app_priori t1_j5sjmjz wrote on January 25, 2023 at 6:44 AM

Reply to comment by TheCaptainDamnIt in Gov. Moore announces his transportation secretary by GovernorOfReddit

The DC sub is very schizophrenic. I've seen people put down posts highlighting the "high crime" but other people being hysterical about it. My theory on the sub's general schizophrenia is because DC attracts transplants from all the country (especially the high strung, high achiever types), it's also bound to attract extreme pearl-clutching types who grew up in the super safe urbane suburbs who never had to deal with the problems of living in a big city (the occasional shooting, package theft, sexual harassment, homeless encampments). When these things happen, it just shocks them to posting hyperbole all over the place at every single little wrong thing they see with the city.

God forbid they even think about moving to a place like Baltimore.

TheCaptainDamnIt t1_j5tthn9 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 3:01 PM

Ha, Yea that’s the same feeling I get when browsing it. In my head it’s As you say very high stung people living in a city for the first time. It’s like a bunch of the sub grew up in the DC suburbs but upper middle class. Another bunch came from the suburbs of some small Midwest city like Tulsa or something and have never seen real city problems. And the rest are leftovers from the last presidential administration. It gets real dog-whistlely in there sometimes.

CaptainObvious110 t1_j5vys3k wrote on January 25, 2023 at 11:03 PM

Can you imagine how it comes across to someone that's actually from there? When chocolate is always being complained about by vanilla? It gets so old real quick and it's why I respond the way I do to it.

These are people that don't know what it's like to go to a school that absolutely sucks. They don't know what it's like to be treated like you don't belong in the very city you grew up in. Or being pushed out of a neighborhood where many of your family members once lived. I experienced that and it really, really sucks.

It's not even about race per se, at least I don't want to think that way even if it's being incredibly naive. I think it's a class issue. They treat DC natives as if they are better than us and that absolutely rubs me the wrong way.\

Here in Baltimore I have met people that are a lot more welcoming and friendly. Ironically enough, I was able to finally find peace despite the awful reputation of this city and that truly makes me smile.

CaptainObvious110 t1_j5vxne4 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 10:54 PM

I am absolutely loving this comment. You are very accurate with the way you describe that subreddit. As someone who was actually born and raised in DC it annoys me when the transplants complain about the city as it is now.

They have no idea how the red carpet has been laid out for them while decades long issues with the native residents continue to go ignored. DC as it is is safer now than it's been in many, many years and they don't get it because they don't know anything about it's history. All they care about is the money that's available for them to make. Once they have satisfied themselves they will be leaving anyway. Unfortunately some of them will end up here.

Frankly, it's very similar here in Baltimore. People move here with no knowledge of the neighborhood they are going to except that it may be trendy and they end up woefully disappointed as a result.

What's so hard about doing a little homework first? Oh wait! That would require initiative and a measure of common sense which sadly is an endangered species these days.

I moved to Baltimore several years ago and made my home here, while I know it has it's warts,bumps, and bruises it also has a lot of charm. Sometimes what shines isn't gold and you have to remember that diamonds are ugly rocks until they are cut the right way, It's all in how you look at it.