How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

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Anonymous wrote:"I work in research"

??? DH and I are scientists from Europe. We work in research. Most researchers are foreign-born, did you know that? The US, until now, needed more brains than it grew domestically. It used to be called the brain drain: talented scientists from all over the world coming to work in the US.

Now, who knows what's going to happen, but to your point: it doesn't make sense.

I think that PP's point was that people don't disclose their secret squirrel jobs, especially in defense research. People just generically say they work for the government or work in research.

And the point is wrong, because there are lot more people working in scientific research around the world (and other topics, I have a friend doing historical research for a museum) than there are intelligence analysts.

At a dinner party, they could just tell you they're researchers before they move on to the next guest.

Are you sure you're not from DC? Because you're a bit insufferable.

Here comes the anti-intellectual brigade.

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Anonymous wrote:"I work in research"

??? DH and I are scientists from Europe. We work in research. Most researchers are foreign-born, did you know that? The US, until now, needed more brains than it grew domestically. It used to be called the brain drain: talented scientists from all over the world coming to work in the US.

Now, who knows what's going to happen, but to your point: it doesn't make sense.

Interesting response. I took “I work in research” in the same way that I would take “I work in government “. When I was growing up, adults—presumably because of security issues involving classified information— described their jobs tersely, in very broad terms. So : “I work in research” rather than “I’m working in biological warfare. Let me tell you about how to infect people on a plane with a very contagious, deadly disease “. PP, the issue described here is one of communication styles. It’s about subtle cultural practices— not about “foreign born brains”. Your response to the comment definitely marks you as being someone not from here.

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Anonymous wrote:"I work in research"

??? DH and I are scientists from Europe. We work in research. Most researchers are foreign-born, did you know that? The US, until now, needed more brains than it grew domestically. It used to be called the brain drain: talented scientists from all over the world coming to work in the US.

Now, who knows what's going to happen, but to your point: it doesn't make sense.

I think that PP's point was that people don't disclose their secret squirrel jobs, especially in defense research. People just generically say they work for the government or work in research.

I used to tell people I was a defense contractor. No one is that curious about what we did.

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Anonymous wrote:Still consider FedEx Field the ‘new’ stadium

Never heard of it.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in the DMV.

Zero natives I know use this term, so hopefully this was posted as a mark of the opposite?

Yeah, that's more of something that people who moved here after college, but maybe have lived here for a while, use.

If you grew up here you're too old for it to feel natural, even though it's been around a while.

I am born and raised inside the beltway. In VA, Md and DC. I always say DMV. I'm early 40s.

+1 (born IN DC) and in my 60's and use.

Bullshit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never heard DMV until recently. From DC, late 40s. Maybe bc it's a suburban thing? Not sure.

I don't believe you at all. Have you never watched local news? The local tv stations here are always referring to the area as DMV. Or any local TV commercials?? Many of the local advertisers here say "DMV".

I've been here since 2010 and I noticed the term DMV immediately.

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This might be true only for the older Black DC Natives. One of the first questions we might ask is: What High School did you go to? While this is partly to see where our social circles might overlap, it also dates back to a time when there were only 3 public high schools that Black students could attend, preparing them for College, Business, or “tech” careers.

A second question used to be: Where were you born? As in: which hospital.

Transplants and transients don’t ask these questions, while natives almost routinely do.

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Anonymous wrote:I never heard DMV until recently. From DC, late 40s. Maybe bc it's a suburban thing? Not sure.

I don't believe you at all. Have you never watched local news? The local tv stations here are always referring to the area as DMV. Or any local TV commercials?? Many of the local advertisers here say "DMV".

I've been here since 2010 and I noticed the term DMV immediately.

And how many of those people/ entities are actually from here? I get that I’m an old, but the people who say DMV tend to be from the burbs. It took me a while to get that not all of these people were focused on motor vehicles.

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Berger Cookies
National Airport
Sibley was a mediocre hospital

[Anonymous]

They freak out if the forecast shows a slight chance of snow next week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Berger Cookies
National Airport
Sibley was a mediocre hospital

Berger cookies are from Baltimore.
Baltimore is also more of a TastyCake town vs DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This might be true only for the older Black DC Natives. One of the first questions we might ask is: What High School did you go to? While this is partly to see where our social circles might overlap, it also dates back to a time when there were only 3 public high schools that Black students could attend, preparing them for College, Business, or “tech” careers.

A second question used to be: Where were you born? As in: which hospital.

Transplants and transients don’t ask these questions, while natives almost routinely do.

"Where did you go to high school?" is about the most townie conversation imaginable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This might be true only for the older Black DC Natives. One of the first questions we might ask is: What High School did you go to? While this is partly to see where our social circles might overlap, it also dates back to a time when there were only 3 public high schools that Black students could attend, preparing them for College, Business, or “tech” careers.

A second question used to be: Where were you born? As in: which hospital.

Transplants and transients don’t ask these questions, while natives almost routinely do.

"Where did you go to high school?" is about the most townie conversation imaginable.

True, but people who didn’t grow up here don’t usually ask it early on, and even people who did don’t usually do it in the top 2-3. It’s a “townie” question that usually only has relevance for people from the same “town”. “Where are you from?” “What do you do?” and maybe “Where did you go to school?”— meaning college and graduate level usually get asked first — by people not from the area, at least in my experience. Transplants care where I went to college and grad school. DC Natives care where I went to HS.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of their clothing has logos visible, They want you to know their clothing or accessories are "designer." That was one thing that really struck me when I moved here, an my relatives who were born here are really into that sort of thing.

They love to argue and "be right." Must be from going to school with so many lawyers kids or something. On the whole I find fellow white people who were born her really type A and insufferable.

Where do you live? I feel like this area is not into fashion or logos AT ALL. I grew up in a well-off area of FL and it was so much more intense there.

+1000

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I'm close to 60 years old and still say:
Cap center (I always chuckle after I say it)
Call team the Bullets
Still say Redskins
Will always say National
DMV - nope, but my son uses it