# No. VA dopers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2002, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804 "2002-08-27T18:01:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/1 "2002-08-27T18:01:10Z")
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…😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/2 "2002-08-27T18:42:22Z")
Lake Ridge, though I grew up in Pittsburgh. I work in Crystal City. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/3 "2002-08-27T18:45:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/4 "2002-08-27T18:57:59Z")
One-half the Richmond contingent checking in. Hamadryad is the other half (IIRC). ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/5 "2002-08-27T20:15:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/6 "2002-08-27T20:29:09Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/7 "2002-08-27T20:35:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/8 "2002-08-27T21:06:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/9 "2002-08-27T23:53:05Z")
Me too. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/10 "2002-08-28T00:19:36Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/11 "2002-08-28T01:43:51Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/12 "2002-08-28T02:10:31Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/13 "2002-08-28T03:07:51Z")
Virginia Beach ---
**Author:** ![YEP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/43a26b/32.png) [@YEP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YEP)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/14 "2002-08-28T11:26:30Z")
Hampton Roads. ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/15 "2002-08-28T12:14:34Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/16 "2002-08-28T12:17:21Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/17 "2002-08-28T12:27:40Z")
Hampton, Va. ---
**Author:** ![BF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@BF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BF)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/18 "2002-08-28T13:02:55Z")
VA Beach since my squiddly days, basically raised in NoVA. (G-F High School alum). ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/19 "2002-08-28T13:23:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804/20 "2002-08-28T13:26:30Z")
State Department? USAID? Or Mil? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-va-dopers/125804.md?page=2)