Anonymous
Post 04/12/2025 15:02     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Cathedral schools
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2025 15:02     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Crash on the beltway
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2025 15:01     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
“Isnt WaPO horrible?”
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2025 12:51     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:NOVA native here- 53 and in Alexandria. DMV is 100% a new thing used by transplants. No one born here before 1980 would ever use that stupid term. The DMV is where you get your license.


I'm a 20 year transplant to DC and I don't even hear the DC transplants using it. I think the M and the V are doing the heavy lifting with this term.

This is the kind of context I've heard it.
"Where are you from?"
(Us) "New York and Los Angeles but we've been living in DC the past 20 years."
"Awesome, we are also in the DMV!"
"Nice, whereabouts?"
"Gaithersburg"

Of course not. The transplants get all their self worth from telling people they 'live in the District.'

Totally. No native says this.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2025 12:49     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
When someone tells me she/he lives in the DMV, I reply “How come I didn’t see you when I was renewing my driving license”?
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2025 12:46     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:NOVA native here- 53 and in Alexandria. DMV is 100% a new thing used by transplants. No one born here before 1980 would ever use that stupid term. The DMV is where you get your license.


I'm a 20 year transplant to DC and I don't even hear the DC transplants using it. I think the M and the V are doing the heavy lifting with this term.

This is the kind of context I've heard it.
"Where are you from?"
(Us) "New York and Los Angeles but we've been living in DC the past 20 years."
"Awesome, we are also in the DMV!"
"Nice, whereabouts?"
"Gaithersburg"

Of course not. The transplants get all their self worth from telling people they 'live in the District.'
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2025 12:28     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Anonymous wrote:NOVA native here- 53 and in Alexandria. DMV is 100% a new thing used by transplants. No one born here before 1980 would ever use that stupid term. The DMV is where you get your license.


I'm a 20 year transplant to DC and I don't even hear the DC transplants using it. I think the M and the V are doing the heavy lifting with this term.

This is the kind of context I've heard it.
"Where are you from?"
(Us) "New York and Los Angeles but we've been living in DC the past 20 years."
"Awesome, we are also in the DMV!"
"Nice, whereabouts?"
"Gaithersburg"
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2025 11:57     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
NOVA native here- 53 and in Alexandria. DMV is 100% a new thing used by transplants. No one born here before 1980 would ever use that stupid term. The DMV is where you get your license.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2025 11:41     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?


Truth. Native here, and I do call DCA National.


To help those who are new to the area, we use Reagan National. If I need a shorter name, DCA.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2025 11:26     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?


Truth. Native here, and I do call DCA National.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2025 11:09     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Went to UVA, William and Mary, UMD College Park, or Virginia Tech.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2025 10:53     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.




Interesting response. I took “I work in research” in the same way that I would take “I work in government “. When I was growing up, adults—presumably because of security issues involving classified information— described their jobs tersely, in very broad terms. So : “I work in research” rather than “I’m working in biological warfare. Let me tell you about how to infect people on a plane with a very contagious, deadly disease “. PP, the issue described here is one of communication styles. It’s about subtle cultural practices— not about “foreign born brains”. Your response to the comment definitely marks you as being someone not from here.


NP. All very accurate. There are still people who are very brief in the response when meeting them, and people from here "get the hint" and don't keep prying. Takes one to know one.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2025 10:43     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
They think they know everything about the federal government, and people from elsewhere don’t even have the right to have an opinion about politics.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 20:40     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
They don't ask you what you do within 3 seconds of meeting you.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 20:37     Subject: How do you know someone is from the DC Metro/NoVa?
Anonymous wrote: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.


LOL!!!!!