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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am I a transplant?  I've lived here since 1994.  I'm 45.  I sure feel like a native at this point.[/quote]

Yes, you are a transplant. If you can't answer "where did you go to school?", then you are a transplant. [/quote]

Transplant here, currently engaged to a Native.
I strongly agree, that school identity is a key distinguishing feature among my Native friends. Typical conversation: "Oh, do you know Tim?" "No - which high school did he go to?" "Oh, he went WJ, he ran around with James and the lacrosse guys." "Oh wow, small world!" 
Even if you've lived here for 25 years as an adult, you're still a Transplant.

The Natives really stick together. They all grew up in the same neighborhood, attended the same schools, do favors for each other in business and real estate, socialize together (same country clubs, swim clubs, BBQs, etc.) and are raising kids together.

The only way to truly break in to their inner circle is to marry into it. The Natives I met through my fiancee are very lovely, kind, and genuine people. Many of them come from Old Money. Lots of business owners among the Natives. Lots of connections into the highest reaches of Federal government (usually through parents and close family friends).[/quote]

I think you might be talking about suburbanites?   Isn't "WJ" a high school in Bethesda?    That is in no way analogous to growing up in the Marion Barry D.C.of the 70s-early 90s[/quote]

NP.  Kids in the close in suburbs, particularly the wealthy ones, socialized with the DC private school kids all the time.  It's more analogous to a kid from St Albans hanging out with a girl from Stone Ridge- they may not be both in "DC proper" but they often run in similar circles and have similar socio economic backgrounds.  I think that's what she was referencing. [/quote]

Yes, this. Lots of bleed-over between Upper NW, Bethesda/CC, and Potomac kids. Lots of them continue to run in the same social circles and live in the same general area. They all spend lots of time running around DC and catching shows downtown in their youth.[/quote]

Yep.[/quote]

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