-dc

Washington vs DC

Insufferable and incorrect. Alexandria is the oldest part of DC, not Georgetown.

What is it about insecure transplants from Ass Crack, Ohio, coming to DC and trying to hijack our history?

Because you got it wrong!

It's pure DC to show up and attempt to tell everyone that you know better than anyone else. Peak Dunning Kruger.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Exactly. I'm actually FROM DC (not a transplant from BFE) and I think none of my native friends posted about politics during the election. In comparison to friends from Texas and Ohio that were nonstop whining about Harris or Trump. Most of us grow up with an aversion to it because we grow up in such close proximity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting podcast about this https://www.afar.com/podcasts/unpacked/s4-e11-the-local-side-of-washington-dc

Washington vs DC

Insufferable and incorrect. Alexandria is the oldest part of DC, not Georgetown.

What is it about insecure transplants from Ass Crack, Ohio, coming to DC and trying to hijack our history?

Because you got it wrong!

It's pure DC to show up and attempt to tell everyone that you know better than anyone else. Peak Dunning Kruger.

If you want to claim Georgetown predates Alexandria, be my guest. But don't let your feelings hurt when people laugh at you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting podcast about this https://www.afar.com/podcasts/unpacked/s4-e11-the-local-side-of-washington-dc

Washington vs DC

Insufferable and incorrect. Alexandria is the oldest part of DC, not Georgetown.

What is it about insecure transplants from Ass Crack, Ohio, coming to DC and trying to hijack our history?

We didn't want Alexandria so it was given back. Its not part of DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting podcast about this https://www.afar.com/podcasts/unpacked/s4-e11-the-local-side-of-washington-dc

Washington vs DC

Insufferable and incorrect. Alexandria is the oldest part of DC, not Georgetown.

What is it about insecure transplants from Ass Crack, Ohio, coming to DC and trying to hijack our history?

Because you got it wrong!

It's pure DC to show up and attempt to tell everyone that you know better than anyone else. Peak Dunning Kruger.

If you want to claim Georgetown predates Alexandria, be my guest. But don't let your feelings hurt when people laugh at you.

Ackchyually, Alexandria is no longer part of DC. It can't be the oldest.

[Anonymous]

Oh snap! Retrocession got you!!

[Anonymous]

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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. It's a stupid thing used by young blacks.

wut? Used by young blacks? Are you serious?

I'm an "old" black. I live in DC, but am from MD. I've lived in the District for 35 years. I use DMV as do most of the people I know - even those from DC. People use it so much that I don't care. I used to never say the District and now I do b/c people sometimes assume DC means the DMV.

[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.

My kids who are DC natives and are now in college and grad-school say "DMV".

My 23 and 27 year old sons, born and raised in DC, say the DMV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We go bezerk when A holes drive 5 to 15 mph UNDER the speed limit on one lane roads during rush hour. Driving the speed limit or 5mph above during morning rush is the expectation. If youre scared or timid driving in rush hour here, pls, I implore you, take public transportation.

U R definitely from Virginia if you think that driving 5 mph over the speed limit is fast.

That totally tracks.