Transplants vs DC Natives

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Anonymous wrote:Transplants are nothing but a bunch government leechers who relocated/moved here for the sole purpose of leeching off of the local economy.

That's the spirit! Way to be grateful to people who revived your piss poor region. Because we all need to live in outhouses, like you do? Really? Tell me more.

Revived our piss poor region?

You seriously think there was nothing here before you arrived and blessed us with your CVS, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Panera, Cupcakes, WalMart, Target, Best Buy... cookie cutter blandness?

Out of curiosity PP, what neighborhood in DC did you grow up in, and where do you live now? What stores do you shop at, and what do you do for entertainment?

NP. Why the forth degree? Just curious...

Because my guess is that the poster to whom I directed that question grew up in Dumfries or some lame suburb and now lives in an even further-out exurb. This would explain their insistence that all of "new DC" is CVS, Starbucks, Whole Foods, etc. - they are referring to their subdivision, not the actual city that exists all around us today.

Dumbest post in the thread and that's saying a lot

No - the dumbest posts are those that assume that

1. Transplants are somehow objectively worse than natives because they call it "the DMV" instead of "Washington", or pronounce it "Glow-ver" instead of "GLuh-ver"
2. Or assume that somehow, CVS is qualitatively different than People's drug, and that a city with a CVS is objectively worse than a People's drug. Who cares? They are both chain stores.

I started out this thread being sympathetic to DC natives, especially since I am married to one. I now realize that the representations of DC natives on this thread are a bunch of ignorant fools. Most of them are so hung up on living in the past that they have no idea what is going on in their city today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Drug

Peoples Drug was founded by Malcolm Gibbs in 1905 at 824 7th Street, NW.
Washington DC.
People Drug was in business for 85 years.

CVS is not from DC and has been in the area for less than 25 years.

Big difference.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Transplants are nothing but a bunch government leechers who relocated/moved here for the sole purpose of leeching off of the local economy.

That's the spirit! Way to be grateful to people who revived your piss poor region. Because we all need to live in outhouses, like you do? Really? Tell me more.

Revived our piss poor region?

You seriously think there was nothing here before you arrived and blessed us with your CVS, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Panera, Cupcakes, WalMart, Target, Best Buy... cookie cutter blandness?

Out of curiosity PP, what neighborhood in DC did you grow up in, and where do you live now? What stores do you shop at, and what do you do for entertainment?

NP. Why the forth degree? Just curious...

Because my guess is that the poster to whom I directed that question grew up in Dumfries or some lame suburb and now lives in an even further-out exurb. This would explain their insistence that all of "new DC" is CVS, Starbucks, Whole Foods, etc. - they are referring to their subdivision, not the actual city that exists all around us today.

I'm sorry but if you think that DC hasn't had many of its mom and pop stores replaced by nasty chains then you are dreaming. And quite obviously a total newbie here

Yep.

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Anonymous wrote:Transplants are nothing but a bunch government leechers who relocated/moved here for the sole purpose of leeching off of the local economy.

That's the spirit! Way to be grateful to people who revived your piss poor region. Because we all need to live in outhouses, like you do? Really? Tell me more.

Revived our piss poor region?

You seriously think there was nothing here before you arrived and blessed us with your CVS, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Panera, Cupcakes, WalMart, Target, Best Buy... cookie cutter blandness?

Out of curiosity PP, what neighborhood in DC did you grow up in, and where do you live now? What stores do you shop at, and what do you do for entertainment?

NP. Why the forth degree? Just curious...

Because my guess is that the poster to whom I directed that question grew up in Dumfries or some lame suburb and now lives in an even further-out exurb. This would explain their insistence that all of "new DC" is CVS, Starbucks, Whole Foods, etc. - they are referring to their subdivision, not the actual city that exists all around us today.

Dumbest post in the thread and that's saying a lot

The person who posted those remarks is a typical transplant obsessed with their newfound urbanness.
Little does he/she know the "lame suburbs" are filled with native Washingtonians who were born and raised in DC.
Native Washingtonians who were in DC for decades.
Wayyyyyyy before today's trendy, wannabe urban transplants arrived here.

[Anonymous]

People were buying from trucks and riding bicycles in DC way before today's trendy urban try-hard gentrifiers ever set foot in DC.
Before they were even born.

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When transplants buy from a truck or ride a bicycle they announce it on social media and try to turn it into a media event.
They all think they deserve media coverage simply for existing.
They are urban and they want the entire world to know about it.

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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.

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.

Oh you've absolutely slayed me with your incisive commentary! LOL!

I currently speak 5 languages.

What about you?

Seriously? If you're the person who thought I'd be insulted by the comment "Policy wonk types SUCK," I'm even more amused that you're following up by announcing how many languages you speak. That's pretty funny - and completely irrelevant. But good for a grin. If you're someone else, I'm not sure why you're posting this but whatever! And if you're a troll, well, you have to try harder if you want people to get pissed at you.

NP. Seems like it did strike a nerve for you....

The nerve attached to my funny bone, maybe. Just amused that anyone would think those lame insults would hurt anyone's feelings.

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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.

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.

Oh you've absolutely slayed me with your incisive commentary! LOL!

I currently speak 5 languages.

What about you?

Seriously? If you're the person who thought I'd be insulted by the comment "Policy wonk types SUCK," I'm even more amused that you're following up by announcing how many languages you speak. That's pretty funny - and completely irrelevant. But good for a grin. If you're someone else, I'm not sure why you're posting this but whatever! And if you're a troll, well, you have to try harder if you want people to get pissed at you.

NP. Seems like it did strike a nerve for you....

The nerve attached to my funny bone, maybe. Just amused that anyone would think those lame insults would hurt anyone's feelings.

Me thinks thou dost protest too much....

[Anonymous]

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People were buying from trucks and riding bicycles in DC way before today's trendy urban try-hard gentrifiers ever set foot in DC.
Before they were even born.

Finally, after decades of violence by blacks, non-blacks are coming back into town to reenact the happy times displayed in those pics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When transplants buy from a truck or ride a bicycle they announce it on social media and try to turn it into a media event.
They all think they deserve media coverage simply for existing.
They are urban and they want the entire world to know about it.

So true. And they NEVER get over the excitement of living in DC!!!!!!!!

There will never be a new locally-sourced restaurant opening without some transplant on my facebook going on and on about it, assuring everyone that they're gonna go.

The sad thing is sometimes someone from the BFE town they came from will comment, like, "Wow! You go to so many cool places" or some such other comment.

Many transplants are living out their own version of "The Beverly Hillbillies."

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Transplants are nothing but a bunch government leechers who relocated/moved here for the sole purpose of leeching off of the local economy.

That's the spirit! Way to be grateful to people who revived your piss poor region. Because we all need to live in outhouses, like you do? Really? Tell me more.

Revived our piss poor region?

You seriously think there was nothing here before you arrived and blessed us with your CVS, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Panera, Cupcakes, WalMart, Target, Best Buy... cookie cutter blandness?

Out of curiosity PP, what neighborhood in DC did you grow up in, and where do you live now? What stores do you shop at, and what do you do for entertainment?

NP. Why the forth degree? Just curious...

Because my guess is that the poster to whom I directed that question grew up in Dumfries or some lame suburb and now lives in an even further-out exurb. This would explain their insistence that all of "new DC" is CVS, Starbucks, Whole Foods, etc. - they are referring to their subdivision, not the actual city that exists all around us today.

Dumbest post in the thread and that's saying a lot

No - the dumbest posts are those that assume that

1. Transplants are somehow objectively worse than natives because they call it "the DMV" instead of "Washington", or pronounce it "Glow-ver" instead of "GLuh-ver"
2. Or assume that somehow, CVS is qualitatively different than People's drug, and that a city with a CVS is objectively worse than a People's drug. Who cares? They are both chain stores.

I started out this thread being sympathetic to DC natives, especially since I am married to one. I now realize that the representations of DC natives on this thread are a bunch of ignorant fools. Most of them are so hung up on living in the past that they have no idea what is going on in their city today.

+1000

I also realize that DC natives stand up for the wrong things, have no commons sense, and waste their time on the wrong issues. So there is that. Thanks for enlightening me, DC natives!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No DC area native actually wants to admit that status. It's too embarrassing.

One would think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Transplants are nothing but a bunch government leechers who relocated/moved here for the sole purpose of leeching off of the local economy.

That's the spirit! Way to be grateful to people who revived your piss poor region. Because we all need to live in outhouses, like you do? Really? Tell me more.

Revived our piss poor region?

You seriously think there was nothing here before you arrived and blessed us with your CVS, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Panera, Cupcakes, WalMart, Target, Best Buy... cookie cutter blandness?

It's the delusional mantra of people who moved here from flyover country and want to feel better about their sad, uncultured, hillbilly background...

Thanks for showing the "transplants" your true colors. Because if one is not "from DC" one must be from a remarkably "sad, uncultured, hillbilly background".

Or not.

Perhaps it is just the opposite. But I don't suppose a native could possibly imagine so, could they?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Transplants are nothing but a bunch government leechers who relocated/moved here for the sole purpose of leeching off of the local economy.

That's the spirit! Way to be grateful to people who revived your piss poor region. Because we all need to live in outhouses, like you do? Really? Tell me more.

Revived our piss poor region?

You seriously think there was nothing here before you arrived and blessed us with your CVS, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Panera, Cupcakes, WalMart, Target, Best Buy... cookie cutter blandness?

Out of curiosity PP, what neighborhood in DC did you grow up in, and where do you live now? What stores do you shop at, and what do you do for entertainment?

NP. Why the forth degree? Just curious...

Because my guess is that the poster to whom I directed that question grew up in Dumfries or some lame suburb and now lives in an even further-out exurb. This would explain their insistence that all of "new DC" is CVS, Starbucks, Whole Foods, etc. - they are referring to their subdivision, not the actual city that exists all around us today.

Dumbest post in the thread and that's saying a lot

No - the dumbest posts are those that assume that

1. Transplants are somehow objectively worse than natives because they call it "the DMV" instead of "Washington", or pronounce it "Glow-ver" instead of "GLuh-ver"
2. Or assume that somehow, CVS is qualitatively different than People's drug, and that a city with a CVS is objectively worse than a People's drug. Who cares? They are both chain stores.

I started out this thread being sympathetic to DC natives, especially since I am married to one. I now realize that the representations of DC natives on this thread are a bunch of ignorant fools. Most of them are so hung up on living in the past that they have no idea what is going on in their city today.

+1000

I also realize that DC natives stand up for the wrong things, have no commons sense, and waste their time on the wrong issues. So there is that. Thanks for enlightening me, DC natives!

+1,000,000.

Obviously not all DC natives share those characteristics, as I know many quite impressive folks born here, but on average quality is growing leaps and bounds.

[Anonymous]

I don't know many hillbillies who come to DC, mostly sophisticated international folks who find it a little disappointing.

Most of the hillbillies who move, go to Los Angeles.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When transplants buy from a truck or ride a bicycle they announce it on social media and try to turn it into a media event.
They all think they deserve media coverage simply for existing.
They are urban and they want the entire world to know about it.

So true. And they NEVER get over the excitement of living in DC!!!!!!!!

There will never be a new locally-sourced restaurant opening without some transplant on my facebook going on and on about it, assuring everyone that they're gonna go.

The sad thing is sometimes someone from the BFE town they came from will comment, like, "Wow! You go to so many cool places" or some such other comment.

Many transplants are living out their own version of "The Beverly Hillbillies."

THIS, x100000