How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?

[Anonymous]

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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)

+100 The DC and Baltimore accents are absolutely nothing alike. Most transplants know nothing about DC but y'all always faking like you do...it's giving secondhand embarrassment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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…

This just makes you old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The DMV is the Department of Motor Vehicles, not the DC area.

Yes!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Still Calls Reagan airport national

Yep, I still do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You remember the Redskins Super Bowl win, call the the basketball team the Bullets and at some point a Kennedy either threw up on your or screwed your sister

winS

[Anonymous]

A native will watch and is a fan of the Washington football team.

[Anonymous]

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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”

Oh never. Nails on a chalkboard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The DMV is the Department of Motor Vehicles, not the DC area.

Yep, I can spot all of the non-natives on this thread. Natives do not use the phrase DMV to refer to this area.

I’m ashamed to admit that this word has creeped into my vocabulary. - native

crept. It crept into your vocabulary, because it is still happening.

[Anonymous]

Everyone calls “Reagan” National, National. That doesn’t make you a native.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The DMV is the Department of Motor Vehicles, not the DC area.

Yep, I can spot all of the non-natives on this thread. Natives do not use the phrase DMV to refer to this area.

Bingo.

This. A lot of the posters on this thread are actually outing themselves by trying to prove otherwise.

I think it depends on when you were born. I first heard DMV in about 1995, which means you could theoretically have people around 30 years old who grew up with this phrase.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a few other real natives have already mentioned, DMV = Dept. of Motor Vehicles. I'd like to know which moron is responsible for starting this trend, I can assure you they weren't born and raised here.

I first heard it from a Virginian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Still Calls Reagan airport national

And will forevermore!

[Anonymous]

Wtf is a heritage midwesterner?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
1. Everyone not from the DMV thinks you mumble when you talk, but you and your friends understand each other perfectly

2. you don't understand when people say they can buy a nice house for 250k

3. "5 miles" can mean a place is 20 min away or 1 hour and 20 minutes, depending on time of day

4. You remember when parking on the Mall was free

5. It is likely that you are a first generation DMV person, growing up in the area with parents from outside the area. However, you consider yourself a heritage Midwesterner. Although when you go back to Illinois for Thanksgiving, you don't quite understand how people can live in that winter, every winter.

6. What, the kids at your K-12 school didn't speak 43 languages at home?

7. At least 50% of your friends parents are lawyers, or were lawyers. They are universally miserable, and yet 50% of your friends are now lawyers, too. So much for all those high GPAs and test scores, some people never learn.

8. Snow is a beautiful thing that shuts down the whole world. No one should ever been expected to function when snow is falling, or could be reasonably expected to fall within the next 24 to 48 hours.

9. As an adult, the chance of running into friends from HS at the supermarket or whatever is infinitesimal, because everyone moves away (the Heritage Midwesterner often returns to the nest).

It should not be such a surprise, because you don't live there anymore, either.

10. It will always be National Airport

Totally with you on 7-10. I do have some high school friends here but most of my HS classmates (Sidwell) are elsewhere.

I'd add: When you meet someone local, the first question is about where you each went to high school. (I met someone last week, we are both over 50, and the first question he asked me was about where I went to high school).

Yup. And that alone would answer a lot of questions on the private school forum!

[Anonymous]

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.

What about those of us who trained our kids to say DC? As in, I live in Chevy Chase, MD, but go to school in DC.