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 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 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 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 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling it National Airport

+1

+2.

DMV

I live in the DMV.

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 wrote:Calling it National Airport

+1

"I work in research"

NPR tote bag and comfortable shoes.

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.

Calling it National Airport

when they say "I work for the government." and not in what capacity or department

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