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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC Native also. Arlington actually, but when I was growing up (80s) DC Native meant the DC area. Because with the exception of the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor, no one raised a kid in DC proper. If you were a middle class white kid from Dc you could be from Bethesda, Annandale, Alexandria, Silver Spring etc.

My wife is a DC native also, hailing from Potomac.

That's the thing about a lot of the annoying newcomers. They think you have to have been raised on 14th street to be  a native. No one lived on 14th street in the 80s I tell them and they look at me like I'm crazy.[/quote]

I mean no, some of us grew up in DC in the 80s/90s and  didn’t fit that mold. Definitely fewer than now, for sure, though.

And we got annoyed as hell when people from Potomac or Arlington said they are “from DC”!  :lol: [/quote]

Haha. Thank you for the response. I am another DC native who grew up in the District in the 80's and *gasp* EOTP!  We did indeed, and still do get annoyed. PP may want to think about the way she phrase her experience.  Saying "no one lived on 14th St" is a dead giveaway you are NOT a native. [/quote]

NP, but were there many people who lived on 14th St?  There were lots of people that lived EOTR, near RFK, near Catholic, Trinidad, etc, and that huge public housing complex near where Nats stadium is now....but my memory is that 14th St had a couple dive bars, a bunch of empty lots/buildings, and there was a very active drug territory war happening on 14th st.  I don’t think of it as being very residential, at least south of Columbia Heights, which is why it was relatively easy for the while foods to move in followed by the gentrifiers.  But maybe I’m misremembering.  [/quote]

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