Panhandle West Virginia: Becoming an exurb of DC?

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Anonymous wrote:The panhandle will become a unique part of WV like northern virginia is to Virginia, it will eventually fade from being culturally similar to the rest of the state, racially, politically, industrially, etc.

Eventually? It’s been that way for 50 + years. We only got DC news growing up, except one Hagerstown station that has since moved to DC. People have commuted here to DC all my life. We took school field trips to DC and Baltimore at least 5 times growing up. The idea that you think this is new amuses me. It’s always been culturally similar to DC but still has WV ways. Don’t roll up in neighborhoods you don’t know anytime but especially after dark, neighbors watch out for neighbors, people open constitutional carry, concealed carry is pretty easy to get, we protect our neighbors, stand your ground laws apply, conservative overall but nobody cares if you’re liberal as long as you don’t care if someone else isn’t. Don’t act like a d in general or be a bad neighbor, myob, respect people they respect you. Don’t freak out by target practice, deer hunting, big trucks, barking dogs, 4 wheelers, horses on roads, and don’t drive like you do in DC - you’ll likely kill your self or someone else driving old horse and buggy roads like that.

I live in Fauquier County and most of this applies here as well. One of the things we love most is that your political party affiliation isn’t a litmus test. Our neighbors are all Republicans and we trust all of them more than we ever did any of our neighbors in MoCo. We also enjoy the big dogs and trucks, and our local law enforcement and military friendly brewery. The police department and fire department showed up for back to school night as part of the community. You couldn’t pay me to move back to the inner suburbs of DC.

Sounds like a place only white people are welcomed, pass. I like diversity and its a shame we want to segregate ourselves away from others.

Fauquier County is more diverse than Ward 3 DC. 75% white vs 80%.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The panhandle will become a unique part of WV like northern virginia is to Virginia, it will eventually fade from being culturally similar to the rest of the state, racially, politically, industrially, etc.

Eventually? It’s been that way for 50 + years. We only got DC news growing up, except one Hagerstown station that has since moved to DC. People have commuted here to DC all my life. We took school field trips to DC and Baltimore at least 5 times growing up. The idea that you think this is new amuses me. It’s always been culturally similar to DC but still has WV ways. Don’t roll up in neighborhoods you don’t know anytime but especially after dark, neighbors watch out for neighbors, people open constitutional carry, concealed carry is pretty easy to get, we protect our neighbors, stand your ground laws apply, conservative overall but nobody cares if you’re liberal as long as you don’t care if someone else isn’t. Don’t act like a d in general or be a bad neighbor, myob, respect people they respect you. Don’t freak out by target practice, deer hunting, big trucks, barking dogs, 4 wheelers, horses on roads, and don’t drive like you do in DC - you’ll likely kill your self or someone else driving old horse and buggy roads like that.

I live in Fauquier County and most of this applies here as well. One of the things we love most is that your political party affiliation isn’t a litmus test. Our neighbors are all Republicans and we trust all of them more than we ever did any of our neighbors in MoCo. We also enjoy the big dogs and trucks, and our local law enforcement and military friendly brewery. The police department and fire department showed up for back to school night as part of the community. You couldn’t pay me to move back to the inner suburbs of DC.

Sounds like a place only white people are welcomed, pass. I like diversity and its a shame we want to segregate ourselves away from others.

Fauquier County is more diverse than Ward 3 DC. 75% white vs 80%.

Bethesda is also less diverse at 85% white. Let’s be real, when people talk about diversity they are also generally grouping Asian people into the white category. Unless you live in Potomac, McLean, Falls Church, Vienna or any other favored DCUM suburb, and then you want to extol the virtues of diversity because there are a few well to do Chinese and Indian families in your neighborhood. Spare me your virtue signaling.

[Anonymous]

Loudon Va, is really, really ugly - filled with houses that look like they got built in a Chinese factory and shipped over in pieces.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are people who live in southern PA and DE who commute to jobs in the DMV. Are we going to add those states as well?

The core region of greater Washington includes the District, parts of Maryland, and parts of Virginia. Period. There's no reason to start adding distant exurbs in other states to suggest that, for example, West Virginia is on par with either Maryland or Virginia.

Bring it up with the Census Bureau.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The panhandle will become a unique part of WV like northern virginia is to Virginia, it will eventually fade from being culturally similar to the rest of the state, racially, politically, industrially, etc.

Eventually? It’s been that way for 50 + years. We only got DC news growing up, except one Hagerstown station that has since moved to DC. People have commuted here to DC all my life. We took school field trips to DC and Baltimore at least 5 times growing up. The idea that you think this is new amuses me. It’s always been culturally similar to DC but still has WV ways. Don’t roll up in neighborhoods you don’t know anytime but especially after dark, neighbors watch out for neighbors, people open constitutional carry, concealed carry is pretty easy to get, we protect our neighbors, stand your ground laws apply, conservative overall but nobody cares if you’re liberal as long as you don’t care if someone else isn’t. Don’t act like a d in general or be a bad neighbor, myob, respect people they respect you. Don’t freak out by target practice, deer hunting, big trucks, barking dogs, 4 wheelers, horses on roads, and don’t drive like you do in DC - you’ll likely kill your self or someone else driving old horse and buggy roads like that.

I live in Fauquier County and most of this applies here as well. One of the things we love most is that your political party affiliation isn’t a litmus test. Our neighbors are all Republicans and we trust all of them more than we ever did any of our neighbors in MoCo. We also enjoy the big dogs and trucks, and our local law enforcement and military friendly brewery. The police department and fire department showed up for back to school night as part of the community. You couldn’t pay me to move back to the inner suburbs of DC.

Honestly, it sounds like your political views are a litmus test, it's just that you have to be a Republican

And all the responses to this are exactly why I couldn’t get away from MoCo fast enough. Everything has to be a referendum on how liberal or progressive you are and if you aren’t in lock step with the liberal talking points you’re labeled a racist and told you must be MAGA.

You probably have zero black friends, sit down republican

[Anonymous]

I don't think all conservatives are racists. They are entitled to their fiscal opinions. Just because they oppose government spending on social programs, that doesn't make them racists. That makes them people who want smaller government. HOWEVER, I do believe Tump supporters are racist.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think all conservatives are racists. They are entitled to their fiscal opinions. Just because they oppose government spending on social programs, that doesn't make them racists. That makes them people who want smaller government. HOWEVER, I do believe Tump supporters are racist.

And they would be either wrong or hypocritical there too given the economic states left by Bush, Bush and Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:The panhandle will become a unique part of WV like northern virginia is to Virginia, it will eventually fade from being culturally similar to the rest of the state, racially, politically, industrially, etc.

Eventually? It’s been that way for 50 + years. We only got DC news growing up, except one Hagerstown station that has since moved to DC. People have commuted here to DC all my life. We took school field trips to DC and Baltimore at least 5 times growing up. The idea that you think this is new amuses me. It’s always been culturally similar to DC but still has WV ways. Don’t roll up in neighborhoods you don’t know anytime but especially after dark, neighbors watch out for neighbors, people open constitutional carry, concealed carry is pretty easy to get, we protect our neighbors, stand your ground laws apply, conservative overall but nobody cares if you’re liberal as long as you don’t care if someone else isn’t. Don’t act like a d in general or be a bad neighbor, myob, respect people they respect you. Don’t freak out by target practice, deer hunting, big trucks, barking dogs, 4 wheelers, horses on roads, and don’t drive like you do in DC - you’ll likely kill your self or someone else driving old horse and buggy roads like that.

I live in Fauquier County and most of this applies here as well. One of the things we love most is that your political party affiliation isn’t a litmus test. Our neighbors are all Republicans and we trust all of them more than we ever did any of our neighbors in MoCo. We also enjoy the big dogs and trucks, and our local law enforcement and military friendly brewery. The police department and fire department showed up for back to school night as part of the community. You couldn’t pay me to move back to the inner suburbs of DC.

Sounds like a place only white people are welcomed, pass. I like diversity and its a shame we want to segregate ourselves away from others.

Fauquier County is more diverse than Ward 3 DC. 75% white vs 80%.

Bethesda is also less diverse at 85% white. Let’s be real, when people talk about diversity they are also generally grouping Asian people into the white category. Unless you live in Potomac, McLean, Falls Church, Vienna or any other favored DCUM suburb, and then you want to extol the virtues of diversity because there are a few well to do Chinese and Indian families in your neighborhood. Spare me your virtue signaling.

As an Asian, I'd rather live in Bethesda than anywhere in WV which has < 1% Asian population.

Let's be real... MoCo is a super diverse area. Top 10 most diverse small cities are in MoCo. No place in WV even makes the top 100.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The panhandle will become a unique part of WV like northern virginia is to Virginia, it will eventually fade from being culturally similar to the rest of the state, racially, politically, industrially, etc.

Eventually? It’s been that way for 50 + years. We only got DC news growing up, except one Hagerstown station that has since moved to DC. People have commuted here to DC all my life. We took school field trips to DC and Baltimore at least 5 times growing up. The idea that you think this is new amuses me. It’s always been culturally similar to DC but still has WV ways. Don’t roll up in neighborhoods you don’t know anytime but especially after dark, neighbors watch out for neighbors, people open constitutional carry, concealed carry is pretty easy to get, we protect our neighbors, stand your ground laws apply, conservative overall but nobody cares if you’re liberal as long as you don’t care if someone else isn’t. Don’t act like a d in general or be a bad neighbor, myob, respect people they respect you. Don’t freak out by target practice, deer hunting, big trucks, barking dogs, 4 wheelers, horses on roads, and don’t drive like you do in DC - you’ll likely kill your self or someone else driving old horse and buggy roads like that.

I live in Fauquier County and most of this applies here as well. One of the things we love most is that your political party affiliation isn’t a litmus test. Our neighbors are all Republicans and we trust all of them more than we ever did any of our neighbors in MoCo. We also enjoy the big dogs and trucks, and our local law enforcement and military friendly brewery. The police department and fire department showed up for back to school night as part of the community. You couldn’t pay me to move back to the inner suburbs of DC.

Sounds like a place only white people are welcomed, pass. I like diversity and its a shame we want to segregate ourselves away from others.

Fauquier County is more diverse than Ward 3 DC. 75% white vs 80%.

Bethesda is also less diverse at 85% white. Let’s be real, when people talk about diversity they are also generally grouping Asian people into the white category. Unless you live in Potomac, McLean, Falls Church, Vienna or any other favored DCUM suburb, and then you want to extol the virtues of diversity because there are a few well to do Chinese and Indian families in your neighborhood. Spare me your virtue signaling.

As an Asian, I'd rather live in Bethesda than anywhere in WV which has < 1% Asian population.

Let's be real... MoCo is a super diverse area. Top 10 most diverse small cities are in MoCo. No place in WV even makes the top 100.

The places in MoCo that are considered diverse, like say Wheaton or Germantown, are the same places that DCUM turns it’s nose up at and says “who could possibly want to live there”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The panhandle will become a unique part of WV like northern virginia is to Virginia, it will eventually fade from being culturally similar to the rest of the state, racially, politically, industrially, etc.

Eventually? It’s been that way for 50 + years. We only got DC news growing up, except one Hagerstown station that has since moved to DC. People have commuted here to DC all my life. We took school field trips to DC and Baltimore at least 5 times growing up. The idea that you think this is new amuses me. It’s always been culturally similar to DC but still has WV ways. Don’t roll up in neighborhoods you don’t know anytime but especially after dark, neighbors watch out for neighbors, people open constitutional carry, concealed carry is pretty easy to get, we protect our neighbors, stand your ground laws apply, conservative overall but nobody cares if you’re liberal as long as you don’t care if someone else isn’t. Don’t act like a d in general or be a bad neighbor, myob, respect people they respect you. Don’t freak out by target practice, deer hunting, big trucks, barking dogs, 4 wheelers, horses on roads, and don’t drive like you do in DC - you’ll likely kill your self or someone else driving old horse and buggy roads like that.

I live in Fauquier County and most of this applies here as well. One of the things we love most is that your political party affiliation isn’t a litmus test. Our neighbors are all Republicans and we trust all of them more than we ever did any of our neighbors in MoCo. We also enjoy the big dogs and trucks, and our local law enforcement and military friendly brewery. The police department and fire department showed up for back to school night as part of the community. You couldn’t pay me to move back to the inner suburbs of DC.

Sounds like a place only white people are welcomed, pass. I like diversity and its a shame we want to segregate ourselves away from others.

Fauquier County is more diverse than Ward 3 DC. 75% white vs 80%.

Bethesda is also less diverse at 85% white. Let’s be real, when people talk about diversity they are also generally grouping Asian people into the white category. Unless you live in Potomac, McLean, Falls Church, Vienna or any other favored DCUM suburb, and then you want to extol the virtues of diversity because there are a few well to do Chinese and Indian families in your neighborhood. Spare me your virtue signaling.

Bethesda is 71.8% white, non-hispanic:

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/bethesdacdpmaryland

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The health care options are poor - my inlaws retired there and had alot of issues - for serious care they were sent to frederick and if it was really serious all the way in to hopkins - not a great situation

The hospital in Charles Town was like a mash unit

Martinsburg now has a hospital run by WVU, and Hagerstown has Meritus which is excellent. Trauma cases get flown to Fairfax Inova or Cowley in Baltimore, but all the rest can be handled locally.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The panhandle will become a unique part of WV like northern virginia is to Virginia, it will eventually fade from being culturally similar to the rest of the state, racially, politically, industrially, etc.

Eventually? It’s been that way for 50 + years. We only got DC news growing up, except one Hagerstown station that has since moved to DC. People have commuted here to DC all my life. We took school field trips to DC and Baltimore at least 5 times growing up. The idea that you think this is new amuses me. It’s always been culturally similar to DC but still has WV ways. Don’t roll up in neighborhoods you don’t know anytime but especially after dark, neighbors watch out for neighbors, people open constitutional carry, concealed carry is pretty easy to get, we protect our neighbors, stand your ground laws apply, conservative overall but nobody cares if you’re liberal as long as you don’t care if someone else isn’t. Don’t act like a d in general or be a bad neighbor, myob, respect people they respect you. Don’t freak out by target practice, deer hunting, big trucks, barking dogs, 4 wheelers, horses on roads, and don’t drive like you do in DC - you’ll likely kill your self or someone else driving old horse and buggy roads like that.

I live in Fauquier County and most of this applies here as well. One of the things we love most is that your political party affiliation isn’t a litmus test. Our neighbors are all Republicans and we trust all of them more than we ever did any of our neighbors in MoCo. We also enjoy the big dogs and trucks, and our local law enforcement and military friendly brewery. The police department and fire department showed up for back to school night as part of the community. You couldn’t pay me to move back to the inner suburbs of DC.

Sounds like a place only white people are welcomed, pass. I like diversity and its a shame we want to segregate ourselves away from others.

Fauquier County is more diverse than Ward 3 DC. 75% white vs 80%.

Bethesda is also less diverse at 85% white. Let’s be real, when people talk about diversity they are also generally grouping Asian people into the white category. Unless you live in Potomac, McLean, Falls Church, Vienna or any other favored DCUM suburb, and then you want to extol the virtues of diversity because there are a few well to do Chinese and Indian families in your neighborhood. Spare me your virtue signaling.

As an Asian, I'd rather live in Bethesda than anywhere in WV which has < 1% Asian population.

Let's be real... MoCo is a super diverse area. Top 10 most diverse small cities are in MoCo. No place in WV even makes the top 100.

The places in MoCo that are considered diverse, like say Wheaton or Germantown, are the same places that DCUM turns it’s nose up at and says “who could possibly want to live there”.

PP here..

shrug.. doesn't change the fact that I would rather live in Bethesda than WV any day. Also, I live in Rockville, #10 most diverse city.

[Anonymous]

Born and raised in NW DC. Moved to Charlestown, WV years ago......trust me.....nobody in the panhandle who is from there wants to be part of the DMV and I don't blame them. Lord knows I wouldn't and I am glad to be out of there.

[Anonymous]

I live in WV (Morgantown) and my husband is a federal contractor for the DOJ. The DOJ employees he works with get DC metro area locality pay.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are people who live in southern PA and DE who commute to jobs in the DMV. Are we going to add those states as well?

The core region of greater Washington includes the District, parts of Maryland, and parts of Virginia. Period. There's no reason to start adding distant exurbs in other states to suggest that, for example, West Virginia is on par with either Maryland or Virginia.

LOL. You haven’t lived here very long, have you?

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Why is it always transplants to the region who think they know best? The arrogance is astounding.