What is your DMV specific “sin” that would get you a scarlet letter?

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Anonymous wrote:I refer to National Airport as Reagan

Ouch

Born and raised here and I say Reagan

DOB?

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Anonymous wrote:When we travel and people ask where we are from, DH says DC. He does work there but ...

I say Arlington and they blank then say oh the cemetery ....

I get DH's pointl

: Why not just say you're from VA? I have a cousin who lives in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Who the hell knows where Cedarburg is? She never says that; she says she's from Wisconsin.

I do! super cute town!

The point of that post went right over your head.

Actually, you should provide a history since where are you from is different than where you currently live. You can't just move somewhere and start claiming that localities cachet for yourself. It needs to be earned.

I was born up north and lived in that state for 8 years. I then moved overseas for 5 years. I then moved back to the US to the Midwest for 4 years, and then I moved to a far southern state for 3 years. At 20 I moved to DC. I'm 55 now. When people ask me where I'm from I say I was born in [up north state], but I've lived in DC my whole adult life. I never mention the town where I was born unless somebody asks; unless you're familiar with that state, you wouldn't know the town.

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I hate Trump but believe we should limit immigration more (including legal educated people, many whom i work and socialize with) because it's destroyed opportunities in our country for my children. I think the world would be better if Asians stayed in Asia and made their countries better, rather than coming here to change ours. Asian countries would benefit from having these smart people innovate in place. Maybe they would develop clean energy and push it across to the rest of the world (knowing the US would be the last adopters). This would help solve climate change.

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Anonymous wrote:Calling the DC area "DMV."

It would be a sin to sneer at calling it the DMV.

You must be a transplant.

4th generation from DC and I don’t call it the DMV and get annoyed at those who do.

+1000

No greater sign of someone being a transplant than calling the region "DMV."

How do you explain all of the people who aren’t transplants that have used it for decades?

I’ve never heard a non transplant use that term unless it’s someone under the age of 25.

DMV is a black person thing, mostly a black person from the inner ring suburbs of Maryland thing.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids don’t play travel sports and I’m not interested in Larla and Larlo’s teams… sorry

Translation: My kids are un-athletic wheezing dweebs and we can’t afford travel sports anyway.

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I stated and still believe that Foggy Bottom is not core to DC but off to the side and out of the way, just like Georgetown. It's a rare side trip for people who don't live or work directly in that neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:I offered Mountain Dew to some of your kids at my son’s fifth grade birthday party. They accepted of course. One had never had any kind of soda before, a few others had only previously had sprite.

You’re welcome

😆 🤣 😂

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Anonymous wrote:I refer to National Airport as Reagan

Same

I also hate Georgetown Cupcakes

Georgetown cupcakes are 100% a tourist thing at this point. Everybody local knows they are the worst cupcakes in the area.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids don’t play travel sports and I’m not interested in Larla and Larlo’s teams… sorry

Translation: My kids are un-athletic wheezing dweebs and we can’t afford travel sports anyway.

DP: No travel sports or interest therein. I like my sleep and free time. People who do them are mindless zombies who can't think for themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids don’t play travel sports and I’m not interested in Larla and Larlo’s teams… sorry

Translation: My kids are un-athletic wheezing dweebs and we can’t afford travel sports anyway.

DP: No travel sports or interest therein. I like my sleep and free time. People who do them are mindless zombies who can't think for themselves.

+1
We're now past those days with our kids, but I absolutely hated the weekend sports rat race. So happy it's over.

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Anonymous wrote:I stated and still believe that Foggy Bottom is not core to DC but off to the side and out of the way, just like Georgetown. It's a rare side trip for people who don't live or work directly in that neighborhood.

Not the brighest are you?!

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Anonymous wrote:My son graduated from an HBCU, and not Howard, Morehouse, or any of the popular ones. My other son is not going to college.

I wish most of the people that posted on this site were actually born/raised here.

I dislike when people that don’t live in DC say they live here.

I hate going into MD and VA and avoid it as much as possible.

I didn’t graduate college.

I didn't realize this site was just for townies.

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Anonymous wrote:I live 8 miles outside the city and when I travel to other parts of the world and someone asks where I’m from, I say “DC”. Because in every other city in the country, that’s the way it is and I won’t cater to DC weirdness about it .

But you live in a whole different state, not a different city. I don’t get what’s so hard about saying - I’m from Maryland. Or - I’m from Virginia.

This is so flipping stupid. Do you think Maryland or Virginia actually means anything to someone in Brussels or Ouagadougou or Saigon?

No, but Washington DC does. I’m a native and this is a stupid *ss hill to die on.

I'm the person quoted. I'm just having an internet conversation; this is not a "hill to die on" for me. So let's say you live in Idhao. If you're visiting Brussels and someone asks you where you live, what do you say?

That's not a great example because Idaho is a rural state. A more analogous example would be telling the person you meet in Brussels that you live in LA even though you actually live in Anaheim.

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I hate cheese

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I hate the Kennedy Center and find the experience uncivilized