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

[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?

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.

Not the 90s. I remember when people started using it in the 00s or later. So lame.

[Anonymous]

DMV is for millenial suburbanites.

[Anonymous]

People riding metro in suits

[Anonymous]

People go cuckoo over snow

[Anonymous]

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

My DH brought this up just a couple of days ago. He grew up in NYC and went to college in north Jersey plus a year in Europe so he was familiar with like a dozen mass transit systems prior to moving here for grad school. His FIRST DAY on the Metro someone told him not to stand on the left, apparently that’s not something that happens anywhere else.

[Anonymous]

They're nice and they don't ask who you work for the first 3 seconds of meeting.

[Anonymous]

You drive a G Wagon.

[Anonymous]

Not sure if it’s been covered so, disdain for “flyover country.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if it’s been covered so, disdain for “flyover country.”

Actually, those with the most disdain for flyover country are the bumpkin strivers FROM THERE! They're also often estranged from their families and have all sorts of weird hangups and inferiority complexes.

[Anonymous]

I've lived here 75 years but some people feel I talk like a New Yorker whatever that means.