Transplants vs DC Natives

[Anonymous]

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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.

DC is as interesting as warm tap water

[Anonymous]

DC has been overrun with Type A personalities. It's unfortunate. I'm just thankful I have memories of how great it was! It's unfortunate that many transplants don't know the "real" DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any Black DCers posting in this thread at all?

Yes. I posted about seeing Prince and Bruce at the Cap Center. I also used to go to Bullets games as well as the Dips. I too feel like something has been lost but at the same time I have been enjoying the new DC with my kids. I love, love all the new restaurants. My favorite neighborhood transformation has to be Bloomingdale and H Street. When I was a teen I couldn't wait to get out of DC - it was dangerous to go out. The high murder rate coupled with the small size of DC meant that many people knew people who had been murdered. So many young lives cut short it was truly awful.

I left for about 20 years and came back. It was jarring at first to see white people in Petworth or walking around Georgia Ave. I don't mind the transplants - maybe because I'm older and they are mostly kids trying to find their way. Also there have always been transplants because of the government. I think some transplants really want to do things to improve the city and I'm all for it. At the same time it is disappointing that many black folks moved out and aren't enjoying how much the city has improved.

Even though I know people disagree - DC was a magical place way back when - but I think there is some cool stuff happening now that my kids will look back on and call magical.

You're way too rational to be a poster in this thread.

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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.

Well it's obvious your memories before the year 2000 do not go further back than the mighty morphin power rangers or the teenage mutant ninja turtles because anyone old enough to have participated in adult activities pre 1995 can sympathize with how DC in it's current incarnation is boring and stale when compared to previous eras.

Since you are old enough to remember well before the year 2000 lets discuss some DC area sports so I can determine exactly just how far you go back.

Are you old enough to remember when the Hoyas were in the NCAA basketball championship game for 3 years out of a 4-year span?
Are you old enough to remember when the Bullets had the No. 1 winning percentage in the entire NBA for a decade?
Are you old enough to remember when the Redskins were winning Super Bowls?

Nobody is saying there is "no interesting people, places, or things to do in this city today" they are simply saying the present incarnation of DC is seriously over rated.

Why is it seriously over rated?
So more upscale condos can be sold to unsuspecting, gentrifying urban wannabes.

You cannot accept this because you have been brainwashed to believe all of the gentrification hype.

As soon as someone disagrees with you then suddenly they are "bored, lame and stuck in the past"

I can sit here all night and exchange insults with you but instead of doing that I will just offer you some advice instead.

My advice to you is expand your horizons and do some research so you can understand why so many natives feel the "new people moving into our city" are ruining it beyond repair.

You insist that DC was a utopian wonderland in the 70's and 80's, but the best examples you can come with basically boil down to "the sports teams were pretty good."?

That is lame and pathetic.

Look, I get it natives, like all of us, you have fond memories of the city you grew up in. We always look back on our youth that way. But it is sad if all you can do is wallow in the past and complain about the present. I know plenty of DC natives who loved it then, and love the city now. If you got out more maybe you would do the same.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Well it's obvious your memories before the year 2000 do not go further back than the mighty morphin power rangers or the teenage mutant ninja turtles because anyone old enough to have participated in adult activities pre 1995 can sympathize with how DC in it's current incarnation is boring and stale when compared to previous eras.

Since you are old enough to remember well before the year 2000 lets discuss some DC area sports so I can determine exactly just how far you go back.

Are you old enough to remember when the Hoyas were in the NCAA basketball championship game for 3 years out of a 4-year span?
Are you old enough to remember when the Bullets had the No. 1 winning percentage in the entire NBA for a decade?
Are you old enough to remember when the Redskins were winning Super Bowls?

Nobody is saying there is "no interesting people, places, or things to do in this city today" they are simply saying the present incarnation of DC is seriously over rated.

Why is it seriously over rated?
So more upscale condos can be sold to unsuspecting, gentrifying urban wannabes.

You cannot accept this because you have been brainwashed to believe all of the gentrification hype.

As soon as someone disagrees with you then suddenly they are "bored, lame and stuck in the past"

I can sit here all night and exchange insults with you but instead of doing that I will just offer you some advice instead.

My advice to you is expand your horizons and do some research so you can understand why so many natives feel the "new people moving into our city" are ruining it beyond repair.

You insist that DC was a utopian wonderland in the 70's and 80's, but the best examples you can come with basically boil down to "the sports teams were pretty good."?

That is lame and pathetic.

Look, I get it natives, like all of us, you have fond memories of the city you grew up in. We always look back on our youth that way. But it is sad if all you can do is wallow in the past and complain about the present. I know plenty of DC natives who loved it then, and love the city now. If you got out more maybe you would do the same.

Sorry dear. It's not an age issue, although I would love to know how old you are, because I'm certain I'm younger.

It's a particular change that has happened in DC.

I "get out" all the time in DC and it doesn't make me feel any better about those changes- in fact it makes me feel worse, sad for the generic sameness that has replaced the once cool city.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Well it's obvious your memories before the year 2000 do not go further back than the mighty morphin power rangers or the teenage mutant ninja turtles because anyone old enough to have participated in adult activities pre 1995 can sympathize with how DC in it's current incarnation is boring and stale when compared to previous eras.

Since you are old enough to remember well before the year 2000 lets discuss some DC area sports so I can determine exactly just how far you go back.

Are you old enough to remember when the Hoyas were in the NCAA basketball championship game for 3 years out of a 4-year span?
Are you old enough to remember when the Bullets had the No. 1 winning percentage in the entire NBA for a decade?
Are you old enough to remember when the Redskins were winning Super Bowls?

Nobody is saying there is "no interesting people, places, or things to do in this city today" they are simply saying the present incarnation of DC is seriously over rated.

Why is it seriously over rated?
So more upscale condos can be sold to unsuspecting, gentrifying urban wannabes.

You cannot accept this because you have been brainwashed to believe all of the gentrification hype.

As soon as someone disagrees with you then suddenly they are "bored, lame and stuck in the past"

I can sit here all night and exchange insults with you but instead of doing that I will just offer you some advice instead.

My advice to you is expand your horizons and do some research so you can understand why so many natives feel the "new people moving into our city" are ruining it beyond repair.

You insist that DC was a utopian wonderland in the 70's and 80's, but the best examples you can come with basically boil down to "the sports teams were pretty good."?

That is lame and pathetic.

Look, I get it natives, like all of us, you have fond memories of the city you grew up in. We always look back on our youth that way. But it is sad if all you can do is wallow in the past and complain about the present. I know plenty of DC natives who loved it then, and love the city now. If you got out more maybe you would do the same.

Sorry dear. It's not an age issue, although I would love to know how old you are, because I'm certain I'm younger.

It's a particular change that has happened in DC.

I "get out" all the time in DC and it doesn't make me feel any better about those changes- in fact it makes me feel worse, sad for the generic sameness that has replaced the once cool city.

Ohhhhh.... and the small changes you might have experienced in Cleveland or wherever little bunker you're from.... do not compare.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Well it's obvious your memories before the year 2000 do not go further back than the mighty morphin power rangers or the teenage mutant ninja turtles because anyone old enough to have participated in adult activities pre 1995 can sympathize with how DC in it's current incarnation is boring and stale when compared to previous eras.

Since you are old enough to remember well before the year 2000 lets discuss some DC area sports so I can determine exactly just how far you go back.

Are you old enough to remember when the Hoyas were in the NCAA basketball championship game for 3 years out of a 4-year span?
Are you old enough to remember when the Bullets had the No. 1 winning percentage in the entire NBA for a decade?
Are you old enough to remember when the Redskins were winning Super Bowls?

Nobody is saying there is "no interesting people, places, or things to do in this city today" they are simply saying the present incarnation of DC is seriously over rated.

Why is it seriously over rated?
So more upscale condos can be sold to unsuspecting, gentrifying urban wannabes.

You cannot accept this because you have been brainwashed to believe all of the gentrification hype.

As soon as someone disagrees with you then suddenly they are "bored, lame and stuck in the past"

I can sit here all night and exchange insults with you but instead of doing that I will just offer you some advice instead.

My advice to you is expand your horizons and do some research so you can understand why so many natives feel the "new people moving into our city" are ruining it beyond repair.

You insist that DC was a utopian wonderland in the 70's and 80's, but the best examples you can come with basically boil down to "the sports teams were pretty good."?

That is lame and pathetic.

Look, I get it natives, like all of us, you have fond memories of the city you grew up in. We always look back on our youth that way. But it is sad if all you can do is wallow in the past and complain about the present. I know plenty of DC natives who loved it then, and love the city now. If you got out more maybe you would do the same.

Sorry dear. It's not an age issue, although I would love to know how old you are, because I'm certain I'm younger.

It's a particular change that has happened in DC.

I "get out" all the time in DC and it doesn't make me feel any better about those changes- in fact it makes me feel worse, sad for the generic sameness that has replaced the once cool city.

That's because you don't get out to today's cool places. You are probably too scared to go these places or your wife won't let you or you have to go to the 1982 Redskins Fan Club meeting or something.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Well it's obvious your memories before the year 2000 do not go further back than the mighty morphin power rangers or the teenage mutant ninja turtles because anyone old enough to have participated in adult activities pre 1995 can sympathize with how DC in it's current incarnation is boring and stale when compared to previous eras.

Since you are old enough to remember well before the year 2000 lets discuss some DC area sports so I can determine exactly just how far you go back.

Are you old enough to remember when the Hoyas were in the NCAA basketball championship game for 3 years out of a 4-year span?
Are you old enough to remember when the Bullets had the No. 1 winning percentage in the entire NBA for a decade?
Are you old enough to remember when the Redskins were winning Super Bowls?

Nobody is saying there is "no interesting people, places, or things to do in this city today" they are simply saying the present incarnation of DC is seriously over rated.

Why is it seriously over rated?
So more upscale condos can be sold to unsuspecting, gentrifying urban wannabes.

You cannot accept this because you have been brainwashed to believe all of the gentrification hype.

As soon as someone disagrees with you then suddenly they are "bored, lame and stuck in the past"

I can sit here all night and exchange insults with you but instead of doing that I will just offer you some advice instead.

My advice to you is expand your horizons and do some research so you can understand why so many natives feel the "new people moving into our city" are ruining it beyond repair.

You insist that DC was a utopian wonderland in the 70's and 80's, but the best examples you can come with basically boil down to "the sports teams were pretty good."?

That is lame and pathetic.

Look, I get it natives, like all of us, you have fond memories of the city you grew up in. We always look back on our youth that way. But it is sad if all you can do is wallow in the past and complain about the present. I know plenty of DC natives who loved it then, and love the city now. If you got out more maybe you would do the same.

Sorry dear. It's not an age issue, although I would love to know how old you are, because I'm certain I'm younger.

It's a particular change that has happened in DC.

I "get out" all the time in DC and it doesn't make me feel any better about those changes- in fact it makes me feel worse, sad for the generic sameness that has replaced the once cool city.

Move to Atlanta, or to Alabama.

[Anonymous]

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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.

I know we've discussed this already but the theater scene here is far from boring. You may not like the policy wonk types but there's a lot of cool stuff happening in theater -- to which the policy wonks (like me) go.

Policy wonk types SUCK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I know we've discussed this already but the theater scene here is far from boring. You may not like the policy wonk types but there's a lot of cool stuff happening in theater -- to which the policy wonks (like me) go.

No no, we all get that. There is some great art in DC (used to be way more artists) and then the policy wonks become attracted the kind of "controlled creativity" they see and start moving in, driving rents up, and driving artists out. And slowly the city becomes a boring, Panera-infested shithole.

Very true.

[Anonymous]

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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.

^ 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.

Well it's obvious your memories before the year 2000 do not go further back than the mighty morphin power rangers or the teenage mutant ninja turtles because anyone old enough to have participated in adult activities pre 1995 can sympathize with how DC in it's current incarnation is boring and stale when compared to previous eras.

Since you are old enough to remember well before the year 2000 lets discuss some DC area sports so I can determine exactly just how far you go back.

Are you old enough to remember when the Hoyas were in the NCAA basketball championship game for 3 years out of a 4-year span?
Are you old enough to remember when the Bullets had the No. 1 winning percentage in the entire NBA for a decade?
Are you old enough to remember when the Redskins were winning Super Bowls?

Nobody is saying there is "no interesting people, places, or things to do in this city today" they are simply saying the present incarnation of DC is seriously over rated.

Why is it seriously over rated?
So more upscale condos can be sold to unsuspecting, gentrifying urban wannabes.

You cannot accept this because you have been brainwashed to believe all of the gentrification hype.

As soon as someone disagrees with you then suddenly they are "bored, lame and stuck in the past"

I can sit here all night and exchange insults with you but instead of doing that I will just offer you some advice instead.

My advice to you is expand your horizons and do some research so you can understand why so many natives feel the "new people moving into our city" are ruining it beyond repair.

You insist that DC was a utopian wonderland in the 70's and 80's, but the best examples you can come with basically boil down to "the sports teams were pretty good."?

That is lame and pathetic.

Look, I get it natives, like all of us, you have fond memories of the city you grew up in. We always look back on our youth that way. But it is sad if all you can do is wallow in the past and complain about the present. I know plenty of DC natives who loved it then, and love the city now. If you got out more maybe you would do the same.

Sorry dear. It's not an age issue, although I would love to know how old you are, because I'm certain I'm younger.

It's a particular change that has happened in DC.

I "get out" all the time in DC and it doesn't make me feel any better about those changes- in fact it makes me feel worse, sad for the generic sameness that has replaced the once cool city.

That's because you don't get out to today's cool places. You are probably too scared to go these places or your wife won't let you or you have to go to the 1982 Redskins Fan Club meeting or something.

Bahaha.

Again, I'm certain I'm younger than you, and also that I go to cooler places.

Trust me, I go to all the hotspots.

What you don't seem to understand is your version of "cool" isn't other natives'. Like many transplants, you're easily impressed.

I'm sure DC has a lot of cafes and bars that would be considered the epitome of hip in your little small town. But natives grew up here. We dont have the same standards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I know we've discussed this already but the theater scene here is far from boring. You may not like the policy wonk types but there's a lot of cool stuff happening in theater -- to which the policy wonks (like me) go.

No no, we all get that. There is some great art in DC (used to be way more artists) and then the policy wonks become attracted the kind of "controlled creativity" they see and start moving in, driving rents up, and driving artists out. And slowly the city becomes a boring, Panera-infested shithole.

But those people generally don't live in the city. Let Arlington have them.

The policy wonks? Oh yes they do. Now they are just younger- but still have that boring, political/accountant type mindset.

Policy wonks SUCK

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Anonymous wrote:DC has been overrun with Type A personalities. It's unfortunate. I'm just thankful I have memories of how great it was! It's unfortunate that many transplants don't know the "real" DC.

Agreed.

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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.

Well it's obvious your memories before the year 2000 do not go further back than the mighty morphin power rangers or the teenage mutant ninja turtles because anyone old enough to have participated in adult activities pre 1995 can sympathize with how DC in it's current incarnation is boring and stale when compared to previous eras.

Since you are old enough to remember well before the year 2000 lets discuss some DC area sports so I can determine exactly just how far you go back.

Are you old enough to remember when the Hoyas were in the NCAA basketball championship game for 3 years out of a 4-year span?
Are you old enough to remember when the Bullets had the No. 1 winning percentage in the entire NBA for a decade?
Are you old enough to remember when the Redskins were winning Super Bowls?

Nobody is saying there is "no interesting people, places, or things to do in this city today" they are simply saying the present incarnation of DC is seriously over rated.

Why is it seriously over rated?
So more upscale condos can be sold to unsuspecting, gentrifying urban wannabes.

You cannot accept this because you have been brainwashed to believe all of the gentrification hype.

As soon as someone disagrees with you then suddenly they are "bored, lame and stuck in the past"

I can sit here all night and exchange insults with you but instead of doing that I will just offer you some advice instead.

My advice to you is expand your horizons and do some research so you can understand why so many natives feel the "new people moving into our city" are ruining it beyond repair.

You insist that DC was a utopian wonderland in the 70's and 80's, but the best examples you can come with basically boil down to "the sports teams were pretty good."?

That is lame and pathetic.

Look, I get it natives, like all of us, you have fond memories of the city you grew up in. We always look back on our youth that way. But it is sad if all you can do is wallow in the past and complain about the present. I know plenty of DC natives who loved it then, and love the city now. If you got out more maybe you would do the same.

Sorry dear. It's not an age issue, although I would love to know how old you are, because I'm certain I'm younger.

It's a particular change that has happened in DC.

I "get out" all the time in DC and it doesn't make me feel any better about those changes- in fact it makes me feel worse, sad for the generic sameness that has replaced the once cool city.

I agree

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Native Washingtonian here (who is proud to refer to our Nation's Capital by the name of the father of our country, not as "dee-cee")