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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is knowing what is inside and what is outside the loops.  You have to know landmarks and whether they are inside or outside. [/quote]
What?  If you're  driving and DC is on your right then you're on the inner loop. If the suburbs are on your right then its the outerloop. In the US we drive on the right side so the thing you are driving around is on your right if you're going clockwise or left if you're going counterclockwise. [/quote]

When you are driving how would you know which side DC is on?  You would have to know landmarks and whether they are inside or outside the beltway. [/quote]

I seriously don’t get the posters acting indignant about people not knowing when DC is on the right or left.

Sure, it’s obvious if you’re looking at a flat map, but it’s not easy to tell when you’re driving. [/quote]
OMG seriously?? This is hopeless....[/quote]

Help me help you. What’s got you worked up about my response?[/quote]

NP. I wonder if that poster thinks everyone thinks with a picture of a map in their head. I have much of the local/NOVA map memorized and think about which roads/places are on which sides of me, but I have the impression there are a lot of other people who don't work this way. I'm always saying to my husband this road is N/E/S/W of that road or you know this is on that side of that and he has no clue. He can read a map and follows verbal directions way better than I do, but he drives by landmarks and having driven the same route before. If we to somewhere new in a roundabout way (like stopping other places first), he has no idea how to get home a more direct way because he doesn't really know where he is in relation to everything else. He only knows how he got there.

You certainly can't see DC the way you can see a restaurant or school.[/quote]

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