Is "DMV" a low class / working class term?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with you. I grew up in NW and Chevy Chase. Now live in Arlington. No one I know calls it DMV. That’s a term for people who have to sit in tons of traffic to commute to work.

You are insufferable. I didn’t realize that people like you really exist outside of movie satires.

+1 Let's make fun of people's commutes? I bet she's on the threads sniping at people who wfh saying that they should rto!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For some reason, I find the term "DMV" extremely cringy. It feels like it's for the kind of people that listen to those mindless Top 40 radio station shows in the morning.

No one in a nice part of DC, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, or Arlington would use this term, would they?

How long have you thought that people in “nice” parts of town would not use “DMV”?

[Anonymous]

I like the term and don’t think it’s low class.

Very strange that so many of you think “dmv” is a low class term and others say the term came from the black community.

Put those two together, and this whole thread is concerning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like the term and don’t think it’s low class.

Very strange that so many of you think “dmv” is a low class term and others say the term came from the black community.

Put those two together, and this whole thread is concerning.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Stupid language evolving without my explicit permission!

Right??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For some reason, I find the term "DMV" extremely cringy. It feels like it's for the kind of people that listen to those mindless Top 40 radio station shows in the morning.

No one in a nice part of DC, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, or Arlington would use this term, would they?

Working class people are somehow cringe? Bless your heart.

[Anonymous]

Yes it's often used by people from the hood

[Anonymous]

It's not low class but it is a relatively new term that had not been used before 10-15 years ago or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not low class but it is a relatively new term that had not been used before 10-15 years ago or so.

I moved here in 2002 and it was used then.

[Anonymous]

When I moved here in 1987, NCA (National Capital Area) was the term I heard more often. At some point it changed to DMV, it took me a while since, like others, I thought of it as Dept of Motor Vehicles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I moved here in 1987, NCA (National Capital Area) was the term I heard more often. At some point it changed to DMV, it took me a while since, like others, I thought of it as Dept of Motor Vehicles.

Oh, and I lived in Brookland in the late 80’s before it was gentrified.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s wrong with people who listen to radio? I am not sure I get this question, I live in McLean and couldn’t care less how others refer to this area. Also, a lot of crooks and cringey people live in Chevy Chase, Bethesda, McLean, Arlington etc.. Ask me how I knowu…

How do you know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For some reason, I find the term "DMV" extremely cringy. It feels like it's for the kind of people that listen to those mindless Top 40 radio station shows in the morning.

No one in a nice part of DC, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, or Arlington would use this term, would they?

Working class people are somehow cringe? Bless your heart.

The poors have always been cringe on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with you. I grew up in NW and Chevy Chase. Now live in Arlington. No one I know calls it DMV. That’s a term for people who have to sit in tons of traffic to commute to work.

Thanks for explaining.

There’s a term for you, too, but it won’t get past a DCUM filter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes it's often used by people from the hood

If would be a good name for a rapper.