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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]
In all fairness, 14th St. was the heart of DC's red light district in the 80's.  Large stretches of both 14th and U St were still boarded up and vacant from the '68 riots until the mid 90's.  
Signed, someone who grew up in PG, listening to Go-go and WPGC.  I will squirt you in the eye with mumbo sauce if you think I'm not DC enough.[/quote]

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