What do you consider “middle of nowhere Maryland” or “middle of nowhere Virginia”, where did your mind take you?

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Anonymous wrote:My grandparents lived in Claremont. In the sticks.

This one seems too close to Richmond and Virginia Beach to truly be middle of nowhere.

Current population is 306. Have you ever been to Surry County? GTFOH with your "seems" nonsense.

Surry County.....where they still talk about the War of Northern Aggression.

LOL, no. Surry is 41% black. Do you know anything about that area?

Gee, I wonder what historical phenomenon led to a large black population in a small southern town and whether any of the sociological elements that led to those demographics still have an influence.

You're describing a large part of the south. What small southern town is Surry County? It isn't a town, it is a county. The largest town in that county is Claremont, and that has a little over 300 people. Claremont was the site of the Temperance, Industrial, and Collegiate Institute in 1892 for black students and it was over 65 acres large and served students from all over Virginia.

People are not talking about the civil war there now. The county is large and very rural. People are also very poor, all of them (black and white). So I don't know what kind of troll you are, but you really need to educate yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't consider anywhere in either state the middle of nowhere because I am from a non-coastal state out West where there are lots of places (including where I grew up) where the nearest *small* city is at least a day's drive away.

There is nowhere in either of these states where you can't be in Richmond or Baltimore or DC by lunch if you left a breakfast.

Agree. I am surprised by people who do not understand the meaning of the middle of nowhere.

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More familiar with VA than Maryland. I'd say once you get to Linden or so on 66 you are at the edge of the middle of nowhere.

20 years ago when I moved here I would have considered Gainesville and Haymarket the middle of nowhere. Or even Manassas lol. Things have changed.

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The gatekeeping of what is and isn't middle of nowhere is insane. Different people have different opinions and that's ok.

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Denton Md

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Anonymous wrote:More familiar with VA than Maryland. I'd say once you get to Linden or so on 66 you are at the edge of the middle of nowhere.

20 years ago when I moved here I would have considered Gainesville and Haymarket the middle of nowhere. Or even Manassas lol. Things have changed.

Linden is on a major interstate and practically next to Front Royal and not far from Winchester and in the eastern direction not far from a whole lot of population density. I wonder if some of the differences in opinion here are people grew up in and have been all over Virginia and those who haven't. There are so many places in VA that I don't consider middle of nowhere that have been mentioned on this thread, but maybe that's because I've been to many of them many times and have traveled all over most of the state.

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asburtn

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Hyattsville
Skippers

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DC is the biggest nowhere that people think is somewhere. What a waste of space.

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I consider a place to be near Nowhere if it is more than 20 miles away from a Costco.