How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?

[Anonymous]

You can tell because DC natives will announce their native status every chance they get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They know what you mean when you say which hospital?

Very true! And the only people who ask me this are other DC Natives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can tell because DC natives will announce their native status every chance they get.

Nah, we don’t. We only throw it out there when transplants start claiming that they — and ONLY — they know what the “real” DC is.

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Anonymous wrote:Natives aren’t obsessed with being perceived as being in a big city, don’t refer to Virginia and Maryland as the “bridge and tunnel crowd”, don’t get all hot and bothered when someone from the MD side of Takoma says they’re from DC and insist they’re actually from Maryland and have nothing to do with DC, don’t care about your brush with some famous politician, doesn’t think “no one is from DC”, doesn’t think all cowboys fans are from Texas and knows why, and definitely doesn’t say DMV unless they mean the department of motor vehicles

Let me guess, you live in MD?
I remember when the Bethesda Metro was being constructed.

This actually does bother me. Ha.

My DH (raised in MD) claims he's "from DC" since he was born in a DC hospital. But as someone actually raised here, I disagree.

But people are always pulling stuff like this. "Where are you from?" DC. "Oh which part?" Vienna.
NOPE. Not DC. Sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a DMV-Baltimore accent.

Another transplant alert. The accent are completely different. Baltimoreans in particular have one of the most distinct accents in the country (specifically the way they pronounce words ending in an “oo” sound)

DP: Baltimore has a few accents— with sharp differences between White Baltimore accents and Black Baltimore accents.

There is no DMV -Baltimore accent. I don’t even think that “DMV” is a meaningful entity.

A stranger once walked up to me in NYC and asked me if I was from “NW DC” because they thought I sounded like I was. I am. That really made me more attuned to the specificity of micro-accents.

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Anonymous wrote:Twenty years from now, the answers will be, "You remember when
1) Jackson-Reed was called Wilson
2) Connecticut Ave used contra-flow during rush hour
3) CityLine was Fannie Mae
4) Georgetown Day and Sidwell had separated campuses
5) Rock Creek Park had car traffic north of Broad Branch
6) You used to watch movies as Mazza Gallerie

Real OGs watched movies at Union Station .

Those theaters opened in 1988.

Real OGs remember the creepy adult theaters that used to be down near Ford’s Theater, when that neighborhood was still burned out.

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Anonymous wrote:Transplants keep harping on how they hate DC and how rude DC people are.

+1 They're not used to the rudeness and crime.

Provincials all of them

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Anonymous wrote:My old friends and I often call it "Washington" which I never hear anymore except on the news.

Anyone who says "the city" arrived 5 mins ago and lives outside the Beltway. If they indeed do live in town and call it this, they need to be forcibly removed.

Also, people who refer to most of DC as "downtown" as opposed to actual "downtown" are new/outside the Beltway as well.

And yes, the newbies are ambitious social and career climber types who always are always basically reading you their resume. It's a dead giveaway.

Or better yet, “Warshington”

That is not for people from DC. That is a Baltimore accent. Sorry, nice try.

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Anonymous wrote:National Airport
Cabin John Bridge
Mumbo sauce
Gogo music

We never say that DC is full of transplants, and we get used to having friends move away.

If someone doesn't say the federal agency where they work, chances are it's the CIA.

Spot on!

And if someone says Langley when referring to the CIA. Not from DC and definitely not employed there. Langley is a high school. That is all.

Langley and the CIA are in Virginia, not DC.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in Falls Church - my local people talk about how Tysons was farm land and anything past Fairfax was in the country was "way far out there" aka "where is that?"

[Anonymous]

When you were a kid, JW Marriott gave you pointers on how to run a lemonade stand…Edward Bennett Williams knew your name and invited you to games…you know which direction the smoke wafted in 1968…you are 5th generation Met Club…you drove a car up to the back stairs of the Capitol and got out and no one said anything because it was an open street…your grandparents took you to Sholls…Duke and Billy knew your dad…

[Anonymous]

I can just tell

-native

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Twenty years from now, the answers will be, "You remember when
1) Jackson-Reed was called Wilson
2) Connecticut Ave used contra-flow during rush hour
3) CityLine was Fannie Mae
4) Georgetown Day and Sidwell had separated campuses
5) Rock Creek Park had car traffic north of Broad Branch
6) You used to watch movies as Mazza Gallerie

Real OGs watched movies at Union Station .

Those theaters opened in 1988.

OK? I can't be a DC native if I was only born in '86?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can tell because DC natives will announce their native status every chance they get.

Not nearly as much as a New Yorker announces their NY status and how much better everything is in NY, but here they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Twenty years from now, the answers will be, "You remember when
1) Jackson-Reed was called Wilson
2) Connecticut Ave used contra-flow during rush hour
3) CityLine was Fannie Mae
4) Georgetown Day and Sidwell had separated campuses
5) Rock Creek Park had car traffic north of Broad Branch
6) You used to watch movies as Mazza Gallerie

Real OGs watched movies at Union Station .

Those theaters opened in 1988.

Real OGs remember the creepy adult theaters that used to be down near Ford’s Theater, when that neighborhood was still burned out.

+1. And watched double features at the Biograph in Georgetown.