Anonymous
04/11/2025 10:48
Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Anonymous wrote:When I worked for DOJ in NYC, my friends and I would joke that we could identify the HQ people by their dowdy suits.
Haha. You’re not wrong.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 10:47
Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Stand on the right, walk on the left on all escalators everywhere.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 10:45
Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
born at Sibley or Women's Hospital
Anonymous
04/11/2025 10:44
Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Anonymous wrote:Calling it National Airport
I take this to mean that someone is either from here or has lived here long enough to recall when it was National.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 10:42
Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Anonymous wrote:"I work in research"
??? DH and I are scientists from Europe. We work in research. Most researchers are foreign-born, did you know that? The US, until now, needed more brains than it grew domestically. It used to be called the brain drain: talented scientists from all over the world coming to work in the US.
Now, who knows what's going to happen, but to your point: it doesn't make sense.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 10:39
Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Anonymous wrote:A lot of their clothing has logos visible, They want you to know their clothing or accessories are "designer." That was one thing that really struck me when I moved here, an my relatives who were born here are really into that sort of thing.
They love to argue and "be right." Must be from going to school with so many lawyers kids or something. On the whole I find fellow white people who were born her really type A and insufferable.
Where do you live? I feel like this area is not into fashion or logos AT ALL. I grew up in a well-off area of FL and it was so much more intense there.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 10:27
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?
+1. It's a stupid thing used by young blacks.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 10:11
Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
A lot of their clothing has logos visible, They want you to know their clothing or accessories are "designer." That was one thing that really struck me when I moved here, an my relatives who were born here are really into that sort of thing.
They love to argue and "be right." Must be from going to school with so many lawyers kids or something. On the whole I find fellow white people who were born her really type A and insufferable.
They love to argue and "be right." Must be from going to school with so many lawyers kids or something. On the whole I find fellow white people who were born her really type A and insufferable.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 10:07
Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
I am born and raised inside the beltway. In VA, Md and DC. I always say DMV. I'm early 40s.
I'm 40 and remember the term first appearing on area radio stations when I was a young adult. Raised in MD and VA (but not born here).
Anonymous
04/11/2025 10:00
Subject: Re:How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
They can locate Canada and Mexico on a map.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 09:37
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?
Lifelong resident of Washington, DC here. Anyone who answers that they live in the "DMV" is trying to hide the fact that they live in some far-flung areas of MD or VA. For longtime residents of DC, the acroynm DMV means the Department of Motor Vehicles. a place that you dread having to visit.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 09:34
Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Anonymous wrote: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.
Ruined a perfectly good small airport. I wonder what they will name after Trump. Is there anything left to clean up at Hanford?
Anonymous
04/11/2025 09:22
Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
We go bezerk when A holes drive 5 to 15 mph UNDER the speed limit on one lane roads during rush hour. Driving the speed limit or 5mph above during morning rush is the expectation. If youre scared or timid driving in rush hour here, pls, I implore you, take public transportation.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 09:19
Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Anonymous wrote: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.
IME, most people who are from here do not have strong feelings on what you call the area. Its the transplants who put so much emphasis on what you call the area, whether you live "in" DC or MD/VA, what each town/neighborhood/etc. is called--it's exhausting. Those of us who are from here just call it what we call it. But DMV is definitely a transplant thing.
Anonymous
04/11/2025 09:16
Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Anonymous wrote: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.
I am born and raised inside the beltway. In VA, Md and DC. I always say DMV. I'm early 40s.