Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 09:15     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Calling it National Airport

+1


I’m not from there (was a transplant for 5 years). I call it National bc I’m old.


+1 but also because eff Ronald Reagan and the movement to name something after him in every state.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 09:13     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I live in the DMV.

Zero natives I know use this term, so hopefully this was posted as a mark of the opposite?


Yeah, that's more of something that people who moved here after college, but maybe have lived here for a while, use.

If you grew up here you're too old for it to feel natural, even though it's been around a while.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 09:13     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Calling it National Airport

+1


I’m not from there (was a transplant for 5 years). I call it National bc I’m old.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 09:11     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

Anonymous wrote:I live in the DMV.

Zero natives I know use this term, so hopefully this was posted as a mark of the opposite?
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 09:09     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Calling it National Airport

+1


+2.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 09:06     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

DMV
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 09:05     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

I live in the DMV.

Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 09:00     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

When I worked for DOJ in NYC, my friends and I would joke that we could identify the HQ people by their dowdy suits.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 09:00     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

Anonymous wrote:Calling it National Airport

+1
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 08:59     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

"I work in research"
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 08:58     Subject: Re:How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

NPR tote bag and comfortable shoes.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 08:57     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

They are stressing about Russian School of Math, AoPS, SATs, or getting into Ivies.

I went to a W school feeder for 7th grade and was asked to take the SATs that year by the JHU CTY program.

Then I moved away. I enjoyed the new location better. Being in MoCo for 1.25 school years left a mark. I came back after college for a job for 8 years but left to raise my kids elsewhere.

But I still like this site. And I about fell over when an actual educated in Russia immigrant brought Beast Academy materials to a parent meeting at my school district. I was the only one who knew what she had there.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 08:52     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

Calling it National Airport
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 08:52     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

when they say "I work for the government." and not in what capacity or department
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 08:51     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?

What are DC area traits/signs that make you realize someone is or isn't from here?