Anonymous
10/08/2023 11:44
Subject: How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The black DC natives got gentrified out to PG County and the white DC natives moved to Gaithersburg or Olney.
Not gentrified. They chose to go for new single family homes with larger yards. Suburbs, baby!
Because they were priced out of DC. My Auntie in DC owned a townhouse near rock creek in the 80's. She wanted to keep it because it was huge and as big as the SFH she bought in Maryland. She moved there because of severe damage to the TH.
Wait, I’m confused. So are you’re saying your auntie was priced out of owning TWO homes? Or are you saying that she sold her row house for a nice profit and bought a big SFH in MD because she didn’t want to do repairs on her own home.
DP: I won’t try to speak for the PP. I do want to point out that what people like you insist upon calling “a nice profit” is rarely if ever enough to buy another home in our original neighborhoods. And the taxes and insurance are killers once the assessed value of the houses shoot up precipitously once gentrification hits. So yeah, people often move to MD — but for most, buying in their original neighborhoods is no longer a realistically affordable option.
— I said I wouldn’t do this, and the PP can correct this if I’m wrong. But: I understood this as: the aunt sold her huge DC townhouse because of damage, and because she did not have the funds for repairs. She was able to get enough money from the sale to purchase a house in MD. (We don’t know if she has a mortgage on the MD house.) I’m guessing this because I’ve known people— who were retired and on relatively small, fixed incomes, who had long owned houses that were 100 years old or more. The houses began to need repairs— roofs, rewiring, plumbing — that they then, could not afford, in part because of gentrification, and consequent increases in taxes and insurance, as well as in the costs of doing major repairs. Sometimes the houses are damaged because of major renovations and new construction on adjacent row houses, damaging properties that then irrevocably change people’s lives along with their old neighborhoods.
So people paid off their mortgages and set aside funds for expected repairs— but hadn’t planned for or envisioned the exponentially higher expenses for pretty much everything that gentrification created.
Anonymous
10/08/2023 11:43
Subject: How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We refer to the general area as "DC." Non-natives view crossing the line into Maryland/Virginia as no longer "being in DC." As a general rule, if the metro/WMATA line extends to your area, you are "in DC."
LOL you are from the suburbs, huh? Native from DC here and no.
Let me guess, white and under 40?
Anonymous
10/08/2023 11:42
Subject: How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If you refer to DC as "Washington," dead giveaway that you aren't from here.
Disagree. Growing up (in my case in the 60s-70s) everyone referred to it as Washington. And it definitely meant the broader area. The house I grew up in in Bethesda had a Washington address until sometime in the 70s when 20816 was created (used to be part of 20016).
Nope. Nobody from DC calls it Washington.
Signed,
-70s/80s Native
Anonymous
10/08/2023 11:40
Subject: How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ask if they remember the Bayou in Georgetown.
+1
and Crazy Horse, Anastasia's. Fifth Column, The Ritz, The Cellar, The Roxy, Quigley's and my favorite, Tracks!
Anyone remember The Bank on F Street? https://ggwash.org/view/13059/once-a-bank-and-a-nightclub-historic-f-street-building-readies-for-next-step
And these bookstores: Waldenbooks, Crown Books, Kramerbooks & Afterwards.
Radio: WHFS, and Weasel (the best) + HFSFestival, The Don and Mike Show, Q107, WPGC
Yes! So many great memories
Anonymous
10/08/2023 11:39
Subject: How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If you refer to DC as "Washington," dead giveaway that you aren't from here.
Disagree. Growing up (in my case in the 60s-70s) everyone referred to it as Washington. And it definitely meant the broader area. The house I grew up in in Bethesda had a Washington address until sometime in the 70s when 20816 was created (used to be part of 20016).
Yep. Grew up in DC in 80s and 90s and still call it Washington unless I am talking to newbies.
Anonymous
10/08/2023 11:39
Subject: How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
Anonymous wrote:We refer to the general area as "DC." Non-natives view crossing the line into Maryland/Virginia as no longer "being in DC." As a general rule, if the metro/WMATA line extends to your area, you are "in DC."
LOL you are from the suburbs, huh? Native from DC here and no.
Anonymous
10/08/2023 11:36
Subject: How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ask if they remember the Bayou in Georgetown.
+1
and Crazy Horse, Anastasia's. Fifth Column, The Ritz, The Cellar, The Roxy, Quigley's and my favorite, Tracks!
Anyone remember The Bank on F Street? https://ggwash.org/view/13059/once-a-bank-and-a-nightclub-historic-f-street-building-readies-for-next-step
And these bookstores: Waldenbooks, Crown Books, Kramerbooks & Afterwards.
Radio: WHFS, and Weasel (the best) + HFSFestival, The Don and Mike Show, Q107, WPGC
Anonymous
10/08/2023 11:24
Subject: How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
Anonymous wrote:If you refer to DC as "Washington," dead giveaway that you aren't from here.
Disagree. Growing up (in my case in the 60s-70s) everyone referred to it as Washington. And it definitely meant the broader area. The house I grew up in in Bethesda had a Washington address until sometime in the 70s when 20816 was created (used to be part of 20016).
Anonymous
10/08/2023 11:24
Subject: How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If a person complains that people in this area are "so unfriendly!" I immediately know they are transplant.
Lived her a lifetime, it's all I know, and I think people are friendly enough. But I understand that in other areas of the country people can be super chatty and friendly so when people move here and it's a you mind your own business, and I will mind mine and we will be cold polite as needed, that it feels unfriendly.
I came here from Connecticut in the early 90s (so feel kinda native by now) and I thought people were very friendly, chatty, and Southern. Ha.
Natives are very friendly! It’s the transplants who are unfriendly. Especially young, white women. They think everyone’s a threat to them in some way. It’s such a strange way to live.
Very true! Then transients — who, for the most part have only looked to other transients and relatively recent transplants for socializing— complain that people in what they call the DMV are less than friendly.
Anonymous
10/08/2023 11:17
Subject: How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
If you refer to DC as "Washington," dead giveaway that you aren't from here.
Anonymous
10/08/2023 11:14
Subject: How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
We refer to the general area as "DC." Non-natives view crossing the line into Maryland/Virginia as no longer "being in DC." As a general rule, if the metro/WMATA line extends to your area, you are "in DC."
Anonymous
10/08/2023 11:11
Subject: How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The DMV is the Department of Motor Vehicles, not the DC area.
Omg!!! Yes! This number 1!!!
They just started using that stupid term about 10 years ago.
Signed, 53-year old native.
Lol 10 years ago? Have you even flipped past a black radio station in the last 30 years?
Anonymous
10/08/2023 10:23
Subject: How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The black DC natives got gentrified out to PG County and the white DC natives moved to Gaithersburg or Olney.
Not gentrified. They chose to go for new single family homes with larger yards. Suburbs, baby!
Because they were priced out of DC. My Auntie in DC owned a townhouse near rock creek in the 80's. She wanted to keep it because it was huge and as big as the SFH she bought in Maryland. She moved there because of severe damage to the TH.
Wait, I’m confused. So are you’re saying your auntie was priced out of owning TWO homes? Or are you saying that she sold her row house for a nice profit and bought a big SFH in MD because she didn’t want to do repairs on her own home.
Anonymous
10/08/2023 10:22
Subject: How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Twenty years from now, the answers will be, "You remember when
1) Jackson-Reed was called Wilson
2) Connecticut Ave used contra-flow during rush hour
3) CityLine was Fannie Mae
4) Georgetown Day and Sidwell had separated campuses
5) Rock Creek Park had car traffic north of Broad Branch
6) You used to watch movies as Mazza Gallerie
Real OGs watched movies at Union Station .
Those theaters opened in 1988.
Real OGs remember the creepy adult theaters that used to be down near Ford’s Theater, when that neighborhood was still burned out.
Hookers on 14th ST and Mr. Henry’s for underage drinking.
Anonymous
10/08/2023 10:18
Subject: How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
Anonymous wrote:As a few other real natives have already mentioned, DMV = Dept. of Motor Vehicles. I'd like to know which moron is responsible for starting this trend, I can assure you they weren't born and raised here.
+1,000,000
It drives me insane.