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

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.

This is a really sad post. It makes me think the main thing that most DC natives are upset about is that they they could not keep up as their city improved and property values increased. They used to be big fish in a small pond. But not anymore - and boy, are they mad about it.

[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.

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.

This is a really sad post. It makes me think the main thing that most DC natives are upset about is that they they could not keep up as their city improved and property values increased. They used to be big fish in a small pond. But not anymore - and boy, are they mad about it.

The smart ones, already moved out.

What remains are the slow, lazy ones.

Pathetic.

[Anonymous]

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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

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.

This is a really sad post. It makes me think the main thing that most DC natives are upset about is that they they could not keep up as their city improved and property values increased. They used to be big fish in a small pond. But not anymore - and boy, are they mad about it.

The smart ones, already moved out.

What remains are the slow, lazy ones.

Pathetic.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the epitome of the attitude of "DC Native"

[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.

Do you have something against black people?

[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."

They post incessantly about their DC urban experience on social media so they can receive acclaim and adulation from their friends/family back home in the Wal-Mart towns that they came from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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."

They post incessantly about their DC urban experience on social media so they can receive acclaim and adulation from their friends/family back home in the Wal-Mart towns that they came from.

Ahahahahaha so true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

This is a really sad post. It makes me think the main thing that most DC natives are upset about is that they they could not keep up as their city improved and property values increased. They used to be big fish in a small pond. But not anymore - and boy, are they mad about it.

Really?
Many of those DC natives living in the lame suburbs left DC in the 1960s and the 1970s.
They are quite happy.
Enjoying life.
They are also laughing at the recent arrival urban try-hard gentrifiers who have bought into all of the gentrification hype.

[Anonymous]

Luxury apartments right across the street from the Sursum Corda housing projects. Now thats funny.

"But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, the neighborhood is in transition."

lol

[Anonymous]

^Whats your point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:



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.

Do you have something against black people?

Do you have something against sarcasm?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:



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.

You are a vile human

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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!

Unlike campaigning for dog parks. Or paving the way for some Tysons-lite like City Center. What a good use of valuable land.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:



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.

You are a vile human

That's one option. Another is that I was just making fun of the stupid DC native who posted those pics as an example of how cool DC used to be.

Sarcasm: the use of irony to mock or convey contempt.

Let me guess: you're another not-very-smart DC native?

[Anonymous]

Or your attempt at sarcasm was terrible and unfunny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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."

They post incessantly about their DC urban experience on social media so they can receive acclaim and adulation from their friends/family back home in the Wal-Mart towns that they came from.

Ahahahahaha so true.

+1