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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The funny thing is that when I'm in NYC or California and tell people I live with my family "in DC" they proactively try to rib me: "Oh like actually DC, or really the suburbs in MD or VA?"

So it's known thing to others outside this region that folks try to pass themselves off as "from DC" when they actually live in a nice suburb.

Of course, I tell them we own a rowhouse in Georgetown and that shuts them up pretty quickly.[/quote]

This is so dumb.  People do this for every city. You DC people think you’re something special.  You’re not.  
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I lived in NYC for 10 years and now DC for 14 years. No one ever challenged me when I said I lived in NYC. There's like 9 million people who actually live in NYC, so its not far fetched.

But I've been questioned/ribbed more times than I can count by people in other areas of the country - or even by Europeans! - whether I truly "live in DC." They assumed I was lying and instead lived in a suburb. They were surprised when I told them that we live with our kids in DC. And that my wife was born in DC.

So yeah, there's definitely a wide stereotype about living in DC when in truth they live in the MD or VA suburbs. And many parts of MD or NoVA are now straight up "urban" due to density increases in the past 15 years. [/quote]

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