Why does Annapolis not have the Baltimore nor Chesapeake Bay “Hoi Toider” accent ?

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Anonymous wrote:Annapolis definitely feels blue collar and redneck, don’t know what you guys are taking about. About 50% of the people you’ll see there have tattoos, the food scene is 90% bar and pub food, there are no high end/sophistic restaurants, and it feels like a rustic town from the south.

Huh??? Have we been to the same Annapolis?

Your description sounds more like Odenton and Glen Burnie.

Yes, I’ve lived in Annapolis, and I’m born and raised in Bethesda. I’ve also lived around much of the US and even outside of it. Annapolis is not all multi-million dollar waterfront homes on the Severn River. Much of it is working-class and middle-class, and there’s a bunch of public housing within the city. Highland Beach and Parole have a lot of working-class rednecks. It’s not the rich la-la-la land you all wish it was, it’s like any other super segregated city from the south. Also, in my experience, the white people in Annapolis are way more racist and Trumpy than white people in Odenton, who are way more progressive. There is nothing high end about downtown Annapolis at all. It’s just a bunch of bars, pubs, grungy coffee shops like Rise Up. Anything fancy in Annapolis looks stuck in 2005, like Carpaccio.

Odenton and Crofton are far more cosmopolitan than Annapolis ever will be. The only “diversity” in Annapolis is Black and Hispanic people living in public housing. Both Odenton and Crofton blow Annapolis out of the water when it comes to the percentage of college educated residents. Diversity in Crofton and Odenton includes Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Muslim, and Indian families. They have the highest percentage of foreign born families in all of AA County. The horrible/garbage public schools in Annapolis would never attract those families in a million years. Not even wealthy people in Annapolis want anything to do with those schools.

This is not cosmopolitan. Lots of people from collectivist, low-trust nations, and just a few nations at that (India, El Salvador, Nigeria, and a few others), not "diverse" at all. These immigrants are doing well for their families here, achieving their wildest dreams, but are they civic-minded, proponents of western liberalism (not political liberalism but liberalism meaning the political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property, and equality before the law), instead of racism, classicism, or caste-ism? Yes, these immigrants can have their perspective on what neighborhoods are attractive to them, but their definition of attractive, don't assume that non-immigrants, those of us whose families have been here for centuries, share the same values. Some of us may not want to live around people who are brand spanking new to American values, and who we are not sure take to heart American values.

You're not allowed to say that. We are supposed to embrace all immigrants even if they come here with no intention of assimilating into or contributing to their new homes. Even if they bring their sharia law, their own racism etc. etc. etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Annapolis definitely feels blue collar and redneck, don’t know what you guys are taking about. About 50% of the people you’ll see there have tattoos, the food scene is 90% bar and pub food, there are no high end/sophistic restaurants, and it feels like a rustic town from the south.

Huh??? Have we been to the same Annapolis?

Your description sounds more like Odenton and Glen Burnie.

Yes, I’ve lived in Annapolis, and I’m born and raised in Bethesda. I’ve also lived around much of the US and even outside of it. Annapolis is not all multi-million dollar waterfront homes on the Severn River. Much of it is working-class and middle-class, and there’s a bunch of public housing within the city. Highland Beach and Parole have a lot of working-class rednecks. It’s not the rich la-la-la land you all wish it was, it’s like any other super segregated city from the south. Also, in my experience, the white people in Annapolis are way more racist and Trumpy than white people in Odenton, who are way more progressive. There is nothing high end about downtown Annapolis at all. It’s just a bunch of bars, pubs, grungy coffee shops like Rise Up. Anything fancy in Annapolis looks stuck in 2005, like Carpaccio.

Odenton and Crofton are far more cosmopolitan than Annapolis ever will be. The only “diversity” in Annapolis is Black and Hispanic people living in public housing. Both Odenton and Crofton blow Annapolis out of the water when it comes to the percentage of college educated residents. Diversity in Crofton and Odenton includes Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Muslim, and Indian families. They have the highest percentage of foreign born families in all of AA County. The horrible/garbage public schools in Annapolis would never attract those families in a million years. Not even wealthy people in Annapolis want anything to do with those schools.

Odenton, Crofton and cosmopolitan. That’s the first time I’ve seen those words in a sentence together.

Big night in Odenton is getting a chicken box at Royal Farms and finishing the night with some cold ones at Buck Murphy’s.

A “big night out” in Annapolis usually means dragging your husband who’s now shaped like a retired lacrosse ball into the same boat shoes, salmon shorts, and off-brand Vineyard Vines button-down you panic-bought at Marshalls during the Obama administration. You’ll make a reservation at Dock Street Bar & Grill, because apparently nothing says “coastal charm” like bland crab dip and a 50/50 chance of food poisoning, while a local rock band made up entirely of guys who peaked playing Battle of the Bands before dropping out of Broadneck butchers a Dave Matthews cover in the corner. Then comes the highlight: swaying in a sweaty crowd of sunburnt Edgewater rednecks and Calvert County day-drinkers, surrounded by Anne Arundel’s “elite”: people whose resumes peak with an associate’s degree from AACC or a marketing diploma from Salisbury and who now live in their parents’ basements, proudly insisting they “just love the Annapolis lifestyle.” Annapolis is a place where ambition goes to die quietly between $3 rail drinks, and the only thing more bloated than the crowd’s livers are their delusions that this is somehow “upscale living.”

Intimately familiar with this lifestyle. Ex must have been a bro Lax guy.

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My nomination for best thread of 2025

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Anonymous wrote:My nomination for best thread of 2025

Sad.

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Anonymous wrote:My nomination for best thread of 2025

Sad.

What is your nomination?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Annapolis definitely feels blue collar and redneck, don’t know what you guys are taking about. About 50% of the people you’ll see there have tattoos, the food scene is 90% bar and pub food, there are no high end/sophistic restaurants, and it feels like a rustic town from the south.

Huh??? Have we been to the same Annapolis?

Your description sounds more like Odenton and Glen Burnie.

Yes, I’ve lived in Annapolis, and I’m born and raised in Bethesda. I’ve also lived around much of the US and even outside of it. Annapolis is not all multi-million dollar waterfront homes on the Severn River. Much of it is working-class and middle-class, and there’s a bunch of public housing within the city. Highland Beach and Parole have a lot of working-class rednecks. It’s not the rich la-la-la land you all wish it was, it’s like any other super segregated city from the south. Also, in my experience, the white people in Annapolis are way more racist and Trumpy than white people in Odenton, who are way more progressive. There is nothing high end about downtown Annapolis at all. It’s just a bunch of bars, pubs, grungy coffee shops like Rise Up. Anything fancy in Annapolis looks stuck in 2005, like Carpaccio.

Odenton and Crofton are far more cosmopolitan than Annapolis ever will be. The only “diversity” in Annapolis is Black and Hispanic people living in public housing. Both Odenton and Crofton blow Annapolis out of the water when it comes to the percentage of college educated residents. Diversity in Crofton and Odenton includes Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Muslim, and Indian families. They have the highest percentage of foreign born families in all of AA County. The horrible/garbage public schools in Annapolis would never attract those families in a million years. Not even wealthy people in Annapolis want anything to do with those schools.

Odenton, Crofton and cosmopolitan. That’s the first time I’ve seen those words in a sentence together.

Big night in Odenton is getting a chicken box at Royal Farms and finishing the night with some cold ones at Buck Murphy’s.

A “big night out” in Annapolis usually means dragging your husband who’s now shaped like a retired lacrosse ball into the same boat shoes, salmon shorts, and off-brand Vineyard Vines button-down you panic-bought at Marshalls during the Obama administration. You’ll make a reservation at Dock Street Bar & Grill, because apparently nothing says “coastal charm” like bland crab dip and a 50/50 chance of food poisoning, while a local rock band made up entirely of guys who peaked playing Battle of the Bands before dropping out of Broadneck butchers a Dave Matthews cover in the corner. Then comes the highlight: swaying in a sweaty crowd of sunburnt Edgewater rednecks and Calvert County day-drinkers, surrounded by Anne Arundel’s “elite”: people whose resumes peak with an associate’s degree from AACC or a marketing diploma from Salisbury and who now live in their parents’ basements, proudly insisting they “just love the Annapolis lifestyle.” Annapolis is a place where ambition goes to die quietly between $3 rail drinks, and the only thing more bloated than the crowd’s livers are their delusions that this is somehow “upscale living.”

Intimately familiar with this lifestyle. Ex must have been a bro Lax guy.

Very intimate.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever Annapolis lacks in dialect, Glen Burnie, Pasadena (AKA Dirty ‘Dena), Odenton, Gambrills, Crownsville, Edge”Wooder” and others more than compensate.

Buck Murphy’s, in Odenton, has some of that good ‘ole boy Anne Arundel Canny charm.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever Annapolis lacks in dialect, Glen Burnie, Pasadena (AKA Dirty ‘Dena), Odenton, Gambrills, Crownsville, Edge”Wooder” and others more than compensate.

Sorry, no. Odenton and Gambrills aren't lumped into this group, people in this area don't "warsh their clothes in the wooder."

Odenton, AKA “Odorton,” spelled backwards is “Noten a’ do,” definitely has some Bawlmoreese going on. There is also some redneck, Obama hatin’, crab pick in’ rednecks. You can’t be that close to Glen Burnie and escape it. It’s definitely a weird mix, kind of like Waldorf. You have the natives, lots of fed and military transplants and lots of people who have fled cities for the suburban life.

That part of AACO reads more PG County to me. It’s where the white flight occurred for those who didn’t want to move down to Calvert or Charles County. If you were white and grew up in Bowie, you really “made it” if you moved to Odenton/Crofton.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever Annapolis lacks in dialect, Glen Burnie, Pasadena (AKA Dirty ‘Dena), Odenton, Gambrills, Crownsville, Edge”Wooder” and others more than compensate.

Sorry, no. Odenton and Gambrills aren't lumped into this group, people in this area don't "warsh their clothes in the wooder."

Odenton, AKA “Odorton,” spelled backwards is “Noten a’ do,” definitely has some Bawlmoreese going on. There is also some redneck, Obama hatin’, crab pick in’ rednecks. You can’t be that close to Glen Burnie and escape it. It’s definitely a weird mix, kind of like Waldorf. You have the natives, lots of fed and military transplants and lots of people who have fled cities for the suburban life.

That part of AACO reads more PG County to me. It’s where the white flight occurred for those who didn’t want to move down to Calvert or Charles County. If you were white and grew up in Bowie, you really “made it” if you moved to Odenton/Crofton.

Odenton has changed, but lots of it is very insular. I’ve met natives from Odenton and Glen Burnie who couldn’t locate Montgomery County on a map and have barely heard of Bethesda and Silver Spring. If it doesn’t involve the Ravens/Orioles, crabs, beer and MAGA it’s out of their purview.

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Historic Annapolis is so beautiful and I don't understand why it isn't more like Charleston. There's no good restaurants or retail. Never figured it out.

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Anonymous wrote:Historic Annapolis is so beautiful and I don't understand why it isn't more like Charleston. There's no good restaurants or retail. Never figured it out.

Annapolis needs a Bubba Gump’s restaurant

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Anonymous wrote:Historic Annapolis is so beautiful and I don't understand why it isn't more like Charleston. There's no good restaurants or retail. Never figured it out.

Who runs the state and city…? There’s your answer.

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Anonymous wrote:Historic Annapolis is so beautiful and I don't understand why it isn't more like Charleston. There's no good restaurants or retail. Never figured it out.

They don't want tourism.

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Because they are wealthy. Have you not noticed that the wealthy generally don’t have the strong accents in our cities like NY?

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Anonymous wrote:Historic Annapolis is so beautiful and I don't understand why it isn't more like Charleston. There's no good restaurants or retail. Never figured it out.

They don't want tourism.

Is that why there is so little parking in Annapolis?