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Why do people in DC/MD look down on Virginians?
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Anonymous
Please tell me you aren't using this data to back up PP's claim that Mercedes and Jags are the norm for most DC residents. Another casualty of the DC public schools . . . |
Anonymous
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Estimated median income for DC In 2009 - $59,290.
Estimated median income for Chevy Chase, MD in 2009 - $205,776. If you think the shops at Chevy Chase pavillion are DC, you are living in a little bubble. You moved as far to the edge of DC you could possibly get without getting a MD zip code and are pretending it is DC. It is not. |
Anonymous
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I'm the person who made the comment back when last night about my home overlooking the Chevy Chase Pavilion. It's in DC, are people actually arguing about that?
Anyway, it is a big draw for AA people from Maryland who fill Cheesecake Factory and Maggiano's to the rafters every night. Some drive Mercedes, and some do not, judging from the valet line. I don't know a single DC resident near me who eats at either restaurant. |
Anonymous
Wow, what a useful comparison! If you had the numbers for 20015 and 20016, the ZIP codes that border that shopping area, that would be a lot more relevant. But that information wouldn't make your point as clearly now, would it? |
Anonymous
I'm not even sure what point you are trying to make. I think we are agreeing with each other. The Chevy Chase DC neighborhood is not an accurate representation of DC as a whole. It is more similar to Chevy Chase, MD. Heck, even the wikipedia entry indicates it is more similar to the MD neighborhoods. I absolutely agree that the Chevy Chase DC area is very affluent, if that is what you are trying to argue? Is that your point? |
Anonymous
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12:06, why does it matter that the people eating at Maggiano's and Cheesecake Factory are AA and from Maryland (according to your scientific review of the valet line?)
Sounds like you need to move your discriminatory self over to Virginia. Then you won't have to lawy your eyes on so many AA people. But, you will have to see Hispanics in some parts. Will that be a problem for you? |
Anonymous
It matters only because it provides pretty strong evidence that the diner at Maggiano's and Cheesecake Factory are not coming from the two Maryland zip codes closest to those DC restaurants. The Somerset area is 91.8% white. Lower 20815 just above Western in CCvillage is even less black than that. The point is that these destination restaurants are there to serve Marylanders from not-too-nearby. They're not there to make money off of the denizens of CC DC |
Anonymous
But the Chevy Chase DC neighborhood isn't even the wealthiest neighborhood in DC. So what is your effing point? That because it is close to MD it is somehow MD? Are you that daft? |
Anonymous
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I don't know why the DC/Maryland people look down on Virginians. However, given how this thread has deteriorated into some bizarre argument about incomes in Chevy Chase, I am glad not to live near the short-tempered people who are posting from there.
I live in North Arlington. We have lower taxes and good services, including numerous parks within walking distance of my home. My DH's commute to Connecticut and L is only 10 minutes (he does go before the traffic gets bad). He used to commute from Van Ness/UDC, which was much longer because of the choking traffic from Maryland. As for some of the other points: there are plenty of neighborhoods in Virginia that have always been wealthy, just as there are plenty of neighborhoods in MoCo that are still just plain old middle class neighborhoods. But if it helps your bitterness at paying your higher taxes, go ahead and look down on us. We don't care. |
Anonymous
| What OP is precisely referring to is DC and MD snobbery toward close-in VA burbs like Alexandria, Arlington and McLean. I think (having lived in both DC and Arlington) it is a question of aesthetics. NWDC, Chevy Chase and Bethesda have many lovely areas with pretty landscaping, forrests, and houses. Arlington is fairly hideous (split levels and ranchers) with a very few pretty pockets like Country Club HIlls and Maywood/Cherrydale but even those areas have some seriously uglies as well. Alexandria is prettier but too many tiny colonials and so inconvenient to everywhere else in the metro area. McLean also has afew pretty pockets but too many McMansions and ranchers. Also, it is an accessibility snobbery - in VA you have to cross a bridge, which is more likely to get backed-up with traffic, to get to the rest of the metro area. Getting stuck crossing a bridge is a serious con to many people. |
Anonymous
| the accessibility argument is so backwards. try to get downtown from bethesda or arlington, and tell me what takes longer. |
Anonymous
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I grew up outside of the area, lived in VA when I got here, then moved to MD, and have lived in DC for the past 12 years. If we leave the city, it'll likely be to Northern Virginia - but if my office location changes, that could change to MD. I don't look down on anyone based on where they live - how silly is that?
I do, however, look down on all of you who are engaged in the pissing contest about Chevy Chase, Friendship Heights, and the racial and income makeup of those who shop or live there. Good God, people. |
Anonymous
NW Your argument is soo stupid. So DC's borders should end at around the downtown area and all the "suburban" areas of NW DC should become Maryland? |
Anonymous