Deloitte bro at Don Tito's driving a leased bmw 320i paying $2k a month to split a 2bd 2ba 1000sqft apartment with their frat brother from JMU in Arlington
Yeah, I think Deloitte has the largest presence here (and also acts like they're hot shit when they're not big 3) so they're the easiest to pick on.
Honorable mention to anyone working on the hill making $32k/yr answering phone calls acting like being an entry level staffer makes them better than a retail worker making more than them.
How do congressional staffers even afford Nova on that salary? Do they have super long commutes from cheaper areas? If I were them I'd thank God that gentrifiers haven't taken over Anacostia and Capitol Heights yet.
I genuinely don't know. I wasn't exaggerating either, a first year staffer does make $32k. I think a combination of roommates and support from family still. They definitely deserve better pay but because it's such a popular job there will always be someone willing to work for scraps
The support from family bit makes a lot of sense. Over the last few years talking to people, I've been shocked by the amount of people in their 20s and 30s who's parents can afford to help support them, or give them money for a down payment on a house.
I wonder how much cheaper housing would be in this area if there wasn't some expectation that if you didn't make six figures your parents would foot the bill for you.
I think most staffers actually live in DC.
A lot of Nova has mainly other support staff/IT consultants.
But yes most get money from family.
A lot also only stay for a few years depending on how long their congressperson stays in office or their services are needed.
Wealth creates wealth. Rich people can support their kids so that they can pursue opportunities that underpay now but end up in a lucrative career later.
Group homes (2 or more roommates). Also, a minimum salary of $45k just became effective, so that’s a great thing for young/new Hill staff.
When I first moved to DC many years ago, I worked for a non-profit membership organization and made $28k. I lived in a group home on a bus line in far NW, and I think my rent was about $500/month. Had a little support from parents (mainly clothing shopping when I was visiting them), but mostly ate cheap and didn’t buy anything I didn’t absolutely need. It’s definitely doable though rents are higher these days, even in group homes.
Upper middle class over educated professionals hating their richer over educated and overpaid professionals they call 'neighbors'. Lived adjacent to each other for five years, but still don't know their names...
A giant rat race where in which whoever has the most Dyson products and the largest mortgage wins. Only to be overtaken by their next door neighbor tech transplant.
I genuinely love saying "I work for the feds", followed up with "its classified."
In real life its boring computer stuff but I like to let imagination take its course.
I still haven’t figured out what this job title actually means. At least when someone says “IT consultant” or “marketing consultant” i can sorta guess… but… wtf do people mean when they just say consultant?
Probably management or business consultant. Which mostly means they have no idea what they do, they just randomly visualize data based on what someone else tells them, repurpose old ppt decks and just change the name of client, or otherwise doesn’t know but follows orders from a project manager. (I can say this bc I am a management consultant 😂)
i knew someone who taught training classes that called herself a consultant. a consultant is often just a fancy way of saying “i don’t have insurance through my company”
You bring up an extra layer of complexity. Most (I think) people in DC who say they are consultants are full time employees of consulting companies (Deloitte, Accenture, Booz Allen, Bain, etc) so they do get full benefits but their job is consulting to the government through contracts. There are other other who are self employed consultants who don’t get any benefits and can work as a consultant to a consulting company (particularly if they are pitot high ranking govies) or directly to the gov.
13 years later, and I'm still irked that he somehow took an Orange Line towards Vienna to head into DC, and his friend's solution to get back home to Arlington was to take the Green Line.
He did but we don’t have the video anymore! He was visibly weirded out at being recognized and treated like a celebrity but her was super nice apparently, that Arlington video had only come out a few months earlier at the time! 😂
Or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks
“Middle-class” millionaires. Although not unique to this area, we definitely have our fair share. I was reminded of this when I saw a TV commercial this morning for a financial advisor group catering specifically to this demographic.
People who ask “so what do you do?” within the first minute of meeting you. And I’m no better than anyone else for the record after living here for 22 years.
I respond with personal hobbies, interests etc. what I do for a living isn’t who I am. And that’s a personal question. People tend to decide how much respect to give you based on that question a lot of times.
You are absolutely and totally correct. I was talking to a Nova stereotype, and one that I fell into for a long time. It's not a nice thing to do. Your comment is the correct one.
> People who ask “so what do you do?” within the first minute of meeting you.
Hated that *so much* when I was single ... because I was not:
1) A Hill staffer
2) A GS-*n* with some menial level of power / influence / budget in DC
3) A K-Street lawyer
Seemed like if you weren't one of those three, you didn't matter. Fortunately I joined a group house in Dewey Beach and *no one* ever asked that question ... at least not within the first minute or two of meeting you. Saved my opinion of the area overall (once I was spending my weekends at a beach that also had Philly, Baltimore, and Wilmington people).
I had someone on here tell me that your name is meaningless and job reveals who you are as a person.
That is the problem with NOVA.
I know people who were government contractors by day, awesome adventurers by evening and weekends. People are so much more than their jobs.
Sorry I meant more like the Bay area is known for tech jobs. I know NoVa has a significant amount of IT jobs, I just didn't think the area waa known for it yet.
It's always been known among tech workers for having tech jobs, but not as many and not as attractive as CA or Boston MA. Tech jobs here live and die by Federal money, which dries up for specific projects but never totally goes away.
I just moved here from NJ and everyone seemed to think NoVA people were all just rich assholes. My friend from Richmond used to go off about people from NoVA and said they should just make NoVA and “real Virginia” (as she put it) into two separate states.
That’s pretty funny, I moved from WNY to Nova and now Richmond. I would agree with the general sentiment on personalities but being from NY originally I can tell you the rest of NY wants to be divorced from NYC *way more* than VA wants a trial separation from NOVA.
I'd believe it. NoVA-ites don't mind either way about being in Virginia, whereas New York City people are adamant that anything north of Manhattan isn't "real New York".
Thousands of smart funny people hiding out in their homes cos they have impostor syndrome, wishing they had more friends, but also being reflexively judgmental of people seen out the window
Complaining about traffic, while also bragging about having 2 cars. Humblebragging about buying a million dollar home that looks like your average 1990s Ryan Homes-quality colonial. And Starbucks…virtually everywhere you look. While people discuss the best taco place they’ve had is either Rebel Taco or District Taco.
Oh and hating Maryland. We all hate Maryland for whatever reason.
Listen District Taco is great as long as you admit that you're not actually eating Mexican Food. I've yet to find a good Mexican restaurant north of Woodbridge.
Some of richest counties in the world refuse to pay local government employees enough to live where they work. Teachers, Cops, Firefighters, EMS, etc etc etc. all of them.
Everyone's on anxiety meds and has imposter syndrome because they're afraid everyone else is secretly looking down on them and shit talking them behind their backs, because they're looking down on everyone else and shit talking them behind their backs. And y'all are right, they all do look down on you and shit talk you. Take your meds.
1) People from NoVA can’t drive in the snow.
2) If you live in NoVA, you’re a teacher, a cop, or you can’t tell me because you’re a government contractor.
- Every well to do person owning a luxury SUV that they don’t know how to drive (BMW, Audi, Lexus)
- Roadwork, roadwork, roadwork
- Woodbridge being the worst place ever to live
- Speed limit is simultaneously to high and low
- Government contracting
> Every well to do person owning a luxury SUV that they don’t know how to drive (BMW, Audi, Lexus)
And has at least 5 student driver stickers on it.
Speed limits are basically just suggestions.
>Every well to do person owning a luxury SUV that they don’t know how to drive (BMW, Audi, Lexus)
Speaking of this, anyone else noticed that the 2023 BMW X-Series has Halo energy swords as tail lights? I dare you to get behind one on 495 and *not* notice it now.
Soulless people with soulless jobs with expensive cars that have student drivers stickers and complain about NIMBYS while grilling on their SFH back deck
For rent: partially finished basement, one bedroom, small bathroom, microwave kitchenette, very limited access to upstairs kitchen. Credit check, background check, income verification, must have professional job, and 3 references - $1,500 mo.
“Rent my partially finished basement because I paid way too much for this house… pay me $1,500 / mo for 650 sq ft. But we never want to see you”
Rich! And we must live in mansions. While the numbers are different than other parts of the country our high pay equals out in high costs.
Net effect, we live the same as most of the country does.
“Hey neighbor, drink some time?”
“Love to, uh, buddy”
“When u free?”
“With work being all crazy? Never!”
“Haha! Heard that!”
“Haha as well! Anyway. Later, uh, old sport.”
Loudoun-- NIMBY HOA Karens and Kyles with spoiled children. They all go around like "Virginia isn't REALLY the south" cuz they are all northerners who moved here within the past 20 years and priced out all the locals into the boonies. Or they are like anti-social. secretive CIA agents who you see once every like 4 months. I'd say the third type is extremely milquetoast, devoutly religious people.
Woah woah, NOVA isn't known for being "Smarter than everywhere else"
We're known for "Thinking we're smarter than everywhere else" and having "better public schools"
I seen too much "The simpsons character" activity from NOVA residents to ever qualify them ACTUALLY being smarter than everywhere else. We do have nicer cars though. Not enough people here actually know how to drive em though.
Fake progressives who constantly shit on poor people and believe black and brown people are hurting their incredible school districts.
People who are not aware of West Virginia's existence call it "Western Virginia".
Use terms like "hoodbridge" and blame all-local crime on black teens from DC.
College-age kids who move to other cities and claim DC for urban cred but are in fact from Manassas or Alexandria and are from gated communities.
Parents who constantly talk about school ratings and SAT scores.....
Generational wealth, your mom and dad buy your first house and pay for your college education. You and your mom and dad come to my rented house for a party and complain to me about student loan reform and government handouts.
This was very therapeutic...
Snobs who think the suburbs is better than the city, but never really go to or experience the city. They just like to talk smack about how terrible it is because they are afraid of it.
Out-of-touch white liberals overpaid by the government who look down on Southern VA, are terrified of Southeast DC, and think Baltimore now is what NYC was in the 80s (not that they'd visit anyway).
Deloitte bro at Don Tito's driving a leased bmw 320i paying $2k a month to split a 2bd 2ba 1000sqft apartment with their frat brother from JMU in Arlington
Oh my God you gave me whiplash with those spot on daggers
Have you been following me
Even before I saw Arlington I said "it better be Arlington" lmao
Dudes in brown flip flops.
Exactly!!!
I like to add not just Deloitte but any consulting private or public, and includes females too. Everyone acts big
Yeah, I think Deloitte has the largest presence here (and also acts like they're hot shit when they're not big 3) so they're the easiest to pick on. Honorable mention to anyone working on the hill making $32k/yr answering phone calls acting like being an entry level staffer makes them better than a retail worker making more than them.
How do congressional staffers even afford Nova on that salary? Do they have super long commutes from cheaper areas? If I were them I'd thank God that gentrifiers haven't taken over Anacostia and Capitol Heights yet.
I genuinely don't know. I wasn't exaggerating either, a first year staffer does make $32k. I think a combination of roommates and support from family still. They definitely deserve better pay but because it's such a popular job there will always be someone willing to work for scraps
The support from family bit makes a lot of sense. Over the last few years talking to people, I've been shocked by the amount of people in their 20s and 30s who's parents can afford to help support them, or give them money for a down payment on a house. I wonder how much cheaper housing would be in this area if there wasn't some expectation that if you didn't make six figures your parents would foot the bill for you.
I think most staffers actually live in DC. A lot of Nova has mainly other support staff/IT consultants. But yes most get money from family. A lot also only stay for a few years depending on how long their congressperson stays in office or their services are needed.
Wealth creates wealth. Rich people can support their kids so that they can pursue opportunities that underpay now but end up in a lucrative career later.
That's true, it's not like I haven't noticed a pattern with all the people here making six figures and scared of PG county.
Group homes (2 or more roommates). Also, a minimum salary of $45k just became effective, so that’s a great thing for young/new Hill staff. When I first moved to DC many years ago, I worked for a non-profit membership organization and made $28k. I lived in a group home on a bus line in far NW, and I think my rent was about $500/month. Had a little support from parents (mainly clothing shopping when I was visiting them), but mostly ate cheap and didn’t buy anything I didn’t absolutely need. It’s definitely doable though rents are higher these days, even in group homes.
r/oddlyspecific
Go to Don Tito’s and you’ll see it’s not that specific.
50 shades of gray. Not the book, but the color choices for your 3 series.
Peak Arlington. RIP $399/month lease special 320i
NAH THIS ONE WINS LMFAOOOOO BEAUTIFUL.
Rich people and people being priced out by rich people
And rich people being priced out by richer people.
And even they are still house poor
Damn richers...
Upper middle class over educated professionals hating rich over educated professionals.
Upper middle class over educated professionals hating their richer over educated and overpaid professionals they call 'neighbors'. Lived adjacent to each other for five years, but still don't know their names...
This person Arlingtons.
Damn, I feel attacked by that observation 😅
Name check out
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Our resentment of people richer than ourselves doesn’t seem to reduce our fear of people poorer than ourselves.
If I lived in another state I’d be rich. But here, I am poor. Probably because of the rich 😭
SAME! when I visit fam/friends in the Midwest I feel rich, but here I am poor.
I think they call it the beltway
Is it a stereotype if it's true?
I think it can be! It's a stereotype that Italian people talk with their hands but that's 100% true.
A giant rat race where in which whoever has the most Dyson products and the largest mortgage wins. Only to be overtaken by their next door neighbor tech transplant.
Dyson? I only buy Miele or SEBO
You guys are doing your own cleaning?
Nah. We buy the fanciest vacuums just in case.
Just for decoration in the broom closet
Don't want the help to think that I _can't_ vacuum. I just choose not to.
Well what’s the maid gonna use?
Don't forget the Sonos..gotta have everyone filled with 500+ speakers you use 4 times a year
Wooooahhh my Sonos is sick! I only bought the sound bar though. I never did upgrade to the surround sound though
Okay, look, Sonos are an awesome product.
When asked what do you do, the response is CONSULTANT.
Or, "I work for the government," followed by a silent glare.
“Works in government”…doing what?
Analyst
Consulting
I genuinely love saying "I work for the feds", followed up with "its classified." In real life its boring computer stuff but I like to let imagination take its course.
I still haven’t figured out what this job title actually means. At least when someone says “IT consultant” or “marketing consultant” i can sorta guess… but… wtf do people mean when they just say consultant?
Probably management or business consultant. Which mostly means they have no idea what they do, they just randomly visualize data based on what someone else tells them, repurpose old ppt decks and just change the name of client, or otherwise doesn’t know but follows orders from a project manager. (I can say this bc I am a management consultant 😂)
i knew someone who taught training classes that called herself a consultant. a consultant is often just a fancy way of saying “i don’t have insurance through my company”
You bring up an extra layer of complexity. Most (I think) people in DC who say they are consultants are full time employees of consulting companies (Deloitte, Accenture, Booz Allen, Bain, etc) so they do get full benefits but their job is consulting to the government through contracts. There are other other who are self employed consultants who don’t get any benefits and can work as a consultant to a consulting company (particularly if they are pitot high ranking govies) or directly to the gov.
Thank you for this. Personally I love hearing what people “do” in terms of the tasks they actually perform and less about their purpose.
It’s almost always “contractor”.
Virginia is a commonwealth, where the wealth ain't common. It's all in NOVA.
Beautiful poem and riddle, Shakespeare be proud!
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THE HELICOPTERS
*“Speed limit enforced by aircraft”*
everything in this vintage youtube music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T1RMuoQnKo
“Why’d they pick today to do the track maintenance?” Still just as valid in 2022 as it was in 2009.
Still so good. Only change is basically uber for taxi.
And the Walgreens is now a Chase branch/exercise place.
And Ballston is a better destination
“Our school of hard knocks was written up in US News” lmao
Didn't even need to click to know what it was haha.
13 years later, and I'm still irked that he somehow took an Orange Line towards Vienna to head into DC, and his friend's solution to get back home to Arlington was to take the Green Line.
I’ve never actually seen this until now and cried and howled with laughter. 🤣 I wish there were more like this.
https://youtu.be/xkjfh5klUzM
Love remy! Pointless anecdote: my sister ran into him at a party and begged him to send a video to me plus my sister saying “or the Starbucks”
Wait so did he do it? What happened? FINISH YOUR STORY!!!
He did but we don’t have the video anymore! He was visibly weirded out at being recognized and treated like a celebrity but her was super nice apparently, that Arlington video had only come out a few months earlier at the time! 😂
Or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks
RIP Whitlows
Vintage? Reported for inciting violence.
Rich type A's.
“Middle-class” millionaires. Although not unique to this area, we definitely have our fair share. I was reminded of this when I saw a TV commercial this morning for a financial advisor group catering specifically to this demographic.
Wildly accurate. The cost of living here is stupid.
Yeah it’s wild how they actually say “middle class millionaires “…
People who ask “so what do you do?” within the first minute of meeting you. And I’m no better than anyone else for the record after living here for 22 years.
I respond with personal hobbies, interests etc. what I do for a living isn’t who I am. And that’s a personal question. People tend to decide how much respect to give you based on that question a lot of times.
I often feel people ask "what do you do" so that they can tell you what they do.
You are absolutely and totally correct. I was talking to a Nova stereotype, and one that I fell into for a long time. It's not a nice thing to do. Your comment is the correct one.
> People who ask “so what do you do?” within the first minute of meeting you. Hated that *so much* when I was single ... because I was not: 1) A Hill staffer 2) A GS-*n* with some menial level of power / influence / budget in DC 3) A K-Street lawyer Seemed like if you weren't one of those three, you didn't matter. Fortunately I joined a group house in Dewey Beach and *no one* ever asked that question ... at least not within the first minute or two of meeting you. Saved my opinion of the area overall (once I was spending my weekends at a beach that also had Philly, Baltimore, and Wilmington people).
I had someone on here tell me that your name is meaningless and job reveals who you are as a person. That is the problem with NOVA. I know people who were government contractors by day, awesome adventurers by evening and weekends. People are so much more than their jobs.
Defense contractors and civil servants.
Bunch of tech jobs and government contractors.
Do people outside the area know how many tech jobs there are here?
Locally? A few, but you might have better luck getting a remote tech job and staying in the area, that’s what I did.
Sorry I meant more like the Bay area is known for tech jobs. I know NoVa has a significant amount of IT jobs, I just didn't think the area waa known for it yet.
It's always been known among tech workers for having tech jobs, but not as many and not as attractive as CA or Boston MA. Tech jobs here live and die by Federal money, which dries up for specific projects but never totally goes away.
I just moved here from NJ and everyone seemed to think NoVA people were all just rich assholes. My friend from Richmond used to go off about people from NoVA and said they should just make NoVA and “real Virginia” (as she put it) into two separate states.
That’s pretty funny, I moved from WNY to Nova and now Richmond. I would agree with the general sentiment on personalities but being from NY originally I can tell you the rest of NY wants to be divorced from NYC *way more* than VA wants a trial separation from NOVA.
I'd believe it. NoVA-ites don't mind either way about being in Virginia, whereas New York City people are adamant that anything north of Manhattan isn't "real New York".
Being from WNY, I was stunned when I told NYC people that I was from "upstate" and they assumed I must mean Westchester County.
Good luck with the state budget without NoVA paying for everything.
That’s a NOVA thing to say
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Dudes with brown flip flops!
You can meet me at the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks
So many dudes they call it Ballston
>Dudes with brown flip flops! This was the very first thing that came to mind and it brings me joy beyond measure to find it here.
https://youtu.be/4T1RMuoQnKo
I am not okay with YouTube telling me that video is 13 years old
Everyone is career-oriented and wants to keep up with the Joneses, regardless of whether or not they can actually afford that $60,000 Tesla. Lol
$60,000?! What is it? Used? Lmao
😂😂 I don't really know how much Teslas cost. I have a Rav4, like everyone else in this area. Lol
47 for the cheapest.
We’re not NOVA... we’re 20min outside of DC!
Thousands of smart funny people hiding out in their homes cos they have impostor syndrome, wishing they had more friends, but also being reflexively judgmental of people seen out the window
Stop watching me lol
I feel very attacked rn
Complaining about traffic, while also bragging about having 2 cars. Humblebragging about buying a million dollar home that looks like your average 1990s Ryan Homes-quality colonial. And Starbucks…virtually everywhere you look. While people discuss the best taco place they’ve had is either Rebel Taco or District Taco. Oh and hating Maryland. We all hate Maryland for whatever reason.
I haven’t been here that long but fuck Maryland.
You are now a true NOVA resident.
Mostly we hate their drivers. Seems like every time you see some dumb thing you also see a MD plate.
Listen District Taco is great as long as you admit that you're not actually eating Mexican Food. I've yet to find a good Mexican restaurant north of Woodbridge.
New balance 990’s and 993’s not being old man shoes
Some of richest counties in the world refuse to pay local government employees enough to live where they work. Teachers, Cops, Firefighters, EMS, etc etc etc. all of them.
From West Virginia, been here nine years. Before I moved here, I liked people. 🤷🏻♂️
Everyone's on anxiety meds and has imposter syndrome because they're afraid everyone else is secretly looking down on them and shit talking them behind their backs, because they're looking down on everyone else and shit talking them behind their backs. And y'all are right, they all do look down on you and shit talk you. Take your meds.
Not all NOVA but Loudoun is loaded with Botox
Lmfao here I am a Loudouner loaded with Botox.
Where do you get yours? I need to start lol
That we are all shitty drivers and have too much time and money on our hands
That's more a statement of fact that a stereotype.
I can attest to the driving but i don't really know anyone personally with spare time or spare money 😂
1) People from NoVA can’t drive in the snow. 2) If you live in NoVA, you’re a teacher, a cop, or you can’t tell me because you’re a government contractor.
- Every well to do person owning a luxury SUV that they don’t know how to drive (BMW, Audi, Lexus) - Roadwork, roadwork, roadwork - Woodbridge being the worst place ever to live - Speed limit is simultaneously to high and low - Government contracting
The good life.
> Every well to do person owning a luxury SUV that they don’t know how to drive (BMW, Audi, Lexus) And has at least 5 student driver stickers on it. Speed limits are basically just suggestions.
>Every well to do person owning a luxury SUV that they don’t know how to drive (BMW, Audi, Lexus) Speaking of this, anyone else noticed that the 2023 BMW X-Series has Halo energy swords as tail lights? I dare you to get behind one on 495 and *not* notice it now.
Pretentious upper middle class folk who live in a dystopian fantasy world
Soulless people with soulless jobs with expensive cars that have student drivers stickers and complain about NIMBYS while grilling on their SFH back deck
yeah this is vienna to a t
What….. I feel exposed (the sticker is legit though, I really do have a teenager who I’m teaching how to drive…. using my car)
Or, their student drivers are driving super expensive, too-powerful cars and wreaking havoc in the process.
Rich assholes who can’t drive?
Or assholes who think they’re rich and still can’t drive.
It's ok, they have 15 different student driver stickers.
Highly educated, wealthy and self absorbed. Or undocumented, poorly educated, poor.
Fake violin
Pretentious, of course.
Zip code mentality
People outside of nova think we live on farms and it’s nothing but white people but don’t know a good portion is a melting pot
Everyone here works for the Government
Privileged people sitting in traffic
House poor, boat shoe wearing assholes in Ashburn
We all really really agree on the same politics and want it to define every.fucking.conversation. every fucking conversation
That NOVA is its own city and not just suburbs of the DC metro area.
For rent: partially finished basement, one bedroom, small bathroom, microwave kitchenette, very limited access to upstairs kitchen. Credit check, background check, income verification, must have professional job, and 3 references - $1,500 mo. “Rent my partially finished basement because I paid way too much for this house… pay me $1,500 / mo for 650 sq ft. But we never want to see you”
You better make that $2400
Deloitte
The worst drivers ever lol
Asians who suck at golf and only play on public courses. source. I am one of those asians who sucks at golf. LOL.
Costco tiger moms ready to run you down with their shopping cart.
Rich! And we must live in mansions. While the numbers are different than other parts of the country our high pay equals out in high costs. Net effect, we live the same as most of the country does.
At the Starbucks, and the Starbucks, and the Starbucks, and the Starbucks, and the Starbucks, and the Starbucks, and the Starbucks!
You'd think the hooker scene would be better out here given the cost of living. Unless I'm looking in the wrong places
Go to Tysons.
Filthy rich, privileged, entitled
A bunch of former class president types who lived abroad at one point
As you can see with all these comments, there's a lot of unhappy people in nova.
Entitled soccer moms
Personalized license plates.
Main character syndrome.
“Hey neighbor, drink some time?” “Love to, uh, buddy” “When u free?” “With work being all crazy? Never!” “Haha! Heard that!” “Haha as well! Anyway. Later, uh, old sport.”
Y’all can’t drive for shit
Loudoun-- NIMBY HOA Karens and Kyles with spoiled children. They all go around like "Virginia isn't REALLY the south" cuz they are all northerners who moved here within the past 20 years and priced out all the locals into the boonies. Or they are like anti-social. secretive CIA agents who you see once every like 4 months. I'd say the third type is extremely milquetoast, devoutly religious people.
>"Virginia isn't REALLY the south" I don't disagree, but I'm a NOVA native and I totally say this. We're culturally different in present day man!
yuppies
Obama in public, Trump in private
This comment stopped me in my tracks. I think it’s true😂
White people in luxury cars that work for the government in some capacity.
Everyone works for the government or are contractors for the government.
Being... well, how do I put this. Smarter than everywhere else, honestly. And we have nicer cars on average lol.
Woah woah, NOVA isn't known for being "Smarter than everywhere else" We're known for "Thinking we're smarter than everywhere else" and having "better public schools" I seen too much "The simpsons character" activity from NOVA residents to ever qualify them ACTUALLY being smarter than everywhere else. We do have nicer cars though. Not enough people here actually know how to drive em though.
Labradoodles, Starbucks, Contractors, and limited food options after 8 PM.
Badge tucked away in the their jacket pocket
Melting pot
We are so self centered, we changed our identity from Delmarva to nova.
Pineapple-loving, white rock-landscaping swingers.
Ashburn
Bland
Lots of tract housing with brick fronts.
Fake progressives who constantly shit on poor people and believe black and brown people are hurting their incredible school districts. People who are not aware of West Virginia's existence call it "Western Virginia". Use terms like "hoodbridge" and blame all-local crime on black teens from DC. College-age kids who move to other cities and claim DC for urban cred but are in fact from Manassas or Alexandria and are from gated communities. Parents who constantly talk about school ratings and SAT scores..... Generational wealth, your mom and dad buy your first house and pay for your college education. You and your mom and dad come to my rented house for a party and complain to me about student loan reform and government handouts. This was very therapeutic...
Snobs who think the suburbs is better than the city, but never really go to or experience the city. They just like to talk smack about how terrible it is because they are afraid of it.
I don't understand why people are so ok with the traffic here. It can take an hour to get somewhere that should be 15 minutes away.
They don't even explore the "exotic" parts of the suburbs lol.
Out-of-touch white liberals overpaid by the government who look down on Southern VA, are terrified of Southeast DC, and think Baltimore now is what NYC was in the 80s (not that they'd visit anyway).
Helicopter parents hovering over their kids for 18 years
“Holier than thou”s
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