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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My working-class grandparents moved the family out to Great Falls in 1962 because it was the only place they could afford a big enough house for the family at the time.  They were originally from Falls Church but had been priced out.  Yup, even in 1962 that was a thing.  It was the middle-of-nowhere back then, surrounded by dairy farms, and Tysons Corner still was a tiny rural outpost.

In general, there used to be a lot more working class whites until the 80s, and some not-so-great white areas.  Pimmit Hills had a really bad rap back then.  The Pagans motorcycle gang was based there.  Lots of rednecks.  Manassas was considered hick country, very redneck.  Lorton was pretty similar.  Arlington wasn't redneck but was  kind of dumpy (okay, maybe it still is).  McLean was always a nice area.

Accents...there definitely is/was one here, a lot of my relatives have one.  The transplants don't have it but it's definitely still around.  I'd call it a faint southern accent though not particularly twangy and with some Appalachian thrown in.  It's kind of hard to describe.  My grandparents said Warshington/warsh but they didn't have that sort of genteel Richmond accent either.[/quote]

I lived in Pimmit Hills in the early 90’s after college in a house with some college friends.  It was working class and mostly white and the “Pagan”reputation was still a thing.  Our rent was $875 for a 875 square foot house.  3 bedrooms and 1 bath.  I think the lot was 1/3 acre.  I think homes in iPimmit sold for $140-$150K in the 90’s.  Should have bought one…[/quote]

I avoided Pimmit Hills for many years because of the incident where the boy got chased from Pimmit Hills and killed in the parking lot at Marshall.  When I finally decided to see what it looked like, I realized it was just a regular neighborhood of smaller houses.  Of course many have since been torn down and replaced with larger houses.  [/quote]

Greg Garcia is from Arlington, and Pimmit Hills was the model for the town in which his "My Name is Earl" tv show was set.[/quote]

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