lulu belle
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This is my acronym, SHUWT (we can pronounce it like shoot) Stuck Here Until We Transfer, or SMIP, Southern Maryland ImPlants
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punchbuggy
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I'm not from here and only came to S.MD to raise our children hearing the schools were good. They are but.....once the last one graduates - we're outta here. Only because it is getting so built up and we liked it "country". Miss seeing the Mom & Pop stores and small town touches. The people are great! Unfortunately, this is happening everywhere so we'll have to find the "sticks" someplace else. Tired of seeing the new cookie cutter McMansions everywhere. Traffic bites....times have changed. 
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AndyMarquisLIVE
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If you want a country lifestyle, move to Calvert County.I'm not from here and only came to S.MD to raise our children hearing the schools were good. They are but.....once the last one graduates - we're outta here. Only because it is getting so built up and we liked it "country". Miss seeing the Mom & Pop stores and small town touches. The people are great! Unfortunately, this is happening everywhere so we'll have to find the "sticks" someplace else. Tired of seeing the new cookie cutter McMansions everywhere. Traffic bites....times have changed.
AndyMarquisLIVE
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I would say the same, but it looks like I'm stuck with having to move to Calvert County. I'll take Waldorf over Lusby anyday.
yankee44
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I am an implant. But like (no Love) the area. I personaly think that there is too much development going on.
I am from Upstate New York and grew up in the country. We had 3 towns put togather to make up my High School and still only graduated 24.
This is one of the few places that I have lived that kind of reminds me of home. The way the people are willing to give a helping hand when you need one. These people for the most part are the ones that were born and raised here.
I have one thing to say to the people that moved here and dont like it.......RT 235 and RT 4 have North bound lanes use them!!!!!!!
I am from Upstate New York and grew up in the country. We had 3 towns put togather to make up my High School and still only graduated 24.
This is one of the few places that I have lived that kind of reminds me of home. The way the people are willing to give a helping hand when you need one. These people for the most part are the ones that were born and raised here.
I have one thing to say to the people that moved here and dont like it.......RT 235 and RT 4 have North bound lanes use them!!!!!!!
lulu belle
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I'm not from here and only came to S.MD to raise our children hearing the schools were good. They are but.....once the last one graduates - we're outta here. Only because it is getting so built up and we liked it "country". Miss seeing the Mom & Pop stores and small town touches. The people are great! Unfortunately, this is happening everywhere so we'll have to find the "sticks" someplace else. Tired of seeing the new cookie cutter McMansions everywhere. Traffic bites....times have changed.
I first came to this area in '05, so it was already "built up" enough, but I see more growing all the time (just like my area back home in PA), I can understand missing the small-ness. I wish I had seen this area before too much came...
BOP
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Where else do they take a ham and roll it around the yard to pick up the grass clippings?
Does that count as eating your vegetables? I've eaten greens before, and smoked grass (but did not inhale), but never eaten green grass.
thurley42
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I have one thing to say to the people that moved here and dont like it.......RT 235 and RT 4 have North bound lanes use them!!!!!!!
yeah..i love when people say that...if that happened...if the base and everyone packed up and left this place would be a ghost town, the economy would fall through the floor and no one would have a job, and this place would be worth diddly squat...
I'm sure there are some people who wouldn't mind it, but the vast majority would mind very much so. Like someone said earlier about people not forced to sell their land for the almighty dollar, most people born and raised here had no problem taking high paying jobs for civil service/contractors. They have zero room to complain.
That being said don't get me wrong, i came here in 98 and have loved it since the day I got here. Sure the traffic is a lot worse, but at least I don't have to drive all the way to Annapolis to go to Best Buy anymore....or we have a Target so we don't have to deal with Wal Mart...
BOP
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Your idea of culture is FM radio?
In Okla-by gawd-lahoma, culture for us poor folk involved driving up and down the main drag, sitting on the hoods of our cars, drinking beer and watching people drive up and down the main drag.
'course, that was back when gas was less than a dollar a gallon.
Naturally, there were plenty of other things to do on a Friday and Saturday night.
Did I mention titty-bars?
Most sports in Oklahoma involve drinking. It's even more fun when the competitors are imbibing as well.
Did I mention titty-bars?
yankee44
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I said the people that DONT LIKE IT HERE belive me when I say that there are many many people that love the area standing in line to take those jobs!!!
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amotley
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You all have culture here? Who knew?
Get the local radio station to lose the '80s hair band play list, and maybe we can revisit the whole idea of culture.
local radio ???? they still have that?? who knew, heck i have sirus. i am an implant and i love the area! i was rasied in pg county moved to va for 11 years and when i moved back i picked calvert. wish i would have listened to the hubby and looked in st marys. either way i love the area, those that dont, move somewhere and if your only here for military or work you dont have to stay long just make the best of it, keep it clean and friendly then move on until you find a place to call home!
SMUT (SOUTHERN MARYLAND UNHAPPY TRANSFERS) lol for the ones that dont like it here
can you see the signs Welcome SMUT
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amyinmd
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I grew up in NYC(Greenpoint area) and still have family there. You could not pay me to move back there now that I have children. I remember when we first moved to Charlotte Hall want watching my neighbor leave his riding lawn mower in his front yard while he got in the car and drove off. Growing up everything was stolen that wasn't nailed down on our front stoop. My family comes down and would love to move here.
I just don't get all the complaining and whinning from people who move to the county than complain because they don't have a resturant on every corner. I love the county life for my kids and their school (White Marsh) is amazing. Is St Mary's Co perfect? No...but those of you who complain..didn't you drive around with a realator and see where you were moving??The road to St Mary's Co goes both ways...don't move to the country than complain because you want the city. I thank God I will be able to raise my children here and not where I spent the first 18 years of my life.
I just don't get all the complaining and whinning from people who move to the county than complain because they don't have a resturant on every corner. I love the county life for my kids and their school (White Marsh) is amazing. Is St Mary's Co perfect? No...but those of you who complain..didn't you drive around with a realator and see where you were moving??The road to St Mary's Co goes both ways...don't move to the country than complain because you want the city. I thank God I will be able to raise my children here and not where I spent the first 18 years of my life.
annoyance
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Would you pronounce that as oot-kick, oo-tick or oot-****?
greyhound
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If you want a country lifestyle, move to Calvert County.
Don't encourage people to move to Calvert....
G1G4
Find em Hot, Leave em Wet
Got my vote.
smilin
BOXER NATION
Interesting to note that most of the complainers/whiners are the transplants. It used to be nicer here before the "Base" became "Pax River" - and spoken about in such reverent tones.
Yup it was terrible sitting around having a beer, eating crabs and oysters in a clean environment. Believe it or not there where even a few jobs down here. Not as many people, but sometimes that's a good thing. Can't turn the clock back, but it sure is nice to remember another time.
I believe the opposite of a SMIB should be "transplant" as in medical transplants, where the rejection rate is very high.
Yup it was terrible sitting around having a beer, eating crabs and oysters in a clean environment. Believe it or not there where even a few jobs down here. Not as many people, but sometimes that's a good thing. Can't turn the clock back, but it sure is nice to remember another time.
I believe the opposite of a SMIB should be "transplant" as in medical transplants, where the rejection rate is very high.
ImnoMensa
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Its not so much that we dont want outsiders, its the attitude that many get after they come here.
Many transfer in for the jobs, then they dont like our country atmosphere, its not our fault your job or your military transfer brought you here.Think how lucky you are. You could have been sent to Alaska.
We think its pretty nice here. We dont get earthquakes and Fires like in California, We seldom get hurricanes and floods like Louissianna or Florida, we seldom get tornadoes like the Midwest, we might get a summer drought,but the next year it rains. In fact when it comes to natural disasters we are off the beaten path. We have 4 seasons might get just enough snow to let the kids go sleighing, we dont get frozen in. The leaves are pretty in the fall and its a short trip to mountains, beaches, hunting area's most anything we care to do.
Now as far as Aps rolling his ham around in the grass to pick up yard clippings that isnt the best way to stuff a ham. I will be happy to show him the approved method. Its a lot of work.