No. VA dopers

[Meatros]

I've been looking at some of the locations dopers are from and I've seen quite a few from Northern Virginia. So I just wanted a general showing to see how many Virginia dopers there are.





I'm from N. Va myself (of course)


And so it begins....:D

[Mr. Moto]

Lake Ridge, though I grew up in Pittsburgh. I work in Crystal City.

[Jonathan Chance]

Speaking.

What you really want is a count-off of all the MADs (Mid-Atlantic Dopers). We have from DC, Baltimore, Delaware, Richmond, and all over. There's quite a few.

[plnnr]

One-half the Richmond contingent checking in. Hamadryad is the other half (IIRC).

[Geobabe]

Not a MAD any more, but I still check in from time to time. Up until very recently, I lived in Fair Lakes. I'm in Havana...er, I mean Miami, now.

[Jman]

I'm not a northern Virginian, and I don't even consider myself a Virginian (I'm an Ohioan with upstate NY transplant status), but I live in Newport News for the time being.

Jman

[Lute Skywatcher]

I'm not from here but Arlington has been my home for 14 years, except for a few months when I was sharing an apartment near Landmark.

[Ferrous]

I'm a former NoVa resident (Reston), now a confirmed westerner. Although I go back for a visit most years, usually around the holidays.

My brother Lectricity lives in Vienna, VA. But he doesn't post very often. He didn't get hooked like I did.

[ultrafilter]

Me too.

[medstar]

I live in Alexandria City, and I work in Crystal City. I was born in Norfolk, VA and I grew up in Springfield, VA. Except for 5 years in Northern California in the late '80's, I've lived in Northern Virginia my whole life. Do I win anything?

[RTFirefly]

Excepting winters away at college and similar brief interludes, I lived in northern Virginia (specifically, in the Mt. Vernon/Fort Hunt area of Fairfax County, just south of Alexandria) from June, 1960 through December, 1982. I've also lived for five years in Bristol, VA (far southwest VA, on the TN border), three years in Newport News, two years in Charlottesville, where I got a Master's at a certain university there, and six months in Bleaksb...er, Blacksburg. ;)

I've lived in southern Maryland for the past four years, and will probably live here for the next two or three decades, but I still consider myself a Virginia expat. :)

[Neidhart]

I've lived in Vienna since I was 6 - and in Pimmit Hills for three years before that.

Trying to save up to move to Chicago, but that's rather difficult with no income. :)

[monica]

Virginia Beach

[YEP]

Hampton Roads.

[Yossarian]

Do I count as a MAD?

This, of course, has nothing to do with No. VA, but since some SE VA folks chimed in, I thought that I'd ask this question anyway!

[Jonathan Chance]

Hell yes!

I, being the man who coined the term, officially declare Pantellerite a MAD, if only because that's a damn cool username.

And North Carolina gets the job done. I salute you!

Nate

[ChiefScott]

Hampton, Va.

[BF]

VA Beach since my squiddly days, basically raised in NoVA. (G-F High School alum).

[False_God]

Arlington checking in. Specifically, Pentagon City since '99.

I'll be leaving in March for Sri Lanka, and I don't know when I'll be rotated back, but it'll be at least four years from now.

[Jonathan Chance]

State Department? USAID? Or Mil?

[Yossarian]

Thanks, JC: then MAD I am and proud of it.

This corner of NC seems more like a rural appendage of the Hampton Roads area, anyway!

[Benanuel]

the booming metropolis of Dumfries, VA where it's been all downhill since 1769.

[False_God]

Originally posted by Jonathan Chance
State Department? USAID? Or Mil?

State Department. Nominally Consular Affairs, but they're sending me to do a political officer job. Should be fun, what with the twenty-year civil war and 35000 landmines.

Now back to your regularly scheduled thread.

[GingerOfTheNorth]

MADs checking in, but I've only been to Virginia twice. Both for very short periods of time. Weirddave and I reside in Havre de Grace, MD.

[iampunha]

Vienna, VA ... actually like half a mile from Neidhart.

[aramis]

Grew up in Vermont, living in NoVa now.

[aramis]

Grew up in Vermont, living in NoVa now.

[FairyChatMom]

We lived in King George, VA for 3 years (20 miles east of Fredericksburg) - I miss that area so much! I'll be a MAD in about 2 years (actually 22 months) - living a bit south of RTF in beautiful California, MD.

Counting the days till I can leave the hell that is northeast Florida...

[OpalCat]

Centreville, VA here

Born and put in 25 years of hard time in Tucson, AZ

[Hamadryad]

Yeah, Richmonder checking in. There are a couple of other Richmond-area Dopers, but I've only met one of 'em and he's going to school in another state now. I think for the most part we don't like to admit we're from Richmond...not as cool as the NoVaDopers, and not as laid-back as the Hampton Roads (Hampton, Norfolk, Newport News) people. :D

[chique]

I wish I'd have known you guys when I was in DC :(

[Winnie]

Another soul from Centreville, VA. A native of 26 years, unfortunately.

[Triskadecamus]

Born here. Second generation northern Virginian. My son is the third Generation, and he occasionally posts too.

Tris

[Olentzero]

Vermonter by birth, raised in New Hampshire. DC/NoVA since 1993. Currently in South Arlington. South AL, fool! What?

[Meatros]

You know, I went to Chantilly and we had a term for people of the "Centreville" area...I won't repeat it here though...;)

[Winnie]

Originally posted by Meatros
You know, I went to Chantilly and we had a term for people of the "Centreville" area...I won't repeat it here though...;)

Oh, come on! As a lifer of the "Ville" there isn't much that offends me about it anymore... :)

[Civil Defense]

Richmond doper checking in... though, for the time being, I'm in Charlottesville attending aforementioned University. :)

And I'm quite proud of my Richmond status.

[Triskadecamus]

A lifetime? Wow, I remember when Centreville was an intersection with a gas station, and a really sleazy pool hall that excluded women and beatnics.

Tris

[An Arky]

Arlington...been in this area for 13 years, but I was born and raised in Arkansas, as my handle suggests.

Yes, I wear shoes...

[/\/\etalhea|)]

Roanoke checking in, I'd be willing to drive up maybe.

Go Hokies!

LSU - Fear the Turkey!

[TheOtherOne]

One more Richmond doper. Chesterfield county actually, but a stones throw from the great city.

[Johanna]

Ohio born and bred, but living in Fairfax County for going on 11 years now.

WE MISS YOU, GEOBABE!!!

[malden]

I oughta check MPSIMS more often...

Another Arlington resident here. I live near the Cinema 'n' Drafthouse, @ Walter Reed & Columbia Pike.

From age 8 until college I lived in Vienna, and I still go to church there. Neidhart, did you go to Madison???

[Lucretia]

More MADs here...Bluesman and I live in Ft. Meade, MD., for the past 3 years, and for about 9 more months.

[Jonathan Chance]

Oh yeah?

NoVa Dopers? Who likes parties? (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=134744)

[Geobabe]

Originally posted by Jomo Mojo
WE MISS YOU, GEOBABE!!! Awwwww! I miss you guys too. I'll be back for a visit soon, promise.

[Molly Coddle]

Spotsylvania, Virginia here..only I am trapped in boarding school in PA..:smack:

[gus28]

Born and raised in Chesapeake, but I live in P-Town now.

[Neidhart]

Neidhart, did you go to Madison???

nope, Oakton for my freshman and sophomore years and Cedar Lane Center for the rest.

(But I'm all better now.

I think. :D )

[Naz]

I'm from SW Virginia. Christiansburg, about 30 or 40 minutes from Virginia Tech. Unfortunately, however, I'm currently trapped in Arkansas. I hate it here....