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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 ...

Um, if you are active duty military you're right, you don't have a choice. And even with military, you are more often than not given three places to choose from. So you must have put this area down as one of your three choices.. if you are a civilian government worker, that 's your choice and nobody, absolutely nobody is forcing you to be here. You are here by choice.

We aren't here by choice, and I'll leave it at that.

This place blows. We make ourselves feel better by acknowledging that there are far worse places we could have ended up in the military, but that doesn't mean that this area doesn't suck.

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 ...

Um, if you are active duty military you're right, you don't have a choice. And even with military, you are more often than not given three places to choose from. So you must have put this area down as one of your three choices.. if you are a civilian government worker, that 's your choice and nobody, absolutely nobody is forcing you to be here. You are here by choice.

Anonymous wrote: I don't agree with previous comments that natives don't say "the city." We do. People from New York like to correct us that "the City" is New York.

You're both wrong. EVERYONE knows "The City" refers to San Francisco, and only San Francisco.

Anonymous wrote:This is a really stupid thread. So far all we've learned is that rich, spoiled, sheltered kids in Upper NW and Montgomery County who grew up and went to school together tend to stick together. How does that differentiate them from rich, spoiled, sheltered kids in any other suburb anywhere else?

No shit. This is the Whitest thread ever, and the fact that it's about DC "natives" makes that fact all the more ironic.

Anonymous wrote:I think transplants seem more infatuated with the area in general. They seem to view the city through perpetual rose colored glasses.

On the other hand, natives don't seem all that impressed. They don't seem to have the same thrill or appreciation that the transplants do, when seeing monuments or Dupont Circle other "DC" things

Not me. I'm here because my career's here and I can't wait to move back West once I retire.

Don't get me wrong, DC doesn't suck. It's just that "doesn't suck" isn't good enough.

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You do realize that the overwhelming majority of DC "Natives" have never stepped foot in a country club, were never on a swim team, and had nothing to do with lacrosse, right? BBQing? Now that might be another matter.

You need to get out more, and discover the real DC.

This, This, This, a thousand times This.

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Anonymous wrote:What differences do you notice between the two?

D.C. native are extremely hostile, smug and passive - sometimes passive aggressive; and seem to hate happy people. It would suck to be a native. No matter how many years I have resided here, I will never be a native.

I can't respect you because your logic is faulty. You're painting everyone with the same brush, and that's just nonsense. Plus, your punctuation is horrible.

Anonymous wrote:What differences do you notice between the two?

D.C. native are extremely hostile, smug and passive - sometimes passive aggressive; and seem to hate happy people. It would suck to be a native. No matter how many years I have resided here, I will never be a native.

Above PP - I get really excited about the city. Something about heading down N Capitol St and seeing the Capitol lit up. Or 16th street with all the flags once you hit the lettered streets. I really love this city and will be taking a turn early morning and just hit a sunrise and the Washington Monument in the right light, or swinging around Arlington and see all those graves from people giving their lives to their country and get choked up. I love this city and I'm so thankful to have grown up here among all this area offers.

Native here. In fact, I can trace my family line back to before DC was DC.
That said, I was raised in Silver Spring in the 80s & 90s. It always makes me chuckle when some questions my "native credentials" bc I grew up in Silver Spring. I could probably put together a house tour of DC properties that my family has owned over the last 150 years that are still standing. We took the metro (bus and rail) down into the city quite a bit. Like someone else said, I know and still associate quite a bit with other school kids - public and private - from the MoCo/NWDC corridor, though I would agree compared to other cities I have been to, I feel it's much more inclusive to transplants/outsiders.

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 ...

This sounds like when my best friend (who refuses to get out of her car, even when she has other options) says "There's so much traffic." My response: "You are traffic." If DCUM gets you down so much, why are you here? Get off. Never visit this site again. That's one thing you can do to improve the quality of your terrible, terrible life here. Poor you.

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 ...

I've been here 13 years, so definitely a transplant (plus also an immigrant) -- but this is the longest I've ever lived in one place. And I'm a transplant but I'm also (at this point, anyway) a lifer -- definitely see myself playing out the remainder of at least my working life here.

I know plenty of folks who grow up in and around this area. A few that are NWDC private school grads, a few that are DCPS grads from back in the day, and some folks that grew up in the burbs.

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Anonymous wrote:I think transplants seem more infatuated with the area in general. They seem to view the city through perpetual rose colored glasses.

On the other hand, natives don't seem all that impressed. They don't seem to have the same thrill or appreciation that the transplants do, when seeing monuments or Dupont Circle other "DC" things

That's funny, because as someone who you'd define as a "transplant" (horrible word, I'm not a spare organ) I view the area through shit colored glasses.

I find the people who grew up here and returned after college to be very unimaginative, uncreative and highly conservative. But then I'm only meeting parents of kids the same age as my own, so I expect all the really truly interesting people are out doing their interesting things.

Get the f*ck over yourself. People all over the world go to college and return home. They're not all "unimaginative, uncreative, and highly conservative." Besides, YOU chose to come here. What does that make you?

Are you always this defensive and immature?

NP. So the PP is defensive for calling a spade a spade. That poster did choose to move to DC I guess that makes her unimaginative, I creative, and highly conservative. I'm sure there are a few other words to describe her, but none quite so kind as the before mentioned.

I'm the poster who said get the f*ck over yourself, and I have nothing to be defensive about. I'm not a DC native. I just bristle when posters paint everyone around them with the same brush and then place themselves above them. If that makes me immature, then so be it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think transplants seem more infatuated with the area in general. They seem to view the city through perpetual rose colored glasses.

On the other hand, natives don't seem all that impressed. They don't seem to have the same thrill or appreciation that the transplants do, when seeing monuments or Dupont Circle other "DC" things

That's funny, because as someone who you'd define as a "transplant" (horrible word, I'm not a spare organ) I view the area through shit colored glasses.

I find the people who grew up here and returned after college to be very unimaginative, uncreative and highly conservative. But then I'm only meeting parents of kids the same age as my own, so I expect all the really truly interesting people are out doing their interesting things.

Get the f*ck over yourself. People all over the world go to college and return home. They're not all "unimaginative, uncreative, and highly conservative." Besides, YOU chose to come here. What does that make you?

Are you always this defensive and immature?

NP. So the PP is defensive for calling a spade a spade. That poster did choose to move to DC I guess that makes her unimaginative, I creative, and highly conservative. I'm sure there are a few other words to describe her, but none quite so kind as the before mentioned.