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Oh--and no one who is actually from here or a member of Congressional Country Club calls it Congo.[/quote]

I know you are going to think I'm a troll...or clueless...but I'm neither. I'm a member at Congo and have been since I was 10 and everyone in my family calls in Congo. So, at least on this small point, you are wrong.[/quote]

I don't think you are a troll and if that is what it is called these days, I think it is new phenomenon and maybe it is only used by certain members.  I talked with some folks who are members yesterday because I had see this Congo thing and wanted to know if it was real.  They had never heard of it.  So, I may be wrong --look DCUM--someone admitting they are wrong--but I truly had never heard of it and I have lived in the area forever and been there quite a few times.

Anyway, it was not the real point of my posting.  My main point was that too many people on this forum--the real estate forum in particular--seem to act like real estate is what defines people.  Having lived here forever, it doesn't.  There are rich people in houses that are very modest.  There are people up to their eyeballs in debt in huge houses driving ritzy cars.  There are tons of kids at the "best" schools who struggle and have to move to private school to get a quality education while other kids do just fine and excel in the very same public school.  Tons of kids excel at some of the "other" public schools.   I really do believe that most people who come here from other places were superstars back home and come here and find out that they are just run of the mill.  They talk about how competitive it is here and it is very competitive but it is now kind of something people brag about--"Oh, the Washington Area is so competitive. It wasn't like this where I came from."  Then those same people do all the things that make people think it is so competitive.  It is, I guess, and where I grew up I guess it always was but it was just not something people were so focused on.  And I never heard my parents or others talk down about people who lived in more modest neighborhoods or make snide comments about people who moved to more wealthy areas.  This forum really brings out the worst in people and there is so much nastiness.  [/quote]

I grew up here, and I agree 100%.

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I grew up here too, and I also agree with you.  Anone remember when Tysons I was just one level, there was no Tysons II, and across the street from Tysons on Rt. 7 (where the ritzy shops are now), there were the Kmart and the Chesapeake Bay Seafood House?  Man, I miss the Chesapeake Bay Seafood House.   :cry:[/quote]

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