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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Transplants are nothing but a bunch government leechers who relocated/moved here for the sole purpose of leeching off of the local economy.[/quote]

That's the spirit!  Way to be grateful to people who revived your piss poor region.  Because we all need to live in outhouses, like you do?  Really?  Tell me more.

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Revived our piss poor region?

You seriously think there was nothing here before you arrived and blessed us with your CVS, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Panera, Cupcakes, WalMart, Target, Best Buy... cookie cutter blandness?[/quote]

Out of curiosity PP, what neighborhood in DC did you grow up in, and where do you live now?    What stores do you shop at, and what do you do for entertainment?[/quote]

NP.  Why the forth degree?  Just curious...[/quote]

Because my guess is that the poster to whom I directed that question grew up in Dumfries or some lame suburb and now lives in an even further-out exurb.   This would explain their insistence that all of "new DC" is CVS, Starbucks, Whole Foods, etc. - they are referring to their subdivision, not the actual city that exists all around us today.[/quote]

Dumbest post in the thread and that's saying a lot[/quote]

No - the dumbest posts are those that assume that

1.  Transplants are somehow objectively worse than natives because they call it "the DMV" instead of "Washington", or pronounce it "Glow-ver" instead of "GLuh-ver"
2.   Or assume that somehow, CVS is qualitatively different than People's drug, and that a city with a CVS is objectively worse than a People's drug.   Who cares?  They are both chain stores.

I started out this thread being sympathetic to DC natives, especially since I am married to one.  [b] I now realize that the representations of DC natives on this thread are a bunch of ignorant fools.  Most of them are so hung up on living in the past that they have no idea what is going on in their city today.  [/b] [/quote]

+1000

I also realize that DC natives stand up for the wrong things, have no commons sense, and waste their time on the wrong issues.  So there is that.  Thanks for enlightening me, DC natives!

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+1,000,000.

Obviously not all DC natives share those characteristics, as I know many quite impressive folks born here, but on average quality is growing leaps and bounds.[/quote]

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