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Anonymous wrote:Many Annapolitans are transplants. Many of the locals do have the Maryland accent, listen for the Maryland “o” and you will hear it.

PP. My grandma with 2 parents from the Davidsonville Road area had that, I think.

"Dog" sounded like "Doahg".

I had forgotten that. That sound and the "Warshington" were all we noticed at home.

My grandmother was from DC and she called it Warshington.

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Anonymous wrote:Annapolis definitely feels blue collar and redneck, don’t know what you guys are taking about. About 50% of the people you’ll see there have tattoos, the food scene is 90% bar and pub food, there are no high end/sophistic restaurants, and it feels like a rustic town from the south.

Huh??? Have we been to the same Annapolis?

Your description sounds more like Odenton and Glen Burnie.

Yes, I’ve lived in Annapolis, and I’m born and raised in Bethesda. I’ve also lived around much of the US and even outside of it. Annapolis is not all multi-million dollar waterfront homes on the Severn River. Much of it is working-class and middle-class, and there’s a bunch of public housing within the city. Highland Beach and Parole have a lot of working-class rednecks. It’s not the rich la-la-la land you all wish it was, it’s like any other super segregated city from the south. Also, in my experience, the white people in Annapolis are way more racist and Trumpy than white people in Odenton, who are way more progressive. There is nothing high end about downtown Annapolis at all. It’s just a bunch of bars, pubs, grungy coffee shops like Rise Up. Anything fancy in Annapolis looks stuck in 2005, like Carpaccio.

Odenton and Crofton are far more cosmopolitan than Annapolis ever will be. The only “diversity” in Annapolis is Black and Hispanic people living in public housing. Both Odenton and Crofton blow Annapolis out of the water when it comes to the percentage of college educated residents. Diversity in Crofton and Odenton includes Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Muslim, and Indian families. They have the highest percentage of foreign born families in all of AA County. The horrible/garbage public schools in Annapolis would never attract those families in a million years. Not even wealthy people in Annapolis want anything to do with those schools.

Odenton, Crofton and cosmopolitan. That’s the first time I’ve seen those words in a sentence together.

Big night in Odenton is getting a chicken box at Royal Farms and finishing the night with some cold ones at Buck Murphy’s.

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Anonymous wrote:Annapolis definitely feels blue collar and redneck, don’t know what you guys are taking about. About 50% of the people you’ll see there have tattoos, the food scene is 90% bar and pub food, there are no high end/sophistic restaurants, and it feels like a rustic town from the south.

Huh??? Have we been to the same Annapolis?

Your description sounds more like Odenton and Glen Burnie.

Yes, I’ve lived in Annapolis, and I’m born and raised in Bethesda. I’ve also lived around much of the US and even outside of it. Annapolis is not all multi-million dollar waterfront homes on the Severn River. Much of it is working-class and middle-class, and there’s a bunch of public housing within the city. Highland Beach and Parole have a lot of working-class rednecks. It’s not the rich la-la-la land you all wish it was, it’s like any other super segregated city from the south. Also, in my experience, the white people in Annapolis are way more racist and Trumpy than white people in Odenton, who are way more progressive. There is nothing high end about downtown Annapolis at all. It’s just a bunch of bars, pubs, grungy coffee shops like Rise Up. Anything fancy in Annapolis looks stuck in 2005, like Carpaccio.

Odenton and Crofton are far more cosmopolitan than Annapolis ever will be. The only “diversity” in Annapolis is Black and Hispanic people living in public housing. Both Odenton and Crofton blow Annapolis out of the water when it comes to the percentage of college educated residents. Diversity in Crofton and Odenton includes Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Muslim, and Indian families. They have the highest percentage of foreign born families in all of AA County. The horrible/garbage public schools in Annapolis would never attract those families in a million years. Not even wealthy people in Annapolis want anything to do with those schools.

Odenton, Crofton and cosmopolitan. That’s the first time I’ve seen those words in a sentence together.

Compared to Annapolis, they are. Annapolis is the type of place where people think Indians and Arabs are the same.

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Anonymous wrote:Annapolis definitely feels blue collar and redneck, don’t know what you guys are taking about. About 50% of the people you’ll see there have tattoos, the food scene is 90% bar and pub food, there are no high end/sophistic restaurants, and it feels like a rustic town from the south.

Huh??? Have we been to the same Annapolis?

Your description sounds more like Odenton and Glen Burnie.

Yes, I’ve lived in Annapolis, and I’m born and raised in Bethesda. I’ve also lived around much of the US and even outside of it. Annapolis is not all multi-million dollar waterfront homes on the Severn River. Much of it is working-class and middle-class, and there’s a bunch of public housing within the city. Highland Beach and Parole have a lot of working-class rednecks. It’s not the rich la-la-la land you all wish it was, it’s like any other super segregated city from the south. Also, in my experience, the white people in Annapolis are way more racist and Trumpy than white people in Odenton, who are way more progressive. There is nothing high end about downtown Annapolis at all. It’s just a bunch of bars, pubs, grungy coffee shops like Rise Up. Anything fancy in Annapolis looks stuck in 2005, like Carpaccio.

Odenton and Crofton are far more cosmopolitan than Annapolis ever will be. The only “diversity” in Annapolis is Black and Hispanic people living in public housing. Both Odenton and Crofton blow Annapolis out of the water when it comes to the percentage of college educated residents. Diversity in Crofton and Odenton includes Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Muslim, and Indian families. They have the highest percentage of foreign born families in all of AA County. The horrible/garbage public schools in Annapolis would never attract those families in a million years. Not even wealthy people in Annapolis want anything to do with those schools.

Odenton, Crofton and cosmopolitan. That’s the first time I’ve seen those words in a sentence together.

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Anonymous wrote:Annapolis definitely feels blue collar and redneck, don’t know what you guys are taking about. About 50% of the people you’ll see there have tattoos, the food scene is 90% bar and pub food, there are no high end/sophistic restaurants, and it feels like a rustic town from the south.

Huh??? Have we been to the same Annapolis?

Your description sounds more like Odenton and Glen Burnie.

Really? Because if you actually look at school rankings, median household income, college attainment, poverty, and crime stats, Annapolis and Glen Burnie are far more comparable to each other than Glen Burnie and Odenton ever will be.

Annapolis and Odenton are literally both just suburban sprawl outside of historic downtown Annapolis. Unless you're living in DTA or in a $3M waterfront home, you're living the exact same suburban lifestyle people in Odenton do--except with less diversity, more Trumpers, and mediocre public schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Annapolis definitely feels blue collar and redneck, don’t know what you guys are taking about. About 50% of the people you’ll see there have tattoos, the food scene is 90% bar and pub food, there are no high end/sophistic restaurants, and it feels like a rustic town from the south.

Huh??? Have we been to the same Annapolis?

Your description sounds more like Odenton and Glen Burnie.

Yes, I’ve lived in Annapolis, and I’m born and raised in Bethesda. I’ve also lived around much of the US and even outside of it. Annapolis is not all multi-million dollar waterfront homes on the Severn River. Much of it is working-class and middle-class, and there’s a bunch of public housing within the city. Highland Beach and Parole have a lot of working-class rednecks. It’s not the rich la-la-la land you all wish it was, it’s like any other super segregated city from the south. Also, in my experience, the white people in Annapolis are way more racist and Trumpy than white people in Odenton, who are way more progressive. There is nothing high end about downtown Annapolis at all. It’s just a bunch of bars, pubs, grungy coffee shops like Rise Up. Anything fancy in Annapolis looks stuck in 2005, like Carpaccio.

Odenton and Crofton are far more cosmopolitan than Annapolis ever will be. The only “diversity” in Annapolis is Black and Hispanic people living in public housing. Both Odenton and Crofton blow Annapolis out of the water when it comes to the percentage of college educated residents. Diversity in Crofton and Odenton includes Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Muslim, and Indian families. They have the highest percentage of foreign born families in all of AA County. The horrible/garbage public schools in Annapolis would never attract those families in a million years. Not even wealthy people in Annapolis want anything to do with those schools.

Sounds similar to Alexandria.

I have spent a lot of time in Odenton and Annapolis. I’ll take Annapolis.

Annapolis looking down on Odenton and equating them with Glen Burnie is hilarious. Almost everyone would pick public schools in Odenton over public schools in Annapolis any day of the week, it’s not even a contest. Arundel High School takes a dump on Annapolis High School in every category, especially when you take the IB magnet kids out of the equation who are the only reason Annapolis looks even slightly redeemable. There is a reason Annapolis has 4 magnet programs and Arundel has 0, because they don’t need magnet programs to pop their school up.

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Anonymous wrote:Annapolis definitely feels blue collar and redneck, don’t know what you guys are taking about. About 50% of the people you’ll see there have tattoos, the food scene is 90% bar and pub food, there are no high end/sophistic restaurants, and it feels like a rustic town from the south.

Huh??? Have we been to the same Annapolis?

Your description sounds more like Odenton and Glen Burnie.

Yes, I’ve lived in Annapolis, and I’m born and raised in Bethesda. I’ve also lived around much of the US and even outside of it. Annapolis is not all multi-million dollar waterfront homes on the Severn River. Much of it is working-class and middle-class, and there’s a bunch of public housing within the city. Highland Beach and Parole have a lot of working-class rednecks. It’s not the rich la-la-la land you all wish it was, it’s like any other super segregated city from the south. Also, in my experience, the white people in Annapolis are way more racist and Trumpy than white people in Odenton, who are way more progressive. There is nothing high end about downtown Annapolis at all. It’s just a bunch of bars, pubs, grungy coffee shops like Rise Up. Anything fancy in Annapolis looks stuck in 2005, like Carpaccio.

Odenton and Crofton are far more cosmopolitan than Annapolis ever will be. The only “diversity” in Annapolis is Black and Hispanic people living in public housing. Both Odenton and Crofton blow Annapolis out of the water when it comes to the percentage of college educated residents. Diversity in Crofton and Odenton includes Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Muslim, and Indian families. They have the highest percentage of foreign born families in all of AA County. The horrible/garbage public schools in Annapolis would never attract those families in a million years. Not even wealthy people in Annapolis want anything to do with those schools.

Anonymous wrote:Annapolis definitely feels blue collar and redneck, don’t know what you guys are taking about. About 50% of the people you’ll see there have tattoos, the food scene is 90% bar and pub food, there are no high end/sophistic restaurants, and it feels like a rustic town from the south.

Huh??? Have we been to the same Annapolis?

Your description sounds more like Odenton and Glen Burnie.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever Annapolis lacks in dialect, Glen Burnie, Pasadena (AKA Dirty ‘Dena), Odenton, Gambrills, Crownsville, Edge”Wooder” and others more than compensate.

Sorry, no. Odenton and Gambrills aren't lumped into this group, people in this area don't "warsh their clothes in the wooder."

Odenton, AKA “Odorton,” spelled backwards is “Noten a’ do,” definitely has some Bawlmoreese going on. There is also some redneck, Obama hatin’, crab pick in’ rednecks. You can’t be that close to Glen Burnie and escape it. It’s definitely a weird mix, kind of like Waldorf. You have the natives, lots of fed and military transplants and lots of people who have fled cities for the suburban life.

You’ve got to be kidding. Going to Annapolis feels like watching a theatrical musical that takes place in 1965. It’s a mixture of working-class waterbillies, affluent old money whites who are culturally the same as the waterbillies but wealthier, and minorities concentrated in public housing out of sight and out of mind. It’s the most hyper-segregated part of Anne Arundel County as well. The current AACPS redistricting is getting very controversial because it might tackle segregation between Annapolis and South River High Schools — something neither side is happy about. Private school usage among whites in Annapolis is high. Annapolis is a southern city at its core.

Crofton and Odenton are newer suburbs that are very much along the path of suburban sprawl out of DC. More of the upper-middle-class Asian, Middle Eastern, and Indian immigrant families in Anne Arundel County choose to move to communities like Crofton and Odenton because of their schools and their commuter friendliness to DC and Fort Meade.

Annapolis definitely feels blue collar and redneck, don’t know what you guys are taking about. About 50% of the people you’ll see there have tattoos, the food scene is 90% bar and pub food, there are no high end/sophistic restaurants, and it feels like a rustic town from the south.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever Annapolis lacks in dialect, Glen Burnie, Pasadena (AKA Dirty ‘Dena), Odenton, Gambrills, Crownsville, Edge”Wooder” and others more than compensate.

Sorry, no. Odenton and Gambrills aren't lumped into this group, people in this area don't "warsh their clothes in the wooder."

I was gonna say. Odenton and Gambrills are very much DC suburbs in Anne Arundel County. It feels more like a part of Montgomery County there. Same with Crofton.

More Bawlmer than DC. Sure, they all take the MARC into DC for work, but the vibe is definitely more Glen Burnie and Pasadena. Lots of purple camo on when the Ravens are playing.

They’re not. Look at the demographics and a voter map. West Anne Arundel County is the most progressive and consistently blue voting area within Anne Arundel County now. Annapolis is significantly more Trumpy and doesn’t have as many people with college degrees as Crofton and Odenton do. Communities like Piney Orchard, Two Rivers, and Crofton significantly changed the demographics of the area.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever Annapolis lacks in dialect, Glen Burnie, Pasadena (AKA Dirty ‘Dena), Odenton, Gambrills, Crownsville, Edge”Wooder” and others more than compensate.

Sorry, no. Odenton and Gambrills aren't lumped into this group, people in this area don't "warsh their clothes in the wooder."

I was gonna say. Odenton and Gambrills are very much DC suburbs in Anne Arundel County. It feels more like a part of Montgomery County there. Same with Crofton.

More Bawlmer than DC. Sure, they all take the MARC into DC for work, but the vibe is definitely more Glen Burnie and Pasadena. Lots of purple camo on when the Ravens are playing.

No, not really Odenton, Crofton, and Gambrills boomed during a completely different time period than Glen Burnie and Pasadena did. Glen Burnie and Pasadena are some of the oldest suburbs in Anne Arundel County and they are pure Baltimore suburbs. The former areas were nothing but farms until the 70s and took off during building booms in the 90s and 2000s. The rednecks you see in Glen Burnie and Pasadena come from Baltimore white flight. The rednecks you see in an area like Crofton or Odenton are more like white flight from Bowie, Greenbelt, Lanham, etc.

And to be honest, these areas feel less redneck than Olney, Poolesville, and Damascus.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever Annapolis lacks in dialect, Glen Burnie, Pasadena (AKA Dirty ‘Dena), Odenton, Gambrills, Crownsville, Edge”Wooder” and others more than compensate.

Sorry, no. Odenton and Gambrills aren't lumped into this group, people in this area don't "warsh their clothes in the wooder."

I was gonna say. Odenton and Gambrills are very much DC suburbs in Anne Arundel County. It feels more like a part of Montgomery County there. Same with Crofton.

More Bawlmer than DC. Sure, they all take the MARC into DC for work, but the vibe is definitely more Glen Burnie and Pasadena. Lots of purple camo on when the Ravens are playing.