s/o Where do the cool, grounded parents live?

[Anonymous]

Shaw, Bloomingdale, and Eckington, at least the ones who are left are pretty chill
Brookland, unless they bought a flip really recently
Takoma DC
Hill East

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're all out here in the midwest.

Why are people in the Midwest on this site?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're all out here in the midwest.

Why are people in the Midwest on this site?

Because I lived in DC for 5 years, including the years when I had babies. DCUM is my guilty pleasure!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC Native also. Arlington actually, but when I was growing up (80s) DC Native meant the DC area. Because with the exception of the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor, no one raised a kid in DC proper. If you were a middle class white kid from Dc you could be from Bethesda, Annandale, Alexandria, Silver Spring etc.

My wife is a DC native also, hailing from Potomac.

That's the thing about a lot of the annoying newcomers. They think you have to have been raised on 14th street to be a native. No one lived on 14th street in the 80s I tell them and they look at me like I'm crazy.

I mean no, some of us grew up in DC in the 80s/90s and didn’t fit that mold. Definitely fewer than now, for sure, though.

And we got annoyed as hell when people from Potomac or Arlington said they are “from DC”!

Seriously. I know lots of DC natives, but all are from DC, not friggin' Potomac.

Only cool, grounded people get annoyed as hell about such things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC Native also. Arlington actually, but when I was growing up (80s) DC Native meant the DC area. Because with the exception of the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor, no one raised a kid in DC proper. If you were a middle class white kid from Dc you could be from Bethesda, Annandale, Alexandria, Silver Spring etc.

My wife is a DC native also, hailing from Potomac.

That's the thing about a lot of the annoying newcomers. They think you have to have been raised on 14th street to be a native. No one lived on 14th street in the 80s I tell them and they look at me like I'm crazy.

I mean no, some of us grew up in DC in the 80s/90s and didn’t fit that mold. Definitely fewer than now, for sure, though.

And we got annoyed as hell when people from Potomac or Arlington said they are “from DC”!

Is it true kids in DC were bussed to public schools in NoVa during the 80s? Many years ago in college I met a woman who grew up in anacostia and she said she and her college bound classmates were bussed to public schools in Northern Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're all out here in the midwest.

Why are people in the Midwest on this site?

What else is there to do in the Midwest?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC Native also. Arlington actually, but when I was growing up (80s) DC Native meant the DC area. Because with the exception of the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor, no one raised a kid in DC proper. If you were a middle class white kid from Dc you could be from Bethesda, Annandale, Alexandria, Silver Spring etc.

My wife is a DC native also, hailing from Potomac.

That's the thing about a lot of the annoying newcomers. They think you have to have been raised on 14th street to be a native. No one lived on 14th street in the 80s I tell them and they look at me like I'm crazy.

I mean no, some of us grew up in DC in the 80s/90s and didn’t fit that mold. Definitely fewer than now, for sure, though.

And we got annoyed as hell when people from Potomac or Arlington said they are “from DC”!

Seriously. I know lots of DC natives, but all are from DC, not friggin' Potomac.

Wow, the outrage!
DC is such a huge and cosmopolitan city that friggin' Potomac can't even compare.
Chill, PP. Compared to major cities in world, and even in this country, DC is a small, provincial town.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Posting like the 5th yes to Silver Spring: 20910, 20902, 20901

Yes! Another vote for Silver Spring - 20910 and 20901.

[Anonymous]

Potomac

[Anonymous]

No where within dCUM. Drinking beers on your porch does not = laid back. That’s a facade a lot of DC ppl put forth- they are the very opposite. Get sucked in at your own risk

[Anonymous]

“Cool and grounded” is apparently the consolation prize for being middle class.

Guess it sounds better than “where do people who can’t afford Arlington and Bethesda live?”

[Anonymous]

Just choose where you want to live, engage in activities you enjoy, and you’ll attract the people who are most like you.

25-year resident of the District here and I emphatically agree with the bolded. I can't depend on my neighbors staying put and perpetuating the laid back ethos — they age, they move, they die. Meanwhile, homes on my block now start at $1.5 million (instead of $300k), so when the laid back boomer moves to Maine, she's replaced by Tracy Flick and Mr. Tracy Flick.

I generally have to drive to find my people at dirty live music bars, vintage guitar stores, the backwoods, meetup groups for my ridiculous breed of dogs ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Posting like the 5th yes to Silver Spring: 20910, 20902, 20901

Yes! Another vote for Silver Spring - 20910 and 20901.

+1

[Anonymous]

Baltimore, specifically Hampden, Hamilton/Lauraville, and Mt Washington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Cool and grounded” is apparently the consolation prize for being middle class.

Guess it sounds better than “where do people who can’t afford Arlington and Bethesda live?”

LOL. The uptight, DC dorks are getting upset. Relax, people in Dumbo and Santa Monica are cooler and more grounded than you and you couldn’t afford a house there either.