Panhandle West Virginia: Becoming an exurb of DC?

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Anonymous wrote:The panhandle will become a unique part of WV like northern virginia is to Virginia, it will eventually fade from being culturally similar to the rest of the state, racially, politically, industrially, etc.

Eventually? It’s been that way for 50 + years. We only got DC news growing up, except one Hagerstown station that has since moved to DC. People have commuted here to DC all my life. We took school field trips to DC and Baltimore at least 5 times growing up. The idea that you think this is new amuses me. It’s always been culturally similar to DC but still has WV ways. Don’t roll up in neighborhoods you don’t know anytime but especially after dark, neighbors watch out for neighbors, people open constitutional carry, concealed carry is pretty easy to get, we protect our neighbors, stand your ground laws apply, conservative overall but nobody cares if you’re liberal as long as you don’t care if someone else isn’t. Don’t act like a d in general or be a bad neighbor, myob, respect people they respect you. Don’t freak out by target practice, deer hunting, big trucks, barking dogs, 4 wheelers, horses on roads, and don’t drive like you do in DC - you’ll likely kill your self or someone else driving old horse and buggy roads like that.

I live in Fauquier County and most of this applies here as well. One of the things we love most is that your political party affiliation isn’t a litmus test. Our neighbors are all Republicans and we trust all of them more than we ever did any of our neighbors in MoCo. We also enjoy the big dogs and trucks, and our local law enforcement and military friendly brewery. The police department and fire department showed up for back to school night as part of the community. You couldn’t pay me to move back to the inner suburbs of DC.

Honestly, it sounds like your political views are a litmus test, it's just that you have to be a Republican

And all the responses to this are exactly why I couldn’t get away from MoCo fast enough. Everything has to be a referendum on how liberal or progressive you are and if you aren’t in lock step with the liberal talking points you’re labeled a racist and told you must be MAGA.

DP. Exactly. We've had enough of this nonsense. I'd love to live in an area where politics aren't generally discussed - and if they are, it's with respect for the other person's opinion.

Must be nice being white and not having to worry about politics.

You only get to use this line once a thread :roll:

Truth hurts.

Race-baiters have to race-bait. Yawn.
DP

Cope hareder racist. I know you get scared around black people.

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"p.s. I heard the residents of Martha's Vineyard deported the migrants who recently arrived in about 48 hours to the Mass mainland. How "rich" is that. A community that swells to 100,000 in the summer can't handle an influx of 50 people."



1. The "people of Martha's Vineyard" did not deport anyone. The government of Mass moved the illegal immigrants to a military base which had the resources to care for them.

2.However, the "people of Martha's Vineyard" responded by donating money, clothing and food. They housed people in church basements.

3. There is absolutely zero affordable housing on Martha's Vineyard and absolutely no place for them to stay. The summer is over and jobs are disappearing.

4. The governors of Texas and Florida have hard hearts. They are not Christian in spirt. They are selfish, ambitious and mean in spirit. They may actually go to hell.

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Trump supporters are very thin skinned. Will the administrator delete this too?

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Anonymous wrote:My patient today at a K st. medical office commutes to her DC job from WV. Somehow.

I can't help but think that maybe less time seated on a bus / train / car every day would only help her hypertension

Thankfully there is medication for hypertension. - Family history of familial hypertension not related to weight

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in West Virginia as a closeted queer person. I can't imagine ever going back. What a horrible place to be LGBTQ. A surprising number of people from my graduating class became ministers.

there's a bit of a joke in my community group about how people who can't hack a real education and job end up as pastors. That's not to say that there aren't truly decent pastors who do it because they love Jesus and their fellow human beings, but having gone to various churches for 40+ years, I have seen more pastors who do it because they don't/can't do much else than those who truly do it because it's a calling. I have a distant family member who did just that. Failed at other things, so went to become a pastor even though I know exactly what kind of person he is.

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Anonymous wrote:I join the ranks of folks in this thread celebrating that they were able to move further out from DC/inner suburbs. I love it but it was only feasible with the Covid-related move to more telework.

Some of the small town stereotypes of nicer neighbors and smaller school have been a blessing for our family. Every family has to make their own decision.

People not being in your face about politics is also a plus further out.

p.s. I heard the residents of Martha's Vineyard deported the migrants who recently arrived in about 48 hours to the Mass mainland. How "rich" is that. A community that swells to 100,000 in the summer can't handle an influx of 50 people.

the only people I know who moved that far out wanted more land but couldn't afford it. WVA is, for the most part, dirt cheap.

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Anonymous wrote:"p.s. I heard the residents of Martha's Vineyard deported the migrants who recently arrived in about 48 hours to the Mass mainland. How "rich" is that. A community that swells to 100,000 in the summer can't handle an influx of 50 people."



1. The "people of Martha's Vineyard" did not deport anyone. The government of Mass moved the illegal immigrants to a military base which had the resources to care for them.

2.However, the "people of Martha's Vineyard" responded by donating money, clothing and food. They housed people in church basements.

3. There is absolutely zero affordable housing on Martha's Vineyard and absolutely no place for them to stay. The summer is over and jobs are disappearing.

4. The governors of Texas and Florida have hard hearts. They are not Christian in spirt. They are selfish, ambitious and mean in spirit. They may actually go to hell.

They aren't illegal immigrants.

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Anonymous wrote:"p.s. I heard the residents of Martha's Vineyard deported the migrants who recently arrived in about 48 hours to the Mass mainland. How "rich" is that. A community that swells to 100,000 in the summer can't handle an influx of 50 people."



1. The "people of Martha's Vineyard" did not deport anyone. The government of Mass moved the illegal immigrants to a military base which had the resources to care for them.

2.However, the "people of Martha's Vineyard" responded by donating money, clothing and food. They housed people in church basements.

3. There is absolutely zero affordable housing on Martha's Vineyard and absolutely no place for them to stay. The summer is over and jobs are disappearing.

4. The governors of Texas and Florida have hard hearts. They are not Christian in spirt. They are selfish, ambitious and mean in spirit. They may actually go to hell.

They aren't illegal immigrants.

Actually they are. That said, they must be treated like humans. They must be treated with dignity. They don't deserve to be treated like political pawns. Borders have to be respected. Trump Conservatives need to stop acting like there are no morals and there is no god. They will be punished.

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Anonymous wrote:"p.s. I heard the residents of Martha's Vineyard deported the migrants who recently arrived in about 48 hours to the Mass mainland. How "rich" is that. A community that swells to 100,000 in the summer can't handle an influx of 50 people."



1. The "people of Martha's Vineyard" did not deport anyone. The government of Mass moved the illegal immigrants to a military base which had the resources to care for them.

2.However, the "people of Martha's Vineyard" responded by donating money, clothing and food. They housed people in church basements.

3. There is absolutely zero affordable housing on Martha's Vineyard and absolutely no place for them to stay. The summer is over and jobs are disappearing.

4. The governors of Texas and Florida have hard hearts. They are not Christian in spirt. They are selfish, ambitious and mean in spirit. They may actually go to hell.

They aren't illegal immigrants.

If they were legal immigrants they would have come through the border at checkpoints. Trying to evade a checkpoint is, by definition, illegal.

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Anonymous wrote:I join the ranks of folks in this thread celebrating that they were able to move further out from DC/inner suburbs. I love it but it was only feasible with the Covid-related move to more telework.

Some of the small town stereotypes of nicer neighbors and smaller school have been a blessing for our family. Every family has to make their own decision.

People not being in your face about politics is also a plus further out.

p.s. I heard the residents of Martha's Vineyard deported the migrants who recently arrived in about 48 hours to the Mass mainland. How "rich" is that. A community that swells to 100,000 in the summer can't handle an influx of 50 people.

I've never in my life seen a DC rowhouse or Bethesda McCraftsman completely covered in hand-painted lunatic ravings about Trump being a literal demon or flying flags with a homoerotic photoshopped picture of Joe Biden. I certainly can't say the same about the opposite party "further out."

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Anonymous wrote:"p.s. I heard the residents of Martha's Vineyard deported the migrants who recently arrived in about 48 hours to the Mass mainland. How "rich" is that. A community that swells to 100,000 in the summer can't handle an influx of 50 people."



1. The "people of Martha's Vineyard" did not deport anyone. The government of Mass moved the illegal immigrants to a military base which had the resources to care for them.

2.However, the "people of Martha's Vineyard" responded by donating money, clothing and food. They housed people in church basements.

3. There is absolutely zero affordable housing on Martha's Vineyard and absolutely no place for them to stay. The summer is over and jobs are disappearing.

4. The governors of Texas and Florida have hard hearts. They are not Christian in spirt. They are selfish, ambitious and mean in spirit. They may actually go to hell.

They aren't illegal immigrants.

If they were legal immigrants they would have come through the border at checkpoints. Trying to evade a checkpoint is, by definition, illegal.

While they certainly may if they want to, asylum-seekers do not have to come through checkpoints. Crossing the border and applying for asylum is not, by definition, illegal as long as their asylum claim is legitimate. The refugees in Martha's Vineyard were legitimate refugees who had already begun the asylum process. You have literally no idea what you're talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:If you cannot commute from there to a downtown office daily in less than 45 minutes, then no. Most of the places you list also are not exurbs of DC.

LOL i can't get from my house inside the beltway to my downtown DC office in less than 45 minutes.

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Anonymous wrote:If you cannot commute from there to a downtown office daily in less than 45 minutes, then no. Most of the places you list also are not exurbs of DC.

LOL i can't get from my house inside the beltway to my downtown DC office in less than 45 minutes.

You can easily live within the District and not be able to make it to work in 45 minutes.

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Anonymous wrote:If you cannot commute from there to a downtown office daily in less than 45 minutes, then no. Most of the places you list also are not exurbs of DC.

LOL i can't get from my house inside the beltway to my downtown DC office in less than 45 minutes.

You can easily live within the District and not be able to make it to work in 45 minutes.

dp.. and imagine if everyone who works in DC tried to live in DC. There's probably not enough housing to house everyone who works in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:The panhandle will become a unique part of WV like northern virginia is to Virginia, it will eventually fade from being culturally similar to the rest of the state, racially, politically, industrially, etc.

Eventually? It’s been that way for 50 + years. We only got DC news growing up, except one Hagerstown station that has since moved to DC. People have commuted here to DC all my life. We took school field trips to DC and Baltimore at least 5 times growing up. The idea that you think this is new amuses me. It’s always been culturally similar to DC but still has WV ways. Don’t roll up in neighborhoods you don’t know anytime but especially after dark, neighbors watch out for neighbors, people open constitutional carry, concealed carry is pretty easy to get, we protect our neighbors, stand your ground laws apply, conservative overall but nobody cares if you’re liberal as long as you don’t care if someone else isn’t. Don’t act like a d in general or be a bad neighbor, myob, respect people they respect you. Don’t freak out by target practice, deer hunting, big trucks, barking dogs, 4 wheelers, horses on roads, and don’t drive like you do in DC - you’ll likely kill your self or someone else driving old horse and buggy roads like that.

I live in Fauquier County and most of this applies here as well. One of the things we love most is that your political party affiliation isn’t a litmus test. Our neighbors are all Republicans and we trust all of them more than we ever did any of our neighbors in MoCo. We also enjoy the big dogs and trucks, and our local law enforcement and military friendly brewery. The police department and fire department showed up for back to school night as part of the community. You couldn’t pay me to move back to the inner suburbs of DC.

Honestly, it sounds like your political views are a litmus test, it's just that you have to be a Republican

And all the responses to this are exactly why I couldn’t get away from MoCo fast enough. Everything has to be a referendum on how liberal or progressive you are and if you aren’t in lock step with the liberal talking points you’re labeled a racist and told you must be MAGA.

DP. Exactly. We've had enough of this nonsense. I'd love to live in an area where politics aren't generally discussed - and if they are, it's with respect for the other person's opinion.

Must be nice being white and not having to worry about politics.

You only get to use this line once a thread :roll:

Truth hurts.

Race-baiters have to race-bait. Yawn.
DP

Cope hareder racist. I know you get scared around black people.

:lol:
Says the dolt who said “WVA scares me!” And btw, I’m not white. Whine harder.