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Why do people in DC/MD look down on Virginians?
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Anonymous
How dare those people try and live above their station. Get back to work in the server room, peons! |
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I live in DC, and have for 15 years, and I'm not going anywhere. I used to "look down" on Virginians because 1. I didn't know too many and the few who I did know were barely contained religious nutjobs (unfair, I know) and 2. SOMEBODY in that state was voting for all these unapologetically racist winning candidates. Like your current atty general, most of your senators since 1995, a huge chunk of state senators, etc etc etc. And you can't claim it's everybody but NOVA, because for the statewide elections, you need a certain % of NOVA votes to win.
THese elected legislators, judge, and admin types in turn enact/enforce/uphold legislation that is some of the most backward in the nation on a couple of topics, starting with gay rights issues. "Confederate Day." shit like that. So i think: if you are a corporate atty working on 1100 Penn. Ave, and you can afford to live in any of the 3 jurisdictions, it's sayin' something that you picked ... Virginia. But as I've mellowed with age and seen more of Virginia (with its McCain/Palin posters still standing strong out there in Warrenton and beyond) .... I have to give you guys props. Your people are much, much nicer on the whole than the populations of either DC or Maryland. Not even close. More willing to help, kinder, more genteel, more polite. |
Anonymous
Friendship Heights is in DC. It is totally metro accessible (stop is RIGHT THERE) and there is a TJ Maxx, a Loehmann's, a Filene's Basement, a Gap... or is the Tiffany's there the store you're most familiar with? You could make the argument that Georgetown is NOT in DC b/c you just have to cross the Key Bridge and you're in VA. And there is more bargain shopping at FH than in Georgetown. |
Anonymous
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Friendship Height is emphatically NOT in DC. It's a political jurisdiction (incorporated village) in Maryland.
The area to the east of the "Friendship Heights / CC" metro stop in DC is Chevy Chase. The area to the west is the end of AU Park. The area down Wisconsin is Tenleytown. There is a gray area where these 3 historic neighborhoods meet. But none of them are Friendship Heights, sorry. Sometimes, a business will call itself Friendship Hts. tho, but that doesn't change history or the name on the property deed. |
Anonymous
if you cannot respect people with different political opinions, if you are THAT intolerant, then stay in DC |
Anonymous
The shopping/commercial area (which is what is being discussed here) IS in DC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_Heights And you don't need to say sorry. |
Anonymous
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if you cannot respect people with different political opinions, if you are THAT intolerant, then stay in DC
It's not just "different political opinions." It's flaunting slavery with its own special day (which has now been subdued, thankfully). It's ensuring that all humans are not equal, at least the gay ones aren't. Stuff like that is basic human decency, don't you think? |
Anonymous
I live here, I am looking at the "shopping area" out my window (the Pavillion, to be exact), and the deed to my 1915 house describes the property as being located in Chevy Chase, District of Columbia. Now what are you going to do? |
Anonymous
Good. I'm not the one quibbling about this area not being DC... a PP is doing that (the one who brought AU Park, Tenleytown, etc into the conversation). I'm glad you live in DC. |
Anonymous
no, it is a difference of political opinion. obviously there wasn't a day honoring slavery, don't be stupid. but again, you are intolerant, so stay away. |
Anonymous
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I do think that more conservative people tend to pick VA over MD. So for me, as a more liberal leaning moderate, I would rather live in MD, where people seem a bit more tolerant to me. I like Montgomery County because in addition to racial diversity, it has a large and engaged Jewish population (I am Episcopalian, FWIW), a very diverse and vibrant immigrant community that is not marginalized and stigmatized to the extent that it is in VA (hello racist Prince William County), and I support the elected officials. I can't say the same for most of Northern Virginia.
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Anonymous
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I live in VA and at LEAST I have congress representation...unlike DC peeps...
I grew up in MD and love VA much better. Plus...we have WEGMANS!! I don't look down or up at any other area... |
Anonymous
funny. I'm a conservative that lives in Northern Virginia, and I have two democrat senators, a democrat congressman, a democrat assemblyman, and a democrat-dominated county government. I wish it was as your imagination thinks it is. |
Anonymous
| Not arguing that the pavillion has a DC address. Just pointing out that it is really just a suburb of Chevy Chase. If you checked the IDs of people who shop here, I'll bet you anything 99.9% of them are from MD. |
Anonymous
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"So i think: if you are a corporate atty working on 1100 Penn. Ave, and you can afford to live in any of the 3 jurisdictions, it's sayin' something that you picked ... Virginia."
As far as I know, there is only ONE law firm at 1100 Pennsylvania!! And I work there. And yes, I picked VA. Are you talking directly to me?? 
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