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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Native here.  DC transplants to me seem unnaturally enthused with the city.  I am 27 and when people find out I grew up here I get a lot "Wow!!!!  Really?!!  I can't imagine having grown up in DC!!  OMG!"

I always kind of have to hold back laughter because it just seems so absurd to me.

I think many of the transplants see DC as some sort of Gotham/metropolis, which i can understand, since many came from small towns.  But having grown up here, DC really feels like a small town to me, in many ways, so I don't understand the shock at people imagining kids growing up here.[/quote]

Really? Most of the transplants I know see DC as a small town with a correspondingly small number of natives--hence the surprise.[/quote]

NP.  I too have gotten a lot of surprise, that seems to be based off of DC as a "metropolis", as PP described.

Like "Wasn't it weird growing up here?  Did you live in an apartment or have your own house?  Where did you go to play outside?"

Those kinds of questions. [/quote]

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