“I’m from a small town right outside of Washington D.C.”

[Anonymous]

Village of Drummond, in Chevy Chase is very small and right outside of DC

[Anonymous]

Paeonian Springs
Waterford

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are no small towns right outside of Washington D.C. They're all large suburbs, Leesburg included. And as someone correctly pointed out, Leesburg and other areas near there are not "right outside of."

Technically Town of Kensington is right outside of DC. And it probably meets most definitions of “small town” unless you really mean rural.

I grew up in a “small town” in Jersey population 10,000. But it didn’t feel like it because it was part of the metro NYC area. Except for schools which there are by town so I went to school with mostly the same kids from K-12. In my high school class of 200 I didn’t know 5 kids (I counted at graduation 😂).

All that to say the definition of small town is both technical (population, government structure) and subjective (area, distance from city, feeling, etc.)[/quote]

+1 I would never refer to towns well inside the DC metro (Falls Church , Chevy Chase) as a "small town just outside DC". They are part of the DC metro area. To me a "small town" is a distinct area probably surrounded by rural space.

[Anonymous]

Op here. They were from Cheverly. We were having the discussion in Laurel (Howard county side) fwiw.

I remember in the 90s I had a teacher in high school and a classmate who both spoke fondly of Cheverly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. They were from Cheverly. We were having the discussion in Laurel (Howard county side) fwiw.

I remember in the 90s I had a teacher in high school and a classmate who both spoke fondly of Cheverly.

I have a couple of friends who moved to Cheverly from Montgomery county. They love it! I visited once, and it was a very cute neighborhood. I can see a charm and appeal.

As to your original question, I wouldn’t exactly think that was a small town since it’s adjacent to a larger town so it’s part of the larger metropolitan area. I would think towns like Poolesville, Damascus, a small town. It really depends on your perspective.

[Anonymous]

Frederick

[Anonymous]

There are very few towns in the DC area and none of them are small.

[Anonymous]

Falls Church

[Anonymous]

You're talking to a liar op.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably more likely VA than MD, people in exurban maryland feel prouder to rep their state than a person from exurban VA like Leesburg does with being a Virginian

Maybe bc MD has only 2 places of note on a larger scale? Balmer and Annapolis, the latter of which is the smallest capital city

[Anonymous]

Cheverly is kind of a cult, that’s why your friend said something weird about it.

[Anonymous]

Potomac

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. They were from Cheverly. We were having the discussion in Laurel (Howard county side) fwiw.

I remember in the 90s I had a teacher in high school and a classmate who both spoke fondly of Cheverly.

I think Cheverly qualifies.

[Anonymous]

I have no idea where Cheverly is, and I've lived here since 1992.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. They were from Cheverly. We were having the discussion in Laurel (Howard county side) fwiw.

I remember in the 90s I had a teacher in high school and a classmate who both spoke fondly of Cheverly.

I think of Cheverly as more of a neighborhood, even though it is technically a town. It doesn't really have a main street or town center.