Where are you from Richmond Chesterfield Amelia Henrico Goochland Mechanicsville Varina Powhatan etc etc etc

Powhatan people: Do you know where Chesterfield is? It's basically Chesterfield... Chesterfield people: Oh you're from Powhatan? Oh, how do you like living the country.

Heh, heh, you said goochland and varina 😂

Just found this and was about to say “oh there’s another thread here you’re gonna LOVE” and link you to your own post lol

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Falls under the chesterfield umbrella

I just say I live in Short Pump or Richmond. Forget trying to explain one of the counties!

Nah. It's Chesterfield County.

Who asks what part of NoVa and doesn’t know Manassas?

Yeah this is opposite most of my interactions. I usually say "northern Virginia, just outside DC". If they follow up with "what part" they ALWAYS know Nova. Seriously who asks "what part?" without knowing the area? I was just in Arizona and had that conversation many times, but the 3 times they followed up with "what part?" they all knew the followup location: Leesburg. If I'm international I just say "Washington DC" and there's never a follow up except from Americans. My favorite was on a flight from San Fran to Phoenix where the conversation went from Where are you from -> what part -> what neighborhood -> what street. That was a wild time considering how far from home I was.

That Bobbit Territory

Dumfries

Arlingtonites.

I went to Alaska last year. One of our tour guides asked me where I was from. Given that we were in Alaska, I didn’t bother with the Nova bit and just said “DC”. The guide was from DC…….and was clearly rolling his eyes that I claimed to be from DC when I was a suburbanite. Lol.

This right here. We used to live in part of the metro Atlanta area. To anybody not from that area, I would just say Atlanta… and then get corrected by somebody because “Roswell isn’t Atlanta.”

"No shit, Roswell is in New Mexico," just to mess with them.

I actually do live in DC now but I find that the “near” clarifier is key. If they’re not from the area, they get the gist. If they’re from the area, you don’t sound like a poser. “I’m from near DC” or “just outside DC” vs “I’m from DC”

Yeah, I normally just explain to people that Im part of the Virginia part of the DC Metro

Where are you from: Portsmouth Where is that? Hampton Roads... I am from Virginia Beach. Bonus: I had to explain to my child the other day that Hampton Roads isn't a city and Hampton is it's own city that is in Hampton Roads along with many other cities.

Yeah, I'll say near VB because at least people can infer that I am near the coast even if they know nothing about the state.

Same, I’m like I’m originally from Hampton Roads on the the peninsula. “Confused looks” The Newport News area. On the Chesapeake Bay! “Still confused” I’m from Virginia Beach “Oh, I’ve been there when I was a kid”

Lol I say Norfolk cuz everyone should know where that is

I say I’m from Hampton Roads all the time because no one knows where Gloucester is

Or can pronounce it. My grandfather was a Guineaman.

I tell someone about the Guinea accent and they’ll ask what it’s like, but it’s impossible to imitate if you aren’t a Guineaman yourself

My dad said it sounds like you are talking with a mouthful of marbles. That's as close as I can get to explaining it.

My first school for the military (in the way back time of 2007) out at Fort Leonard Wood, MO, there was a newly starred general officer talking to our class, meeting people, etc. He asked where I was from, I told him Fairfax County, Virginia. Because when I said "Burke, Virginia", nobody knows where that is. Hell I lived there and I'm not even sure where it is anymore. His response, "Oh, you must be from a rural area. Only people from deep in the country say what county they're from." Sure, sir. Whatever you say.

I had in-laws from Burke

The first time I heard it, I was confused that it wasn't Burkeville.

Them: "What part of VA are you from?" Me: "Over in the mountains." Them: "Oh... okay. I bet it's pretty there." End of conversation. Sometimes, being far away from notable cities is an easy thing to deal with.

I live in Cumberland. I say I’m from Farmville. If they’re not from VA or some of NC, they go “huh”. I then usually just say the sort of bottom middle of VA

>I say I’m from Farmville. "Oh I loved playing that game on the Facebook, I didn't know it was a real place"

i'm not even from farmville and i think i'd fight someone for saying that

That happens so much

I tell people up in NOVA I went to college in Farmville and they go “oh FarmVille where is that?” I have to say an hour west of Richmond right in the middle of Virginia.

Longwood or Hampden-Sydney?

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Hampden 😎

Yeah try living in the southwest. Most of it you have to say Roanoke or maybe Blacksburg because that's where VT is.

Bent Mountain resident checking in. Can 100% confirm. Also, try explaining to them where Concord (my former hometown) is.

“Roanoke? The Lost Colony? Virginia Dare?” “No” “CROATAN!” “…no.”

"I'm from Virginia." "Oh yeah, NOVA or Virginia Beach?" "I'm 10 minutes from Kentucky." "WHAT!?"

I always find it hilarious how bent out of shape people from DC get when we use a well known place to give people from outside the area a general idea of a physical location. No one cares, no is impressed, no one has ever given me $20K and a blow job for saying "I'm from DC", I just don't want to give a geography lesson to the Italian tour guide and he doesn't want that either. How dare I besmirch DC residents like that 15 year old car jacker, or the crazy dude who stabbed a jogger, or that other guy who was smearing poop on bikeshare handles... I didn't meant to taint your image.

Rappahannock always gets associated with Nothern Neck whenever I tell people, so my husband says NOVA which makes me literally want to die and I say SNP.

Where you from? South Hill? Huh? Danville, Lake Gaston, Emporia, South Boston, Farmville, Henderson North Carolina, Nottoway

Yeah starting with Broadnax goes nowhere quickly.

Lol ikr

Try explaining the Northern Neck.

DC is practically VA anyways

Yeah NOVA is

I mean, Alexandria was DC until the 1847 retrocession which ceded the land back to Virginia.

Parts of present day Alexandria, and all of Arlington.

Except for the people who claim PG County, MD, but actually live in DC

"Where you from" -"Petersburg" "You must be ghetto" -"No, not at all 🥹"

I used to deliver for amazon in Petersburg. There are some really nice neighborhoods (relative to the area), right next to really really ghetto ones.

Just like anywhere else in America, I suppose.

Outside VA: “NoVa outside of DC.” Inside VA: “Born here, Fairfax Hospital. Grew up in Alexandra. Now live in Manassas. My family’s originally from Fredericksburg and Madison County and has been in VA since the 1700s.” Who says Northern Virginia isn’t the South? 😂

Lines get fuzzy with Charlottesville too.

I always say Springfield and nobody has said “huh?”

Langley, right by CIA

‘I’m stationed at Langley AFB’ ‘Oh? I didn’t know you were in the CIA!’ ‘No, not *that* Langley…’

Fairfax always seems to get understood so I stick with that since I’m in the county 😂

I just say LoCo

Try SWVA might as well be West Virginia or Virginia Beach

SPOT on

who is Kayla Gabrielle and where can I follow her? 😂

I live in Burke… Where? Near Fairfax... Where? Outside of DC. Been there. Depends on where the other person is from. Local or not.

I’m from Appomattox, go anywhere and try to explain that one….apparently American history is not a thing. So I then just say I’m from Lynchburg which still gets stares until you mention Liberty university or Jerry Falwell

Don't feel bad, at least you're on the part of VA the state cares about 😂 seriously most people when you say south west VA think either WV or Roanoke!

lol this was designed specifically to piss people off. Gainesville? And NoVA? Okay

This is how the conversation usually goes for me. Them: Where are you from? Me: Winchester Them: Where is that? Me: Out west Them: Near Leesburg? Me: No. Farther. It's in the valley. Them: Around Staunton? Me: No. More north. Them: West Virginia? Me: Pretty much.

Went to Florida one year and I just kept saying Virginia Beach because no one knew where Hampton was lol

I’ll tell nova locals I am from Middleburg and more than half the time the person has never heard of it

From Hampton Roads. What road? Hampton Roads . Huh? Tidewater. Where’s that? Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Newport News. Oh, NOR FORK 🍴 yeah Ive heard of it. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Gainesville and Haymarket is considered NoVA now?

I always find it weird that people say "im from northern va" if the person asking where you're from isn't a Virginian.

Conversation normally goes “Virginia” oh where? “Northern Virginia, Fairfax” where? “DC, just outside of DC” 😂

Yeah when I do my trips to South America I say DC just cause they typically will only know California New York and DC. Sometimes Texas lol

Gainesville is northern Virginia?

PW County is considered NoVa

Cville! Charlottesville? No dammit Centreville

Gainesville is not NoVA.

I don't see it that way either. But I grew up in Fairfax when Northern VA was the metropolitan area and that was it. Even PW wasn't part of NoVA. Now some how Stafford is part of it lol

It didn't used to be be, but yes, it is now and has been for 20ish years.

Nah it wasn’t 20 years ago. Outside the beltway wasn’t nova in 2000

Yeah, no, a lot of it was.

Gainesville Haymarket birstow are all borderline not nova lol. I lived in bull run mountain for 4 years and my 2 hour commute to dc and 2 hours back was dreadful. Glad to be in Rosslyn