How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
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Anonymous
+1,000,000 It drives me insane. |
Anonymous
Hookers on 14th ST and Mr. Henry’s for underage drinking. |
Anonymous
Wait, I’m confused. So are you’re saying your auntie was priced out of owning TWO homes? Or are you saying that she sold her row house for a nice profit and bought a big SFH in MD because she didn’t want to do repairs on her own home. |
Anonymous
Lol 10 years ago? Have you even flipped past a black radio station in the last 30 years? |
Anonymous
| We refer to the general area as "DC." Non-natives view crossing the line into Maryland/Virginia as no longer "being in DC." As a general rule, if the metro/WMATA line extends to your area, you are "in DC." |
Anonymous
| If you refer to DC as "Washington," dead giveaway that you aren't from here. |
Anonymous
Very true! Then transients — who, for the most part have only looked to other transients and relatively recent transplants for socializing— complain that people in what they call the DMV are less than friendly. |
Anonymous
Disagree. Growing up (in my case in the 60s-70s) everyone referred to it as Washington. And it definitely meant the broader area. The house I grew up in in Bethesda had a Washington address until sometime in the 70s when 20816 was created (used to be part of 20016). |
Anonymous
Anyone remember The Bank on F Street? https://ggwash.org/view/13059/once-a-bank-and-a-nightclub-historic-f-street-building-readies-for-next-step And these bookstores: Waldenbooks, Crown Books, Kramerbooks & Afterwards. Radio: WHFS, and Weasel (the best) + HFSFestival, The Don and Mike Show, Q107, WPGC |
Anonymous
LOL you are from the suburbs, huh? Native from DC here and no. |
Anonymous
Yep. Grew up in DC in 80s and 90s and still call it Washington unless I am talking to newbies. |
Anonymous
Yes! So many great memories |
Anonymous
Nope. Nobody from DC calls it Washington. Signed, -70s/80s Native |
Anonymous
Let me guess, white and under 40? |
Anonymous
DP: I won’t try to speak for the PP. I do want to point out that what people like you insist upon calling “a nice profit” is rarely if ever enough to buy another home in our original neighborhoods. And the taxes and insurance are killers once the assessed value of the houses shoot up precipitously once gentrification hits. So yeah, people often move to MD — but for most, buying in their original neighborhoods is no longer a realistically affordable option. — I said I wouldn’t do this, and the PP can correct this if I’m wrong. But: I understood this as: the aunt sold her huge DC townhouse because of damage, and because she did not have the funds for repairs. She was able to get enough money from the sale to purchase a house in MD. (We don’t know if she has a mortgage on the MD house.) I’m guessing this because I’ve known people— who were retired and on relatively small, fixed incomes, who had long owned houses that were 100 years old or more. The houses began to need repairs— roofs, rewiring, plumbing — that they then, could not afford, in part because of gentrification, and consequent increases in taxes and insurance, as well as in the costs of doing major repairs. Sometimes the houses are damaged because of major renovations and new construction on adjacent row houses, damaging properties that then irrevocably change people’s lives along with their old neighborhoods. So people paid off their mortgages and set aside funds for expected repairs— but hadn’t planned for or envisioned the exponentially higher expenses for pretty much everything that gentrification created. |