Anonymous
04/13/2024 08:04
Subject: Transplant vs native
Anonymous wrote:How long before a transplant acclimates? I call the airport National.Anonymous wrote:In DC. How do you tell them apart? What sticks out?
Before smart phones, there was an article in the Post about 8 secret ways to get around DC and I knew all but one of them. That made me feel like a local, but I’m not. I just read and studied the ADC maps. I came in 1987 for a one year internship.
I always tell my transplant friends they're honorary DC natives if they stay here past 2 presidential election cycles
Anonymous
04/13/2024 08:02
Subject: Transplant vs native
Anonymous wrote:I think that is more generational. We used to call it NCA, but I don’t hear that anymore.Anonymous wrote:The DMV is the Department of Motor Vehicles. Any other use indicates transplant.
We called it MVA
Anonymous
04/13/2024 08:01
Subject: Transplant vs native
Natives understand "which hospital?"
Anonymous
04/13/2024 08:00
Subject: Transplant vs native
Anonymous wrote:How long before a transplant acclimates? I call the airport National.Anonymous wrote:In DC. How do you tell them apart? What sticks out?
Before smart phones, there was an article in the Post about 8 secret ways to get around DC and I knew all but one of them. That made me feel like a local, but I’m not. I just read and studied the ADC maps. I came in 1987 for a one year internship.
Never. You weren't here during your formative years.
Anonymous
04/13/2024 07:55
Subject: Transplant vs native
How long before a transplant acclimates? I call the airport National.Anonymous wrote:In DC. How do you tell them apart? What sticks out?
Before smart phones, there was an article in the Post about 8 secret ways to get around DC and I knew all but one of them. That made me feel like a local, but I’m not. I just read and studied the ADC maps. I came in 1987 for a one year internship.
Anonymous
04/13/2024 07:50
Subject: Transplant vs native
I think that is more generational. We used to call it NCA, but I don’t hear that anymore.Anonymous wrote:The DMV is the Department of Motor Vehicles. Any other use indicates transplant.
Anonymous
04/13/2024 07:44
Subject: Transplant vs native
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The DMV is the Department of Motor Vehicles. Any other use indicates transplant.
Except I can tell also tell you’re not a native (to Maryland) if you call the place where you get your driver’s license and tags “the DMV”. Because it’s not called that in Maryland and no one who grew up up here calls it that.
That’s not true, I grew up here and I call it that. I feel like it WAS called that when I went there to get my license? I don’t care, I still call it that.
Anonymous
04/13/2024 07:43
Subject: Transplant vs native
This is even more stupid and boring than arguing about native plants.
Anonymous
04/13/2024 07:37
Subject: Transplant vs native
Anonymous wrote:The DMV is the Department of Motor Vehicles. Any other use indicates transplant.
Except I can tell also tell you’re not a native (to Maryland) if you call the place where you get your driver’s license and tags “the DMV”. Because it’s not called that in Maryland and no one who grew up up here calls it that.
Anonymous
04/13/2024 06:04
Subject: Transplant vs native
People who move here from NYC/NJ bring a sort of...energy and attitude I recognize right away. Regional accents give transplants away, fir the most part.
Anonymous
04/13/2024 06:00
Subject: Transplant vs native
This argument always cracks me up. As if being a native is some sort of flex. It just isn’t
Anonymous
04/13/2024 05:59
Subject: Transplant vs native
Anonymous wrote:In DC. How do you tell them apart? What sticks out?
They ask questions like this.
Anonymous
04/13/2024 05:57
Subject: Transplant vs native
Also, it's National Airport to Natives. Not "Reagan."
Anonymous
04/13/2024 05:56
Subject: Transplant vs native
The DMV is the Department of Motor Vehicles. Any other use indicates transplant.
Anonymous
04/12/2024 21:37
Subject: Transplant vs native
In DC. How do you tell them apart? What sticks out?