Transplants vs DC Natives

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Transplants- go back to flyover country where you belong. You will never truly fit in here, whether you like it or not- fact!

YES!

Who says transplants *want* to "fit in" here? And fit under your teeny tiny and very filthy microscope? No thanks.

I would say the transplants are happier amongst themselves than the natives could ever be, given the posts here.

Please... the transplants on this board have been absolutely miserable jerks.

At least they haven't been sock puppets. Shouldn't you be out herding cattle or something?

Thank you, Jeff.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Transplants- go back to flyover country where you belong. You will never truly fit in here, whether you like it or not- fact!

YES!

Oh great. A sock puppet from Texas slagging on DC transplants. Just an FYI, if you are a DC native who no longer lives in DC, you are a transplant yourself. None of us who are here now care if you think we don't fit in. Also, if you are a sock puppet, well, you are a sock puppet and we don't care about either of your opinions.

Right, and I don't walk around with a sense of entitlement regarding my (temporary and recent) new city.

Where are you from Jeff? The "transplant" label seems to have struck a nerve....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Transplants- go back to flyover country where you belong. You will never truly fit in here, whether you like it or not- fact!

YES!

Oh great. A sock puppet from Texas slagging on DC transplants. Just an FYI, if you are a DC native who no longer lives in DC, you are a transplant yourself. None of us who are here now care if you think we don't fit in. Also, if you are a sock puppet, well, you are a sock puppet and we don't care about either of your opinions.

Right, and I don't walk around with a sense of entitlement regarding my (temporary and recent) new city.

Where are you from Jeff? The "transplant" label seems to have struck a nerve....

Ha ha, you keep trying to get a rise out of people by declaring that something has struck a nerve. Is that the best you can do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Transplants- go back to flyover country where you belong. You will never truly fit in here, whether you like it or not- fact!

Not trying to fit in. Just trying to use this place, only as long a necessary, to make money and then move on.

Trust me, I promise not to stay 15 seconds longer than I absolutely need to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Transplants- go back to flyover country where you belong. You will never truly fit in here, whether you like it or not- fact!

Crazy lady, go back to geography class and check the stats about where people are coming from to upgrade Washington DC.

+1

SCHOOLED.

If the natives left the area for other than college (if that), they would realize that not everyone is from "flyover country". Some transplants are from much nicer places than D.C. Hard to imagine, if you hardly ever left this area, I know. Grow up and leave your mother's skirt hem for once. Natives can be so pitiful. Except I would not waste my time pitying them, because their attitude is piss poor.

D.C. is a part of the journey for most of us, NOT the destination. I suppose that is what mothers the natives so much - that transplants actually have options which are better than this hell hole with maladjusted natives and their acting out. Grow up already, natives - stop being petulant children: "mine, mine, mine!". You have problems, and it is certainly not the transplants.

Except for the "maladjusted natives," I'd say DC is a great place to live.

DC as in the capital of the USA -- not that parallel universe some folks seem to live in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Transplants- go back to flyover country where you belong. You will never truly fit in here, whether you like it or not- fact!

Not trying to fit in. Just trying to use this place, only as long a necessary, to make money and then move on.

Trust me, I promise not to stay 15 seconds longer than I absolutely need to.

+1

No lie. I sit the people and their awesome personalities? :sarcasm:

[Anonymous]

Is it......

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Transplants- go back to flyover country where you belong. You will never truly fit in here, whether you like it or not- fact!

Not trying to fit in. Just trying to use this place, only as long a necessary, to make money and then move on.

Trust me, I promise not to stay 15 seconds longer than I absolutely need to.

Can we get that in writing?

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Transplants- go back to flyover country where you belong. You will never truly fit in here, whether you like it or not- fact!

YES!

Oh great. A sock puppet from Texas slagging on DC transplants. Just an FYI, if you are a DC native who no longer lives in DC, you are a transplant yourself. None of us who are here now care if you think we don't fit in. Also, if you are a sock puppet, well, you are a sock puppet and we don't care about either of your opinions.

Right, and I don't walk around with a sense of entitlement regarding my (temporary and recent) new city.

Where are you from Jeff? The "transplant" label seems to have struck a nerve....

I'm from the great state of Illinois. The land of Lincoln and the heart of "flyover" country (unless you have a connection in Chicago in the Winter, in which it is "sit around and wait" country).

I've been in DC for 30 years and have no patience for 30 year old and younger natives giving me shit. On the other hand, I'll put up with it all day from 60 year old and older natives. I also think transplants that use DC slang in an attempt to look cool actually look silly, with the exception of the word "bama" which I have come to appreciate regardless of who uses it.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Transplants- go back to flyover country where you belong. You will never truly fit in here, whether you like it or not- fact!

YES!

Oh great. A sock puppet from Texas slagging on DC transplants. Just an FYI, if you are a DC native who no longer lives in DC, you are a transplant yourself. None of us who are here now care if you think we don't fit in. Also, if you are a sock puppet, well, you are a sock puppet and we don't care about either of your opinions.

Right, and I don't walk around with a sense of entitlement regarding my (temporary and recent) new city.

Where are you from Jeff? The "transplant" label seems to have struck a nerve....

I'm from the great state of Illinois. The land of Lincoln and the heart of "flyover" country (unless you have a connection in Chicago in the Winter, in which it is "sit around and wait" country).

I've been in DC for 30 years and have no patience for 30 year old and younger natives giving me shit. On the other hand, I'll put up with it all day from 60 year old and older natives. I also think transplants that use DC slang in an attempt to look cool actually look silly, with the exception of the word "bama" which I have come to appreciate regardless of who uses it.

I think people who didnt grow up in a major city and haven't had to sit back and watch all their beloved local spots, the very culture that formed the city they were raised in, supplanted by a bunch of entitled people who want to scrub away the interesting character of the city, not to mention make life more difficult for many people whose families have lived in the city for generations (and yes, there is a racial element there as well), need to try to be understanding of the emotion they have seen expressed on this board.

To us, DC is not just "a cool city", a "place you go for work", "the nation's capital", or whatever. It is HOME. Where we spent our childhoods and young adulthoods.

And seeing that irrevocably changed, the history scrubbed out and replaced with shiny, happy new chain stores... it's gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Transplants- go back to flyover country where you belong. You will never truly fit in here, whether you like it or not- fact!

YES!

Oh great. A sock puppet from Texas slagging on DC transplants. Just an FYI, if you are a DC native who no longer lives in DC, you are a transplant yourself. None of us who are here now care if you think we don't fit in. Also, if you are a sock puppet, well, you are a sock puppet and we don't care about either of your opinions.

Right, and I don't walk around with a sense of entitlement regarding my (temporary and recent) new city.

Where are you from Jeff? The "transplant" label seems to have struck a nerve....

I'm from the great state of Illinois. The land of Lincoln and the heart of "flyover" country (unless you have a connection in Chicago in the Winter, in which it is "sit around and wait" country).

I've been in DC for 30 years and have no patience for 30 year old and younger natives giving me shit. On the other hand, I'll put up with it all day from 60 year old and older natives. I also think transplants that use DC slang in an attempt to look cool actually look silly, with the exception of the word "bama" which I have come to appreciate regardless of who uses it.

I think people who didnt grow up in a major city and haven't had to sit back and watch all their beloved local spots, the very culture that formed the city they were raised in, supplanted by a bunch of entitled people who want to scrub away the interesting character of the city, not to mention make life more difficult for many people whose families have lived in the city for generations (and yes, there is a racial element there as well), need to try to be understanding of the emotion they have seen expressed on this board.

To us, DC is not just "a cool city", a "place you go for work", "the nation's capital", or whatever. It is HOME. Where we spent our childhoods and young adulthoods.

And seeing that irrevocably changed, the history scrubbed out and replaced with shiny, happy new chain stores... it's gross.

Jesus, you don't think this is happening everywhere? You really do need to get out more. Really.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Transplants- go back to flyover country where you belong. You will never truly fit in here, whether you like it or not- fact!

YES!

Oh great. A sock puppet from Texas slagging on DC transplants. Just an FYI, if you are a DC native who no longer lives in DC, you are a transplant yourself. None of us who are here now care if you think we don't fit in. Also, if you are a sock puppet, well, you are a sock puppet and we don't care about either of your opinions.

Right, and I don't walk around with a sense of entitlement regarding my (temporary and recent) new city.

Where are you from Jeff? The "transplant" label seems to have struck a nerve....

I'm from the great state of Illinois. The land of Lincoln and the heart of "flyover" country (unless you have a connection in Chicago in the Winter, in which it is "sit around and wait" country).

I've been in DC for 30 years and have no patience for 30 year old and younger natives giving me shit. On the other hand, I'll put up with it all day from 60 year old and older natives. I also think transplants that use DC slang in an attempt to look cool actually look silly, with the exception of the word "bama" which I have come to appreciate regardless of who uses it.

I think people who didnt grow up in a major city and haven't had to sit back and watch all their beloved local spots, the very culture that formed the city they were raised in, supplanted by a bunch of entitled people who want to scrub away the interesting character of the city, not to mention make life more difficult for many people whose families have lived in the city for generations (and yes, there is a racial element there as well), need to try to be understanding of the emotion they have seen expressed on this board.

To us, DC is not just "a cool city", a "place you go for work", "the nation's capital", or whatever. It is HOME. Where we spent our childhoods and young adulthoods.

And seeing that irrevocably changed, the history scrubbed out and replaced with shiny, happy new chain stores... it's gross.

If you can't hack changes and growth, maybe you (dear native) are the one who needs to leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Transplants- go back to flyover country where you belong. You will never truly fit in here, whether you like it or not- fact!

YES!

Oh great. A sock puppet from Texas slagging on DC transplants. Just an FYI, if you are a DC native who no longer lives in DC, you are a transplant yourself. None of us who are here now care if you think we don't fit in. Also, if you are a sock puppet, well, you are a sock puppet and we don't care about either of your opinions.

Right, and I don't walk around with a sense of entitlement regarding my (temporary and recent) new city.

Where are you from Jeff? The "transplant" label seems to have struck a nerve....

I'm from the great state of Illinois. The land of Lincoln and the heart of "flyover" country (unless you have a connection in Chicago in the Winter, in which it is "sit around and wait" country).

I've been in DC for 30 years and have no patience for 30 year old and younger natives giving me shit. On the other hand, I'll put up with it all day from 60 year old and older natives. I also think transplants that use DC slang in an attempt to look cool actually look silly, with the exception of the word "bama" which I have come to appreciate regardless of who uses it.

I think people who didnt grow up in a major city and haven't had to sit back and watch all their beloved local spots, the very culture that formed the city they were raised in, supplanted by a bunch of entitled people who want to scrub away the interesting character of the city, not to mention make life more difficult for many people whose families have lived in the city for generations (and yes, there is a racial element there as well), need to try to be understanding of the emotion they have seen expressed on this board.

To us, DC is not just "a cool city", a "place you go for work", "the nation's capital", or whatever. It is HOME. Where we spent our childhoods and young adulthoods.

And seeing that irrevocably changed, the history scrubbed out and replaced with shiny, happy new chain stores... it's gross.

Jesus, you don't think this is happening everywhere? You really do need to get out more. Really.

It's actually not. It's happening in certain major urban centers, not all. And DC is one of them.

And, we have every right to complain about it.

Also, due to the nature of DC's industry, government- it attracts a particularly uninteresting and soul-sucking bunch. I'll take the Portland transplants any day over DC transplants.

[Anonymous]

I'm a transplant and actually like most of the DC natives I've met, whereas the same cannot be said about most of the transplants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a transplant and actually like most of the DC natives I've met, whereas the same cannot be said about most of the transplants.

I have found exactly the opposite. The natives seem anxiety ridden and soul sucking, themselves. The fun, funny, enlightened, enlightening, positive people only stay a few years, then move on to bigger and better.

And so it goes.