Transplant vs native

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The first three digits of my social are 577

I used to jack candy bars from Rodmans when my mom wasn’t looking.

I would walk to Hellers bakery and buy two donuts and the weekend Post for my Father for $1.55

I fell in love with baseball at Turtle Park and once hit a home run that almost made it to Maryland from the field at 44th and Western.

I moved out to the country for high school so I never stuck around for the post-M. Barry revival. Even today, I still know you don’t let your purse hang loose down past Florida Ave.

But if you say you’re from DC. I’ll ask you quite pointedly; 577 or 578? And if you look at me funny I’ll know you really mean Rockville.

FWIW, your SSN tell depends on when the person was born. I was born in DC, but don’t have 557 or 8.

These DCUM native threads always end up skewing so NW.

Isn't DC is 577 or 8 not 557 or 8?

Yes, PP misquoted it

[Anonymous]

Born at GW in 1974. Lived here continuously for the past 26 years. But my accent is European - can I consider myself a native?

- always call DCA National
- DMV is where you get your license
- refer to “The district”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The first three digits of my social are 577

I used to jack candy bars from Rodmans when my mom wasn’t looking.

I would walk to Hellers bakery and buy two donuts and the weekend Post for my Father for $1.55

I fell in love with baseball at Turtle Park and once hit a home run that almost made it to Maryland from the field at 44th and Western.

I moved out to the country for high school so I never stuck around for the post-M. Barry revival. Even today, I still know you don’t let your purse hang loose down past Florida Ave.

But if you say you’re from DC. I’ll ask you quite pointedly; 577 or 578? And if you look at me funny I’ll know you really mean Rockville.

FWIW, your SSN tell depends on when the person was born. I was born in DC, but don’t have 557 or 8.

These DCUM native threads always end up skewing so NW.

So what is your son tell? What does nw have to do with it?

I was born in SE DC, and my SSN doesn’t start with 557 or 558. So PP’s question is not as determinative as she thinks it is.

On a related note, when these “native” threads pop up routinely on DCUM, they tend to focus on a fairly narrow, white NWDC perspective. Nothing wrong with that, just know that it’s only one perspective.

Well keep in mind DC natives born before gentrified DC included non white people too. I'm Hispanic and my parents rented in northwest and I went to school in dc. Most of DC was bad back then no matter the area from the stories told to me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also, it's National Airport to Natives. Not "Reagan."

We moved here 32 years ago and we call it "National." Have we graduated to "native" status?

I don't think anyone can "graduate" to native status? Weird question. I've been in DC a long time but I will ALWAYS be a native New Yorker. Always. I wouldn't view DC native status as an accomplishment though, they're #2 as the most insecure in comparison to NYC and love to pick a fight (Boston #1) no matter how much I kiss ass about how I love and choose the city.

I'm sure you will ALWAYS be a native New Yorker and I'm sure you will ALWAYS be sure to let us know. Thanks.

Everyone is a New Yorker once they start paying rent.

A group of friends once chartered a boat in a fabulous destination and the captain asked where everyone was from. When Suzy said she was from NY, a legit native born New Yorker said, “WTF, Suzy? You’ve lived in nyc for like 2 years and now you are a New Yorker?” Suzy was embarrassed, so a friend quickly jumped in and said, “STFU, Mary! You might have been born and raised in nyc, but your parents shipped you off to Chaute for your formative years. You’re more of a New England a$$hat than a real hardscrabble New Yorker. I mean, you learned to drive in the suburbs.”

Anyway, New Yorkers win the prize for being the most fixated on native status…and they use definitions that are convenient.

At least New Yorkers live somewhere cool, and have something to actually brag about. DC area people seem to think that everyone strives to live and die here. Shoot me first.

And you are from no where town USA that you left family and friends behind for something bigger and better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The first three digits of my social are 577

I used to jack candy bars from Rodmans when my mom wasn’t looking.

I would walk to Hellers bakery and buy two donuts and the weekend Post for my Father for $1.55

I fell in love with baseball at Turtle Park and once hit a home run that almost made it to Maryland from the field at 44th and Western.

I moved out to the country for high school so I never stuck around for the post-M. Barry revival. Even today, I still know you don’t let your purse hang loose down past Florida Ave.

But if you say you’re from DC. I’ll ask you quite pointedly; 577 or 578? And if you look at me funny I’ll know you really mean Rockville.

FWIW, your SSN tell depends on when the person was born. I was born in DC, but don’t have 557 or 8.

These DCUM native threads always end up skewing so NW.

So what is your son tell? What does nw have to do with it?

I was born in SE DC, and my SSN doesn’t start with 557 or 558. So PP’s question is not as determinative as she thinks it is.

On a related note, when these “native” threads pop up routinely on DCUM, they tend to focus on a fairly narrow, white NWDC perspective. Nothing wrong with that, just know that it’s only one perspective.

Why don’t you just share yours? Instead of criticizing others.

+1. So true. Happy to sit back and judge, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, it's National Airport to Natives. Not "Reagan."

We moved here 32 years ago and we call it "National." Have we graduated to "native" status?

I don't think anyone can "graduate" to native status? Weird question. I've been in DC a long time but I will ALWAYS be a native New Yorker. Always. I wouldn't view DC native status as an accomplishment though, they're #2 as the most insecure in comparison to NYC and love to pick a fight (Boston #1) no matter how much I kiss ass about how I love and choose the city.

I'm sure you will ALWAYS be a native New Yorker and I'm sure you will ALWAYS be sure to let us know. Thanks.

Everyone is a New Yorker once they start paying rent.

A group of friends once chartered a boat in a fabulous destination and the captain asked where everyone was from. When Suzy said she was from NY, a legit native born New Yorker said, “WTF, Suzy? You’ve lived in nyc for like 2 years and now you are a New Yorker?” Suzy was embarrassed, so a friend quickly jumped in and said, “STFU, Mary! You might have been born and raised in nyc, but your parents shipped you off to Chaute for your formative years. You’re more of a New England a$$hat than a real hardscrabble New Yorker. I mean, you learned to drive in the suburbs.”

Anyway, New Yorkers win the prize for being the most fixated on native status…and they use definitions that are convenient.

At least New Yorkers live somewhere cool, and have something to actually brag about. DC area people seem to think that everyone strives to live and die here. Shoot me first.

And you are from no where town USA that you left family and friends behind for something bigger and better?

I am from NYC, and see my old and new friends regularly. Not that I should explain myself to you, because you don't deserve air time - and not that you have any friends, because you are rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, it's National Airport to Natives. Not "Reagan."

You can’t have lived here long if you really believe this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The first three digits of my social are 577

I used to jack candy bars from Rodmans when my mom wasn’t looking.

I would walk to Hellers bakery and buy two donuts and the weekend Post for my Father for $1.55

I fell in love with baseball at Turtle Park and once hit a home run that almost made it to Maryland from the field at 44th and Western.

I moved out to the country for high school so I never stuck around for the post-M. Barry revival. Even today, I still know you don’t let your purse hang loose down past Florida Ave.

But if you say you’re from DC. I’ll ask you quite pointedly; 577 or 578? And if you look at me funny I’ll know you really mean Rockville.

FWIW, your SSN tell depends on when the person was born. I was born in DC, but don’t have 557 or 8.

These DCUM native threads always end up skewing so NW.

The only people I hear brag about native status are realtors. The worst agency is Washington Fine Properties. I remember when we were looking for houses whenever we encountered their agents they always bragged about being second, third or fourth generation Washingtonian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Married a true District of Columbia native born at Columbia Women's. I've lived here 30 years -- most of my adult life -- but grew up in Midwest.

IMO a tell between the _very_ few white natives and someone who grew up elsewhere* is that the white natives are less kind, more aloof, more insular. At baseline, their personality is not "Hi everyone! C'mon in!"

Note that I'm speaking only of DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NATIVES. Fairfax County miitary kids don't count, Rockville children of scientists don't count. Just white now-adults who grew up in the 60s - 80s in the District.

If you're a white family in 1970 and you 1) chose to buy in the the District (vs. Arlington or Chevy ChaseMD and 2) stayed in DC throughout your children's childhood and then 3) educated them in DC .... you are actually very rare indeed. Census data bear this out.

White people didn't begin staying in the District and raising their children to adulthood in any significant numbers until well into the 2000s. Again, census data will prove this so pls don't bother arguing.

There just aren't many white adults native to DC over the age of 20.

LOL as if living on one side of Western is a distinct experience growing up to living on the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The first three digits of my social are 577

I used to jack candy bars from Rodmans when my mom wasn’t looking.

I would walk to Hellers bakery and buy two donuts and the weekend Post for my Father for $1.55

I fell in love with baseball at Turtle Park and once hit a home run that almost made it to Maryland from the field at 44th and Western.

I moved out to the country for high school so I never stuck around for the post-M. Barry revival. Even today, I still know you don’t let your purse hang loose down past Florida Ave.

But if you say you’re from DC. I’ll ask you quite pointedly; 577 or 578? And if you look at me funny I’ll know you really mean Rockville.

Thanks! With a mom who has 577 and me a 578 I did not know that about ssns.

What does it mean to have a 220 SSN?

220 is Maryland.

https://www.usatrace.com/ssnchart/

I have an SSN that starts with a supposedly Maryland prefix and I am from DC.

[Anonymous]

My grandfather graduated from Central HS in 1918 so I'm about as local as you can get.

The tell is people who still say "WaRshington". Very few left, I think my 87 year old father is the only one who still says that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My grandfather graduated from Central HS in 1918 so I'm about as local as you can get.

The tell is people who still say "WaRshington". Very few left, I think my 87 year old father is the only one who still says that.

That’s just an age thing.

[Anonymous]

Most natives don’t get wrapped around the axle about what makes you a native.

I was born in DC, went to school in DC, and because I lived a stones throw into Maryland some yahoo from Nebraska will mansplain to me that I’m not a DC native.

So, through my life I’ve concluded the only people who “care” as in care enough to correct and dig are the people from somewhere else.

I don’t GAF enough to tell you that if you’re from Grubb you’re not from DC but if you’re from Primrose you’re a native.

It did always seem like Virginians had their own center of gravity and would rarely say “DC” rather say Alexandria or Fairfax - but Marylanders, even from outside the beltway, would say DC. I think it’s about where your center of gravity was growing up and where the nexus of “stuff” was. Virginia has a lot of areas not socially close to DC at all. Whereas a lot of the areas of Maryland never seemed that socially separate from DC . I guess some of it is the land border but socially there seems to be affinity between Maryland and DC (both WOTR and EOTR) and Virginia was always different.

[Anonymous]

Does it matter? If you're an adult, and you've lived here long enough to grow up here, then you were native to a sad, provincial city in a period of miserable decline.

Frankly, DC benefited from "transplants" who came from bigger and better cities and, at least pre-pandemic, brough money, energy, and a more cosmopolitan perspective to try to build this place up a little.

We used to say DC was a small town person's idea of what a city ought to be...

[Anonymous]

Our 40th president died nearly two decades ago, and yet he still lives in your minds rent free.