We found the person who gets really worked up when MD/VA people say they're "from DC"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Have you ever encountered a DC resident saying “I’m from Maryland” or “I’m from Northern Virginia”?

In my experience, DC residents simply say where they are from; loving it or not loving it, they simply provide the place of residence as indicated on their drivers license.

Despite everyone in the world being aware of Maryland and Virginia, you do find Maryland/Virginia residents say “I’m from DC”.

I don’t know what to conclude from this distinction. The distinction is real though.

Yeah, as a DC resident I'm not offended when people from other states say they are from DC, I just don't really get it. How hard is it to say "the DC area" or "near DC" or "just outside DC"? Why wouldn't you just say that if for some reason you did not want to say "Maryland" or "Virginia"?

Because we work in dc, we are there every weekend, and the dc suburbs are very different than say Virginia Beach. And no one cares. When someone asks this, it’s small talk. The general area is fine.

Still, you have to admit this sounds strange. If you work in Maryland, spend weekends in Maryland, but reside in Virginia, would you say you live in Maryland? Of course not.

I live in DC. When I worked in Virginia, when making small talk I didn't tell people I lived in Virginia.

Are you being willfully obtuse? If you live in a suburb of Baltimore and the bartender in Vegas asks where you’re from, do you name the suburb or say “Baltimore”?

Dc is just different because it’s tiny and has suburbs over state lines.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Have you ever encountered a DC resident saying “I’m from Maryland” or “I’m from Northern Virginia”?

In my experience, DC residents simply say where they are from; loving it or not loving it, they simply provide the place of residence as indicated on their drivers license.

Despite everyone in the world being aware of Maryland and Virginia, you do find Maryland/Virginia residents say “I’m from DC”.

I don’t know what to conclude from this distinction. The distinction is real though.

Yeah, as a DC resident I'm not offended when people from other states say they are from DC, I just don't really get it. How hard is it to say "the DC area" or "near DC" or "just outside DC"? Why wouldn't you just say that if for some reason you did not want to say "Maryland" or "Virginia"?

Because we work in dc, we are there every weekend, and the dc suburbs are very different than say Virginia Beach. And no one cares. When someone asks this, it’s small talk. The general area is fine.

Still, you have to admit this sounds strange. If you work in Maryland, spend weekends in Maryland, but reside in Virginia, would you say you live in Maryland? Of course not.

I live in DC. When I worked in Virginia, when making small talk I didn't tell people I lived in Virginia.

Are you being willfully obtuse? If you live in a suburb of Baltimore and the bartender in Vegas asks where you’re from, do you name the suburb or say “Baltimore”?

Dc is just different because it’s tiny and has suburbs over state lines.

Well, if you look young, and you tell the bartender you live in DC and then show a VA driver's license, you aren't getting a drink with that fake ID.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Have you ever encountered a DC resident saying “I’m from Maryland” or “I’m from Northern Virginia”?

In my experience, DC residents simply say where they are from; loving it or not loving it, they simply provide the place of residence as indicated on their drivers license.

Despite everyone in the world being aware of Maryland and Virginia, you do find Maryland/Virginia residents say “I’m from DC”.

I don’t know what to conclude from this distinction. The distinction is real though.

Yeah, as a DC resident I'm not offended when people from other states say they are from DC, I just don't really get it. How hard is it to say "the DC area" or "near DC" or "just outside DC"? Why wouldn't you just say that if for some reason you did not want to say "Maryland" or "Virginia"?

Because we work in dc, we are there every weekend, and the dc suburbs are very different than say Virginia Beach. And no one cares. When someone asks this, it’s small talk. The general area is fine.

Still, you have to admit this sounds strange. If you work in Maryland, spend weekends in Maryland, but reside in Virginia, would you say you live in Maryland? Of course not.

I live in DC. When I worked in Virginia, when making small talk I didn't tell people I lived in Virginia.

Are you being willfully obtuse? If you live in a suburb of Baltimore and the bartender in Vegas asks where you’re from, do you name the suburb or say “Baltimore”?

Dc is just different because it’s tiny and has suburbs over state lines.

Someone living in a Baltimore suburb would say they live in "DC".

You are obviously not paying any attention.

[Anonymous]

When someone asks me, I say "Northern Virginia" because I have no wish to associate myself with the dumpster fire DC is becoming.

[Anonymous]

The DC suburbs are filled with DC natives born and raised in DC.

One of them told me a few years ago...

"I only travel into DC to visit the cemetery where my family members are buried. But back during the 1980s and 1990s I had to stop going for a period because the surrounding neighborhood became very dangerous and me visiting them could easily have turned to me joining them. 6 feet under."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Petula Dvorak has long been the most insipid and inane columnist on the Post’s staff so it’s only fitting she’d pen this column.

And, no, I don’t claim to be “from DC” while living in the burbs. It’s just that she’s the queen of banality. The Post used to have interesting columnists like Jeanne Marie Laskas and Jennifer Moses. Dvorak is just utterly predictable dreck.

Definitely. Dvorak’s “journalism” is painful to read.

[Anonymous]

I was just on a flight from Munich to Washginton, DC. That was spelled out in large letter on every screen. Guess where the plane landed?

I spend a lot of time abroad, and I tell I am from DC there. In reality, I live in North Bethesda. Wait, that's Rockville. Oh well

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was just on a flight from Munich to Washginton, DC. That was spelled out in large letter on every screen. Guess where the plane landed?

I spend a lot of time abroad, and I tell I am from DC there. In reality, I live in North Bethesda. Wait, that's Rockville. Oh well

Touché! We're not flying to Dulles, VA but Washington, DC.

Not sure why some people get their pants into a twist over DC versus the suburbs. You ask someone from the Chicago area where they're from, it's Chicago, not some suburb they live in. Same with Boston and Baltimore and Philadelphia. It's normal. Washington Post subscriptions don't stop at the city lines, do they?

[Anonymous]

Vast parts of Alexandria were actually part of DC at one time.

Google it.

[Anonymous]

You're not from DC if you live in Maryland or Virginia. It's weird to say you are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Have you ever encountered a DC resident saying “I’m from Maryland” or “I’m from Northern Virginia”?

In my experience, DC residents simply say where they are from; loving it or not loving it, they simply provide the place of residence as indicated on their drivers license.

Despite everyone in the world being aware of Maryland and Virginia, you do find Maryland/Virginia residents say “I’m from DC”.

I don’t know what to conclude from this distinction. The distinction is real though.

Yeah, as a DC resident I'm not offended when people from other states say they are from DC, I just don't really get it. How hard is it to say "the DC area" or "near DC" or "just outside DC"? Why wouldn't you just say that if for some reason you did not want to say "Maryland" or "Virginia"?

Because we work in dc, we are there every weekend, and the dc suburbs are very different than say Virginia Beach. And no one cares. When someone asks this, it’s small talk. The general area is fine.

Still, you have to admit this sounds strange. If you work in Maryland, spend weekends in Maryland, but reside in Virginia, would you say you live in Maryland? Of course not.

I live in DC. When I worked in Virginia, when making small talk I didn't tell people I lived in Virginia.

Are you being willfully obtuse? If you live in a suburb of Baltimore and the bartender in Vegas asks where you’re from, do you name the suburb or say “Baltimore”?

Dc is just different because it’s tiny and has suburbs over state lines.

I'm from a suburb of Boston. I say "south of Boston." I don't say Boston, because I'm not a weirdo.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you ever encountered a DC resident saying “I’m from Maryland” or “I’m from Northern Virginia”?

In my experience, DC residents simply say where they are from; loving it or not loving it, they simply provide the place of residence as indicated on their drivers license.

Despite everyone in the world being aware of Maryland and Virginia, you do find Maryland/Virginia residents say “I’m from DC”.

I don’t know what to conclude from this distinction. The distinction is real though.

Yeah, as a DC resident I'm not offended when people from other states say they are from DC, I just don't really get it. How hard is it to say "the DC area" or "near DC" or "just outside DC"? Why wouldn't you just say that if for some reason you did not want to say "Maryland" or "Virginia"?

Because we work in dc, we are there every weekend, and the dc suburbs are very different than say Virginia Beach. And no one cares. When someone asks this, it’s small talk. The general area is fine.

Still, you have to admit this sounds strange. If you work in Maryland, spend weekends in Maryland, but reside in Virginia, would you say you live in Maryland? Of course not.

I live in DC. When I worked in Virginia, when making small talk I didn't tell people I lived in Virginia.

Are you being willfully obtuse? If you live in a suburb of Baltimore and the bartender in Vegas asks where you’re from, do you name the suburb or say “Baltimore”?

Dc is just different because it’s tiny and has suburbs over state lines.

I'm from a suburb of Boston. I say "south of Boston." I don't say Boston, because I'm not a weirdo.

You must be far south. Are people in Leesburg saying “DC”? Doubt it. I’ve been attacked by you obsessives for calling McLean and Arlington “dc” while traveling. That’s weird.

[Anonymous]

Fair is fair. You’re not from DC. I can tell most of the time straight away; even before asking where do you live? What do you then, lie?

It does reflect not so great on the original claimant. I noticed people smirk, and I know a number of people who won’t date people who are like that. It does suggest an inferiority complex.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you ever encountered a DC resident saying “I’m from Maryland” or “I’m from Northern Virginia”?

In my experience, DC residents simply say where they are from; loving it or not loving it, they simply provide the place of residence as indicated on their drivers license.

Despite everyone in the world being aware of Maryland and Virginia, you do find Maryland/Virginia residents say “I’m from DC”.

I don’t know what to conclude from this distinction. The distinction is real though.

Yeah, as a DC resident I'm not offended when people from other states say they are from DC, I just don't really get it. How hard is it to say "the DC area" or "near DC" or "just outside DC"? Why wouldn't you just say that if for some reason you did not want to say "Maryland" or "Virginia"?

Because we work in dc, we are there every weekend, and the dc suburbs are very different than say Virginia Beach. And no one cares. When someone asks this, it’s small talk. The general area is fine.

Still, you have to admit this sounds strange. If you work in Maryland, spend weekends in Maryland, but reside in Virginia, would you say you live in Maryland? Of course not.

I live in DC. When I worked in Virginia, when making small talk I didn't tell people I lived in Virginia.

Are you being willfully obtuse? If you live in a suburb of Baltimore and the bartender in Vegas asks where you’re from, do you name the suburb or say “Baltimore”?

Dc is just different because it’s tiny and has suburbs over state lines.

I'm from a suburb of Boston. I say "south of Boston." I don't say Boston, because I'm not a weirdo.

You must be far south. Are people in Leesburg saying “DC”? Doubt it. I’ve been attacked by you obsessives for calling McLean and Arlington “dc” while traveling. That’s weird.

The PP before you is right. You shouldn’t say DC. It’s icky to claim

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you ever encountered a DC resident saying “I’m from Maryland” or “I’m from Northern Virginia”?

In my experience, DC residents simply say where they are from; loving it or not loving it, they simply provide the place of residence as indicated on their drivers license.

Despite everyone in the world being aware of Maryland and Virginia, you do find Maryland/Virginia residents say “I’m from DC”.

I don’t know what to conclude from this distinction. The distinction is real though.

Yeah, as a DC resident I'm not offended when people from other states say they are from DC, I just don't really get it. How hard is it to say "the DC area" or "near DC" or "just outside DC"? Why wouldn't you just say that if for some reason you did not want to say "Maryland" or "Virginia"?

Because we work in dc, we are there every weekend, and the dc suburbs are very different than say Virginia Beach. And no one cares. When someone asks this, it’s small talk. The general area is fine.

Still, you have to admit this sounds strange. If you work in Maryland, spend weekends in Maryland, but reside in Virginia, would you say you live in Maryland? Of course not.

I live in DC. When I worked in Virginia, when making small talk I didn't tell people I lived in Virginia.

Are you being willfully obtuse? If you live in a suburb of Baltimore and the bartender in Vegas asks where you’re from, do you name the suburb or say “Baltimore”?

Dc is just different because it’s tiny and has suburbs over state lines.

I'm from a suburb of Boston. I say "south of Boston." I don't say Boston, because I'm not a weirdo.

You must be far south. Are people in Leesburg saying “DC”? Doubt it. I’ve been attacked by you obsessives for calling McLean and Arlington “dc” while traveling. That’s weird.

The PP before you is right. You shouldn’t say DC. It’s icky to claim

Nobody is claiming anything, it's just an approximation.