Transplants vs DC Natives

[Anonymous]

I am white, born on a military base and I arrived in DC soon after my birth.

I am a transplant but have lived all over the area since I was an infant.

Yes I have traveled extensively especially after high school.

I think the recent wave of mostly white transplants to the DC area some of the lamest people I have ever come across in my entire life.

[Anonymous]

Have you lived all over the area since you were an infant? Because that wasn't super clear from your 500 other posts.

[Anonymous]

Native here. Relatively younger.

I've been to your list of native events - RFK, Cap Centre, old 9:30 club, etc.

I left for college, and came back. I believe I would have returned eventually, but I wonder if 9/11 and then the snipers happening during college hastened my return. I've got an active passport, I've traveled pretty extensively within the US and outside.

I call it the DMV, and I love a Panera. There's plenty of room for everyone. Lets be honest, convenience doesn't hurt anyone.

That said, I do agree that the soul of the city is being forced out. I don't miss the crime and crack of the 90s, but I miss the culture of Chocolate City.
It's a shame to read about a barbershop that's been in business for over 50 years in Brookland being forced out of business due to rapidly rising rents and to hear it's being replaced with a FroZenYo (or whatever they opened it there).
Georgetown, Old Town Alexandria, Bethesda - these used to be clusters of small independent boutiques and now all you see are the same stores: Ann Taylor, Banana Republic, Starbucks, Sweetgreen. Even the new areas of town - City Center is just high end corporate shopping: Kate Spade and Tumi....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am white, born on a military base and I arrived in DC soon after my birth.

I am a transplant but have lived all over the area since I was an infant.

Yes I have traveled extensively especially after high school.

I think the recent wave of mostly white transplants to the DC area some of the lamest people I have ever come across in my entire life.

I totally agree. I think that's the problem most natives have with the transplants. Cities like Los Angeles and Portland attract interesting, dynamic, creative, free thinking individuals. DC just attracts the most white-bread, policy wonk types. My dad always calls them the "milk monitor" types.

And this was fine when transplants were trickling in. But now they are arriving in droves and turning DC into the most dull, lame place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you lived all over the area since you were an infant? Because that wasn't super clear from your 500 other posts.

Just identifying myself from all of the other posters because all of us are anonymous on here.

OK?????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Native here. Relatively younger.

I've been to your list of native events - RFK, Cap Centre, old 9:30 club, etc.

I left for college, and came back. I believe I would have returned eventually, but I wonder if 9/11 and then the snipers happening during college hastened my return. I've got an active passport, I've traveled pretty extensively within the US and outside.

I call it the DMV, and I love a Panera. There's plenty of room for everyone. Lets be honest, convenience doesn't hurt anyone.

That said, I do agree that the soul of the city is being forced out. I don't miss the crime and crack of the 90s, but I miss the culture of Chocolate City.
It's a shame to read about a barbershop that's been in business for over 50 years in Brookland being forced out of business due to rapidly rising rents and to hear it's being replaced with a FroZenYo (or whatever they opened it there).
Georgetown, Old Town Alexandria, Bethesda - these used to be clusters of small independent boutiques and now all you see are the same stores: Ann Taylor, Banana Republic, Starbucks, Sweetgreen. Even the new areas of town - City Center is just high end corporate shopping: Kate Spade and Tumi....

I agree.
Its the same chain store crap everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am white, born on a military base and I arrived in DC soon after my birth.

I am a transplant but have lived all over the area since I was an infant.

Yes I have traveled extensively especially after high school.

I think the recent wave of mostly white transplants to the DC area some of the lamest people I have ever come across in my entire life.

I totally agree. I think that's the problem most natives have with the transplants. Cities like Los Angeles and Portland attract interesting, dynamic, creative, free thinking individuals. DC just attracts the most white-bread, policy wonk types. My dad always calls them the "milk monitor" types.

And this was fine when transplants were trickling in. But now they are arriving in droves and turning DC into the most dull, lame place.

Amen.
It starting to suck more and more and more with each passing year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you lived all over the area since you were an infant? Because that wasn't super clear from your 500 other posts.

Um, I don't think you understand how DCUM works...

[Anonymous]

I knew several guys like this in my neighborhood (all older than me) while I was living in the Maryland suburbs.
Their families were all from DC but they eventually all fled to the suburbs at some point during the late 1960s/early 1970s.

They literally rock & rolled all night and partied everyday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

1988 Oct 13 Michael Jackson
1988 Oct 17 Michael Jackson
1988 Oct 18 Michael Jackson
1988 Oct 19 Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson 3 nights in a row?

Are you kidding me?

I'm not even a Michael Jackson fan and I would so go see him over any U Street or H Street venue performer.

I went to the 1980 Bruce Springsteen concert and the 1984 Prince concert. The MJ concerts turned DC upside down - I was in college at that point but remember my younger brother talking about this with glee. There are a whole group of DC natives who remember that week fondly.

That list of concerts is amazing actually!!

It is, except it is from the internet.

What's the point here? That in the 1970's and 1980's there were lots of great 70's and 80's bands playing in DC? Are you somehow under the impression that there aren't lots of great 201X bands playing in DC now? There are. You all sound like a bunch of losers that are living in the past.

You think there are too many chain stores because that is all you ever go to. You think that all the cool neighborhoods are gone because you are too old and lame to go the new cool neighborhoods.

All you old DC natives sound pathetic. Stop living in the past.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

1988 Oct 13 Michael Jackson
1988 Oct 17 Michael Jackson
1988 Oct 18 Michael Jackson
1988 Oct 19 Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson 3 nights in a row?

Are you kidding me?

I'm not even a Michael Jackson fan and I would so go see him over any U Street or H Street venue performer.

I went to the 1980 Bruce Springsteen concert and the 1984 Prince concert. The MJ concerts turned DC upside down - I was in college at that point but remember my younger brother talking about this with glee. There are a whole group of DC natives who remember that week fondly.

That list of concerts is amazing actually!!

It is, except it is from the internet.

What's the point here? That in the 1970's and 1980's there were lots of great 70's and 80's bands playing in DC? Are you somehow under the impression that there aren't lots of great 201X bands playing in DC now? There are. You all sound like a bunch of losers that are living in the past.

You think there are too many chain stores because that is all you ever go to. You think that all the cool neighborhoods are gone because you are too old and lame to go the new cool neighborhoods.

All you old DC natives sound pathetic. Stop living in the past.

^ Says the transplant who is not old enough to remember anything before the year 2000 so he/she has to resort to calling people old.

Look, we already had a transplant on here admit that DC is not as interesting as it used to be.
Everyone with common sense already knows this.
Everyone except for you of course.

Stop buying into all of the hype.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

1988 Oct 13 Michael Jackson
1988 Oct 17 Michael Jackson
1988 Oct 18 Michael Jackson
1988 Oct 19 Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson 3 nights in a row?

Are you kidding me?

I'm not even a Michael Jackson fan and I would so go see him over any U Street or H Street venue performer.

I went to the 1980 Bruce Springsteen concert and the 1984 Prince concert. The MJ concerts turned DC upside down - I was in college at that point but remember my younger brother talking about this with glee. There are a whole group of DC natives who remember that week fondly.

That list of concerts is amazing actually!!

It is, except it is from the internet.

What's the point here? That in the 1970's and 1980's there were lots of great 70's and 80's bands playing in DC? Are you somehow under the impression that there aren't lots of great 201X bands playing in DC now? There are. You all sound like a bunch of losers that are living in the past.

You think there are too many chain stores because that is all you ever go to. You think that all the cool neighborhoods are gone because you are too old and lame to go the new cool neighborhoods.

All you old DC natives sound pathetic. Stop living in the past.

^ Says the transplant who is not old enough to remember anything before the year 2000 so he/she has to resort to calling people old.

Look, we already had a transplant on here admit that DC is not as interesting as it used to be.
Everyone with common sense already knows this.
Everyone except for you of course.

Stop buying into all of the hype.

I am in my late 20s and even the years after 2000, say, up until 2008 or so, when all the recession people start rushing to DC for jobs, were great. But the recent influx has RUINED dc, and it happened so fast.

People aren't "old" because they are familiar with the history of a city. It just means they're intelligent and in-the-know.

[Anonymous]

feels like pretty much everyone here (in Bethesda) is a transplant, both among neighbors I've met and the parents of the kids' classmates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:feels like pretty much everyone here (in Bethesda) is a transplant, both among neighbors I've met and the parents of the kids' classmates.

What is sad is they truly believe there was nothing here until they arrived and blessed the area with their mere presence.

GTFO

I am a transplant but have lived all over the area since I was an infant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

1988 Oct 13 Michael Jackson
1988 Oct 17 Michael Jackson
1988 Oct 18 Michael Jackson
1988 Oct 19 Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson 3 nights in a row?

Are you kidding me?

I'm not even a Michael Jackson fan and I would so go see him over any U Street or H Street venue performer.

I went to the 1980 Bruce Springsteen concert and the 1984 Prince concert. The MJ concerts turned DC upside down - I was in college at that point but remember my younger brother talking about this with glee. There are a whole group of DC natives who remember that week fondly.

That list of concerts is amazing actually!!

It is, except it is from the internet.

What's the point here? That in the 1970's and 1980's there were lots of great 70's and 80's bands playing in DC? Are you somehow under the impression that there aren't lots of great 201X bands playing in DC now? There are. You all sound like a bunch of losers that are living in the past.

You think there are too many chain stores because that is all you ever go to. You think that all the cool neighborhoods are gone because you are too old and lame to go the new cool neighborhoods.

All you old DC natives sound pathetic. Stop living in the past.

^ Says the transplant who is not old enough to remember anything before the year 2000 so he/she has to resort to calling people old.

Look, we already had a transplant on here admit that DC is not as interesting as it used to be.
Everyone with common sense already knows this.
Everyone except for you of course.

Stop buying into all of the hype.

I'm plenty old enough to remember well before they year 2000, thank you very much.

And if you are wandering around insisting that there is no interesting people, places, or things to do in this city - today - then you are the problem. You are lame and stuck in the past. Look in the mirror to find why you are so bored - don't blame new people moving into our city.