Anonymous wrote:I cant stand all you transplants - your lingo is the dead give away. I don't know anyone actually from hear who over and over and over wants to talk about people from "the district" or "DC proper" versus "the burbs." nobody here uses these phrases that I've ever known.

We talk more like this:

I'm from the DC or I'm from the DC area. Really, me too - where did you go to high school? Oh, did you know ____? Where are you living now? Oh, blah blah blah.

We say "inside the beltway" or "outside the beltway." We never say "burbs."

We do sometimes say "exburbs" though, particularly for Loudoun County. Frederick is just "fredneck" or for some "Urbana." Howard is just Howard.

you sound very dull.

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Anonymous wrote:Not all of us choose to live here, there are many government and military positions based here and we simply have no choice but to suffer through it and pray for a better opportunity with the next assignment.

It probably isn't fair, but DCUM was the final confirmation for me that this area is a terrible place full of terrible, terrible people. The idea of having to raise my kids here ...

D.C. is NOT a destination, simply part of the journey.

Who was it that said (paraphrasing here): D.C.: a city of southern efficiency and northern charm. NAILED IT!

Part of the journey is to purchase $900k homes? I don't think so.

Did you just arrive? Welcome. It certainly has not always been $900. You must be a young one!

We are talking about transplants here And where are the $900 homes you speak of?

Anonymous wrote:I cant stand all you transplants - your lingo is the dead give away. I don't know anyone actually from hear who over and over and over wants to talk about people from "the district" or "DC proper" versus "the burbs." nobody here uses these phrases that I've ever known.

We talk more like this:

I'm from the DC or I'm from the DC area. Really, me too - where did you go to high school? Oh, did you know ____? Where are you living now? Oh, blah blah blah.

We say "inside the beltway" or "outside the beltway." We never say "burbs."

We do sometimes say "exburbs" though, particularly for Loudoun County. Frederick is just "fredneck" or for some "Urbana." Howard is just Howard.

x2. They should write this in a pamphlet for transplants to read so they all don't sound so goddam provincial and annoying.

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I cant stand all you transplants - your lingo is the dead give away. I don't know anyone actually from hear who over and over and over wants to talk about people from "the district" or "DC proper" versus "the burbs." nobody here uses these phrases that I've ever known.

We talk more like this:

I'm from the DC or I'm from the DC area. Really, me too - where did you go to high school? Oh, did you know ____? Where are you living now? Oh, blah blah blah.

We say "inside the beltway" or "outside the beltway." We never say "burbs."

We do sometimes say "exburbs" though, particularly for Loudoun County. Frederick is just "fredneck" or for some "Urbana." Howard is just Howard.

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Anonymous wrote:Not all of us choose to live here, there are many government and military positions based here and we simply have no choice but to suffer through it and pray for a better opportunity with the next assignment.

It probably isn't fair, but DCUM was the final confirmation for me that this area is a terrible place full of terrible, terrible people. The idea of having to raise my kids here ...

D.C. is NOT a destination, simply part of the journey.

Who was it that said (paraphrasing here): D.C.: a city of southern efficiency and northern charm. NAILED IT!

Part of the journey is to purchase $900k homes? I don't think so.

Did you just arrive? Welcome. It certainly has not always been $900. You must be a young one!

$900 for a home? I think you must be confusing DC with Pensatucky, my dear friend. Or maybe Missouri.

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Anonymous wrote:Am I a transplant? I've lived here since 1994. I'm 45. I sure feel like a native at this point.

This is me and I will never feel like a native. It blows here.

+1 Ever.

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Anonymous wrote:Not all of us choose to live here, there are many government and military positions based here and we simply have no choice but to suffer through it and pray for a better opportunity with the next assignment.

It probably isn't fair, but DCUM was the final confirmation for me that this area is a terrible place full of terrible, terrible people. The idea of having to raise my kids here ...

D.C. is NOT a destination, simply part of the journey.

Who was it that said (paraphrasing here): D.C.: a city of southern efficiency and northern charm. NAILED IT!

Part of the journey is to purchase $900k homes? I don't think so.

Did you just arrive? Welcome. It certainly has not always been $900. You must be a young one!

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Anonymous wrote:There are rich natives, middle class natives and poor natives.

I'm a middle class native who grew up in Brightwood and attended Calvin Coolidge HS. Attended and graduated from ODU and currently live in Brookland and work for the fed gov.

It's funny to me when transplants act as if they are captain save the neighborhood, when the neighborhoods I've lived in are middle class neighborhoods.

I'm 35 btw.

+10000

Any neighborhood, for that matter. Ridiculous. Change happens. Get over it.

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Anonymous wrote:Not all of us choose to live here, there are many government and military positions based here and we simply have no choice but to suffer through it and pray for a better opportunity with the next assignment.

It probably isn't fair, but DCUM was the final confirmation for me that this area is a terrible place full of terrible, terrible people. The idea of having to raise my kids here ...

D.C. is NOT a destination, simply part of the journey.

Who was it that said (paraphrasing here): D.C.: a city of southern efficiency and northern charm. NAILED IT!

Part of the journey is to purchase $900k homes? I don't think so.

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Anonymous wrote:There are rich natives, middle class natives and poor natives.

I'm a middle class native who grew up in Brightwood and attended Calvin Coolidge HS. Attended and graduated from ODU and currently live in Brookland and work for the fed gov.

It's funny to me when transplants act as if they are captain save the neighborhood, when the neighborhoods I've lived in are middle class neighborhoods.

I'm 35 btw.

Agreed. DC has always had really safe, nice neighborhoods.

Transplants just continue to show their cluelessness. It's funny that they like to act like DC hasn't been a thriving city for... oh... the last 200 years.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm from NYC and think everything about DC is inferior to NYC.

We do like the less stressful school system in VA. We like how our $500k+ income affords us a great lifestyle here. In Manhattan, anything less than $1 million and you will feel poor.

You're comparing Manhattan to NoVa? It's two completely different lifestyles.
Now if you said you have moved from Hoboken to NoVa it might start to get comparable.

Also, please go back to New York. We do so tire of all the NYers flooding the area. You spend a lot of time talking about how great NY is, but oddly you all never seem to return... weird.

Agreed. Sorry dear, you don't like in DC. You are a VIRGINIAN. Big difference.

Anonymous wrote:There are rich natives, middle class natives and poor natives.

I'm a middle class native who grew up in Brightwood and attended Calvin Coolidge HS. Attended and graduated from ODU and currently live in Brookland and work for the fed gov.

It's funny to me when transplants act as if they are captain save the neighborhood, when the neighborhoods I've lived in are middle class neighborhoods.

I'm 35 btw.

Hi NCS grad! I posted up thread about going to private school but not being rich. I grew up in DC and had a lot of privileges too. My mom and dad made a lot of sacrifices to send me to Stone Ridge. I think we took exactly one (maybe two) family vacations my whole childhood. I can count the number of times my parents bought new cars on one hand. I certainly didn't get a car for my 16th birthday (nor did I get my license), but I did grow up in a townhouse in Burleith. I was never going to really fit in with at least one core group. We couldn't afford to (and didn't want to) Go on skiing trips with other families. We didn't have a weekend house in Virginia horse country (!!!!!) I was undoubtedly privileged by not the socialite level of privilege some people seem to think all natives have.

But I wasn't in a minority at SR either. In the 80s and 90s there were a lot of girls whose parents were making even more sacrifices to send them to SR. I had classmates who had parents work at the school for the tuition break. Things aren't always how they look.

I live in he suburbs now. DH is an Army brat, nova native. He is as much a native as I am (they moved to and from the area as he was growing up). My mom grew up in Arlington and Falls Church, and went to W&L and Marshall. No one challenges her for being a native. This is a big area and to read these boards, you would think native status was only granted if you grew up in one quadrant of DC, Chevy Chase, or possibly Potomac.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, this is one of the silliest threads I've ever read on this board. Even "Three chicken legs and a whole lot of fries" is more informative . . .

Did that thread get deleted? I saw it and then minutes later didn't see, thought I had somehow imagined it lol!

Moved to the food/restaurants section . . .

Thanks!

I'm a native - grew up in Alexandria but came into the city all the time, school field trips and family outings as a kid and then as a teen going to RFK for the annual HFStival, getting first fake id at a video store on Georgetown near Commander Salamander, first piercing at jinx proof, using fake id at Trax and Buzz before Nats Park was around...

My native experience is vastly different than some of those monied, legacy folks. I think the transplants have helped DC improve - some argue against gentrification and its effects but I like how nice DC is - no more murder capital and crack epidemic

LOL. I still have mine. I believe it was on O St. I pulled it out for my best friend, because we went together when we were 15 to get them. We just talked about it like a year or two ago. I also remember many HFStivals at RFK and Trax.

OMG. This brought back so many memories. I forgot all about Georgetown being the only place to get fake IDs, right near Commander Salamander. I was too chicken to actually go through with it and ended up giving money to a friend who came back with our fakes, but just the vibe of Georgetown, before gentrification... it was a much wilder place.

I was sad reading this thread before I got to these comments. I grew up in Dc proper and I went to NCS. So yes, a private school edu, but I can tell you I did not AT ALL fit in with the girls there. I was "poor" by their standards, and boy did they remind me of it. I was happy to catch the bus to Georgetown and hang out with other kids . I spent a lot of time at Commander Salamander, Georgetown Cafe, and Cafe Northwest. If I was lucky I would get my parent's astro van and head over to the Pitts motor hotel by Meridian Park to hang out with my friends behind the bullet proof glass in the lobby drinking NeHit and eating some sort of combo of "friend chicken" and "Chinese food."