Yankee, I have love in my loins for you, but DC sucks. I was forced there in 2005 because, " I had problems." I lived just west of Chantilly. The traffic just sucks in the DC, Northern VA, MD area. It is God-awful. It's everywhere. You can be thirty miles outside the city on some hick-arse road and it's backed-up for miles. Northern Virginia is so cookie cutter. There's no character to any of the towns. There's no Pleasantvilles out there. People are kind of boring. Even the drug addicts are boring. I got loaded at a Hooters in Fairfax around Rt 50. Then I axed the waitress how do I get to SE DC. Her breasts were perfect. Then, I'm on....395? and the 14th ST exit is on the left...and I'm on the right........and I don't know. So I get into a SE neighborhood, and I'm in these projects and nobody was biting. One dude in a pack of homies told me to "F-Off". Jesus, don't DC dudes understand open air commerce.... So then I find my way to Constitution Ave SW and find these project looking place and they aren't biting either. Then the cops pulled me over and gave me an attitude. I kept acting cooler than them because I'm from a cooler area - Jersey and Philly represent. No one would have these problems in Camden or Kensington for God's sakes. I will say that the cops let me go and didn't find my one hitter in my console. I was pretty drunk, too. OMG, I was so bored down there. Leesburg is cool, though. The Kings Cross bar was ok, man. It was ok. Northern Virginia is the nicest big metro area, man. If you like it plain and boring it is the spot for you. And man, I like car rides and all but that drive to OCMD is just so loooooonnnnngggg. It just drags.........even if your high.
^This I've been a silent observer on these forums for quite some time now, but figured I'd finally make a post, as this directly relates to me. I agree with the post from yankee through and through. I moved up here last May after spending several years along the Outer Banks, coupled with CR in the off-season. Boy was I spoiled. Got a good opportunity to generate some revenue in these parts and made the transition into the "real-world". Now I'm itching to make the transition back out of the "real-world". Living this far from the coast is brutal, but Ocean City, and that whole area, actually surprised me with how fun it can get. Fortunately, it seems a good portion of the fun swells over the past year or so have fallen on the weekends (tomorrow??), but nothing beats being able to get wet everyday. I know there's a DC Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, but I checked out their page and it looks like they mostly SUP on the Potomac. Anyone know any details about them? Well, I don't really know what the point of where I'm going with this, but if you live in DC and see a dude in an old green jeep with a WRV sticker or two, feel free to say what's up
Lol I was just kidding. I love the redskins and it's fun to party in but that's about it. Freaking blows being so far from the ocean
Living here you need to find other pass-times to keep you sane (biking, kayaking, rock climbing, skating etc). Nothing is like surfing, but making the 3 hr drive every couple of months isn't that bad, just super hard when you have a family (with little kids). Growing up here and then living by the coast for a decade I know both worlds. If DC was on the coast or within an hour it would be the best place to live, but the work scene/stability is hard to beat, and why I moved back. Gained a new respect for it after coming back, lots to do and see. If you are young and single there are lots of very smart and good looking people. There is more to life than surfing every day even though we all wish we could. Hope to get some birthday barrels tomorrow in OC!
HAHAHAHAHAHAH Chantilly? Chantilly is not DC. Its the the middle of nowhere Virginia, and yeah it does suck there. I cant believe you came on here talking **** about DC and didnt even live within 45 mins of the city. You had to move to the DC area, and chose Chantilly? WOW you are a clown
I moved from Orlando to Southern Maryland 13 years ago and I don't care if you live in DC or 20 miles south like I do it still sucks. I make the drive to the coast whenever I can and would live there if work didn't suck me in here and the housing market didn't crash making me stuck here. I'm just happy I'm healthy enough to surf and live at a location where it's possible....
That's a good line, imagine if circumstances forced you to live somewhere like North Dakota, probably not too many waves around those parts.
A$$ Jack, I didn't decide to move there, I got hijacked. Like, kind of forced to. "I had problems." Chantilly isn't in the middle of nowhere. It's a freakin congested suburb of DC, and it's closer than 45 minutes away. Well, it should be closer than 45 minutes away, but then there's that traffic thang. Dude, work on your reading comprehension skills. I didn't choose Chantilly, it chose me If you think Chantilly is in the middle of nowhere then you might be retarded, or just not know what you is be talking aboot. Dude, it's a straight shot down Rt 50 from DC/Alexandria and all that shat. The traffic in Chantilly is worse than it is in Philadelphia......sort of. Middle of nowhere? Where did you come up with that one? DC sucks as a town, too. Yeah, it must have been fun during the 1980's crack epidemic, when people where shooting the blocks up, but now it is a poster child for Gentrification. Jesus, I couldn't even find dope there. Oh, I know it was there, but Good Lord...........I later heard the 14th St. area or the area where Georgetown starts to blend in with the city or MLK Blvd. I spent 9 months there. Got hired for two accounting jobs, but lost both when they eventually got around to running a background check. Man, that's right at the time when all these businesses started doing that stuff. I thought it was just a formality, and they wouldn't check. So, yes, I lied during the application process. Yes, I had been convicted of a crime in the past 7-10 years. Then I got fired. It was a good thing, though because I hated those jobs. I was supposed to move to Canada with a Canadian women, part of the reason I left Jersey - to keep me away from 6th & Bailey in Camden. But I kept drinking and started getting weird. I eventually just took a pizza delivery gig in Stone Ridge at Vocelli Pizza, and got aquainted with the " COTTON KIDS" of Manassas, VA. Cotton as in Oxcy. So, I started dabbling again with the Contin. Jesus, $80 for a green(80mg). Dang they was $25 to $40 in Philly. And yeah, the move that was supposed to tame me didn't, as I became the coolest person in Northern Virginia by far. Ha, later in the game I took Matt to Camden one night. Ha ha he was so scared of the North Camden. Terrified. But Northern Virginia scares easily. Yes, I talk sh!t aboot DC. The place is boring as heck. Oh yeah, it's cool if you are a yuppie intent on all the normal superficial things in life, but that ain't me. Yes, I lived twenty-something miles away, but I went there so, I know aboot the place. Yeah, if you are some upwardly mobile type I guess you can enjoy the place. But as far as major cities go, it's boring. It has no character of it's own except for those with political or business headquarters intentions. Yeah, there is some good food in the area. I hear Prince George's County in Maryland is a fun place. EVERY CORPORATION HAS TO HAVE A PLACE IN DC no matter where their home office be. Lobbying, man, lobbying man. The one thing I did find interesting aboot the place is that you never knew who was in the car next to you on 495...........a CIA spook........some damn foreign diplomat...........Mitch McConnell......... I'm way better than you - don't ever call me a "clown" again.
Jeez, lighten up Steamy Ray Francis. Or maybe run for Chantilly board member, they'd love a guy like you going to war for a place like that. You stuck in traffic on the Beltway....again....? Chantilly is in no way, shape or form 'DC.' Never was, never will be. It's exurban sprawl. It's Manasshole with higher priced McMansions. It's the definition of 'placelessness.' Nothing personal, Steamboat, but Chantilly is malls, housewives & movie theatres, oh, and big box stores, plus all the traffic you can handle because it's impossible to walk anywhere. Plenty of bulkasaurus women there, too, once they barge past age 30 or so. Leesburg...?? If you don't ride horses or you don't like fat biker chicks in the summertime, then why Leesburg...? Actually, come to think about it, sometimes it's guys mistaking the fat biker chicks for horses that is cause for excitement in Leesburg. I'm not picking on you, and you won't hear me label you a clown. Chantilly, though.....really??
"Chantilly, though.....really...." What the F are you people talking aboot? You guys are talking aboot the DC area. Chantilly is in the DC area. So what is wrong with you people? I'm not defending Chantilly. Where in the heck are you getting that idea from? I have absolutely no love for the area. The only cool thing was that Northern Virginia people were putty in the hands of a Jersey G Boy. Friggin putty. Where are you people coming up with this stuff? Of course I'm not getting offended by any Chantilly slams. I just corrected IWBTY's false picture he painted of the place being in the West Virginia woods. I never said Chantilly was DC. It was just my home base for my most detailed Northern Virginia/DC/Maryland excursion. Some years prior, I worked for a healthcare consulting firm in Jersey that had clients scattered aboot the DC area. So yes, I have been drunk wandering around Wisconsin Ave. I said I lived in Chantilly. I didn't say that I based my opinion of DC on Chantilly. I didn't say I thought Chantilly is DC. I got around when I lived down there. I didn't just sit in Chantilly, and assume the whole DC area was Chantilly. I'm the quintessential east coast mother trucker. I have experiences from Frisco to Kennebunk. Involved experiences, not just passing through. DC sucks. 4th & V (NW) St sucks. The White House sucks. Constitution Ave SW sucks. Falls Church sucks Inova sucks. The waitress at the Hooters in Fairfax was friggin awesome, though. And I'm in no way in need of lightening-up. I'm not in any way shape or form upset. Why would you think I'm upset ?? And why in the world would you think I have feelings for Chantilly, VA. It ain't my home......never was my "home." I would never live in that area. My time there was all aboot a special set of circumstances and was just a temporary thing. I never planned on living there. I got out as soon as possible.
No you have that confused with my song aboot Centerville. Yankee how's my hating this evening? AM I doing good?
I don't really care about whether Chantilly is DC or not but.... Chantilly and the surrounding area SUCK!! I have to go there for 6 days every year and hate the place from the time I arrive until it fades in my rearview a few days later. I feel better now. Thanks for reading.
