For Fun: How You Know You've Become a Washingtonian

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Anonymous wrote:You had me until the bridge to VA part. I've never had an issue with going to VA or MD. I feel like that's just such a weird hill to die on.

Only transplants crap on VA. Imagine being from Seattle and bragging that you never went to Bainbridge Island.

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Anonymous wrote:Really enjoyed your list, the only thing I could add is it will always be National Airport

And People’s, not CVS.

Yes! People’s! Lol

Try Dart Drug on for size, son.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You know someone who sat in the Air Florida crash traffic or who was here when it happened.

Ugh, that was awful. Metro crash the same night.

My mom's best friend had tickets to that flight. She missed it because of the weather. Got stuck coming through Old Town. She framed the ticket, which I always found Macabre.

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Anonymous wrote:You had me until the bridge to VA part. I've never had an issue with going to VA or MD. I feel like that's just such a weird hill to die on.

Only transplants crap on VA. Imagine being from Seattle and bragging that you never went to Bainbridge Island.

I find it much harder to get to Maryland from DC than to Virginia. Bridge or no bridge I’d much rather run my errands in Virginia than haul all the way through NW to get to Maryland. Virginia is much closer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You had me until the bridge to VA part. I've never had an issue with going to VA or MD. I feel like that's just such a weird hill to die on.

Only transplants crap on VA. Imagine being from Seattle and bragging that you never went to Bainbridge Island.

I find it much harder to get to Maryland from DC than to Virginia. Bridge or no bridge I’d much rather run my errands in Virginia than haul all the way through NW to get to Maryland. Virginia is much closer.

This. Huge chunks of VA are closer to the White House than are huge chunks of DC.

It's an inverse relationship. The more someone digs in on "DC Proper" the more I see them as a try outsider.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you did not grow up here, you will never be a real Washingtonian. We can sniff you out. Our radar detects you are not from among our people. Just like if I move to NYC for 20 years and started pretending I'm a New Yorker. weird.

Who the f cares?
What makes FC interesting is not arbitrary misplaced categories for what qualifies as DC nativism but all the talented and diverse people who come from all over the US and DC to make this place home for whatever length of time. We are all immigrants at some point or another.

You don’t get to decide how other people feel. If others feel at home here why are you so devoid of human kindness that you try to set down permanent impenetrable barriers to their sense of home?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You had me until the bridge to VA part. I've never had an issue with going to VA or MD. I feel like that's just such a weird hill to die on.

Only transplants crap on VA. Imagine being from Seattle and bragging that you never went to Bainbridge Island.

I find it much harder to get to Maryland from DC than to Virginia. Bridge or no bridge I’d much rather run my errands in Virginia than haul all the way through NW to get to Maryland. Virginia is much closer.

This. Huge chunks of VA are closer to the White House than are huge chunks of DC.

It's an inverse relationship. The more someone digs in on "DC Proper" the more I see them as a try outsider.

I mean many of us can walk out our doors and be in Maryland in five minutes or less. Minutes, not miles. On foot.

[Anonymous]

Born in DC at Georgetown Hospital a few days after the blizzard of 1983. My mom had to walk there while in labor from our house on R Street because they couldn’t get the car out (or through the snow).
Lived in Georgetown and then Woodley Park until I was 8 and we moved away. Returned for college and whenever I told people I was born there they would ask me which suburb.
Left after college and I’ve been in NYC for 18 years so I consider myself both a Washingtonian and a NYer. I come to DC often for work and it still feels like home. The only challenging thing for me is because I only lived there as a young child and in college I never really drove, so I’m not the greatest with directions, though I know where most things are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You had me until the bridge to VA part. I've never had an issue with going to VA or MD. I feel like that's just such a weird hill to die on.

Only transplants crap on VA. Imagine being from Seattle and bragging that you never went to Bainbridge Island.

LOL I grew up in DC and did not even know the difference between MD and VA. All the same suburban nonsense. This was the 80s-90s. Nowadays full of people who call DC "the city."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You had me until the bridge to VA part. I've never had an issue with going to VA or MD. I feel like that's just such a weird hill to die on.

Only transplants crap on VA. Imagine being from Seattle and bragging that you never went to Bainbridge Island.

I find it much harder to get to Maryland from DC than to Virginia. Bridge or no bridge I’d much rather run my errands in Virginia than haul all the way through NW to get to Maryland. Virginia is much closer.

This. Huge chunks of VA are closer to the White House than are huge chunks of DC.

It's an inverse relationship. The more someone digs in on "DC Proper" the more I see them as a try outsider.

I mean many of us can walk out our doors and be in Maryland in five minutes or less. Minutes, not miles. On foot.

I can see Maryland from my window .

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You had me until the bridge to VA part. I've never had an issue with going to VA or MD. I feel like that's just such a weird hill to die on.

Only transplants crap on VA. Imagine being from Seattle and bragging that you never went to Bainbridge Island.

LOL I grew up in DC and did not even know the difference between MD and VA. All the same suburban nonsense. This was the 80s-90s. Nowadays full of people who call DC "the city."

A product of DCPS, no doubt.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m also confused by this thread. It says “become a Washingtonian” in the title. But there’s three groups responding.


1. I’m a Washingtonian because I was born here. That’s the criteria. I was born here, Colombia hospital for women, woodys, blah blah

2. I went to Georgetown and partied. The tombs, etc.

3. I’m a transplant but this is how I know I’m a Washingtonian now. I can navigate rock creek parkway. THIS SEEMS TO BE WHAT THE THREAD IS ASKING BUT WHAT DO I KNOW.

What’s confusing about different groups of people having different criteria for something the OP left undefined?

Because half the thread is insisting that you are only a Washingtonian if you are born in Washington. That's a legitimate take, but not the point of the thread. That really has/permits no discussion. It's number three that is interesting and merits a discussion.

Ahhhh: So this thread is for transplants deciding what criteria they want to use with each other to deem themselves “real Washingtonians”. Got it. That is, indeed, interesting. Lol. Not MY thread then.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You had me until the bridge to VA part. I've never had an issue with going to VA or MD. I feel like that's just such a weird hill to die on.

Only transplants crap on VA. Imagine being from Seattle and bragging that you never went to Bainbridge Island.

I find it much harder to get to Maryland from DC than to Virginia. Bridge or no bridge I’d much rather run my errands in Virginia than haul all the way through NW to get to Maryland. Virginia is much closer.

This. Huge chunks of VA are closer to the White House than are huge chunks of DC.

It's an inverse relationship. The more someone digs in on "DC Proper" the more I see them as a try outsider.

I mean many of us can walk out our doors and be in Maryland in five minutes or less. Minutes, not miles. On foot.

But why would you want to be in Maryland?

[Anonymous]

So I may not have been born in DC but I took Jhoon Rhee classes so nobody bothers me. That’s how long I’ve been here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m also confused by this thread. It says “become a Washingtonian” in the title. But there’s three groups responding.


1. I’m a Washingtonian because I was born here. That’s the criteria. I was born here, Colombia hospital for women, woodys, blah blah

2. I went to Georgetown and partied. The tombs, etc.

3. I’m a transplant but this is how I know I’m a Washingtonian now. I can navigate rock creek parkway. THIS SEEMS TO BE WHAT THE THREAD IS ASKING BUT WHAT DO I KNOW.

What’s confusing about different groups of people having different criteria for something the OP left undefined?

Because half the thread is insisting that you are only a Washingtonian if you are born in Washington. That's a legitimate take, but not the point of the thread. That really has/permits no discussion. It's number three that is interesting and merits a discussion.

Ahhhh: So this thread is for transplants deciding what criteria they want to use with each other to deem themselves “real Washingtonians”. Got it. That is, indeed, interesting. Lol. Not MY thread then.

Sorry to state the obvious but you are a lousy ambassador for DC nativism.

Who cares if you were born here and hold yourself as some petty minded gate keeper?

You seem to have trouble with basic comprehension and inference. The title infers how people not from DC came to regard it as home.

Yes it is obviously not intended for people who have always regarded it as home.

Places some alive when seen through fresh eyes .