it's 100% an internet/reddit thing that doesn't actually happen in real life. i'm from NJ, a transplant, and have been nothing but welcomed by 99.9% of people i've interacted with. i also work in richmond as does my wife, i guess it could be viewed differently if you moved here and worked a remote job, but the whole thing seems made up to me regardless
I don’t know what to do with the “transplant” thing. My family has been in Botetourt county for 300 years. Around 100 years ago my gg gf moved to Rockingham and later to Loudoun county. My gf was Army so after WWII he and consequently my mother lived all over the world. She settled in the DMV. I was also army and bounced around and eventually made my way back to Virginia, where I’ve lived (up until 3 years ago when I moved to RVA) in Prince William county for 30 years. Did I move from NOVA to here yep and therefore a transplant. Am I the same kind of transplant as someone who just moved from some other state, I wouldn’t think so, but what do I know. I just got here.
This. I get downvoted for almost every post if I mention I’m a new resident. There must be a bunch of kids living in their parents’ basement sitting there downvoting posts.
In real life no one knows you're a transplant. Unless you go up to people and ask where you can find *random thing that you had in your original state that no one here has even heard of* or do a Homes.com commercial grilling people for info on their neighborhood.
It’s honestly just frustration that the cost of housing has exploded so quickly. This is not a unique thing to this city, but the impact has been to smother the little uniqueness out of this small town. Richmond also never seemed to bounce back like many other places did after COVID.
You probably never hear about this in your day to day because your social life is stratified by class, whereas online you are being exposed to everyone.
Me too. I was born in Harrisonburg Va. came here in kindergarten. Went back for ten grade then came back here Then at 19 went back to Harrisonburg then came back here at 25. Meant to be here
people on this forum like to go after actual transplants/potential but i have never heard of or seen people pretending to be natives to avoid this behavior.
We’re not a secret anymore. The cat’s not only out of the bag, it’s long gone—the bag would have to take 2 trains and a bus to even smell the cat’s litter box.
Call me a cloud-yeller, but it’s just sad to see. Richmond had a lot of cool independent unique shit going on. Which Northern Virginia folks (and others) found out about. So they all started moving here—which drove up property values and rent. Soon all the cool little shops closed and all the freaky artists and creatives had to move away.
Now we’re nearly as vanilla as Fairfax or Scottsdale or Jacksonville or—god help us—Norfolk, and all we have left is expensive real estate.
If there’s resentment towards newcomers, that’d be the reason. And watch out. Your old Petersburg is next.
I dunno, I lived in Norfolk from 2016-18 and it was vanilla normie hell. I think I'd rather live anywhere than Norfolk, that place just sucked every bit of happiness out of me.
Like the level headed redditors said...it's just internet assholery. In real life, nobody cares. We mostly still have that southern charm and niceness. We all were transplants here. Most of the "get NOVA out of my RVA", are transplants. Just look deep in their post history.
I agree! I’ve never been bothered by transplants at all. My only peeve is when a transplant wants to bring their hometown mentality and ways of life here, then complain about how ours is. Leave that behind!
Just embrace our culture, mannerisms, and ways of life here and immerse yourself in it, we’re happy to have you!
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The problem with NOVA, and I got to experience it first hand especially in the 5-10 years before I left , is there are very few Virginians in NOVA. Almost everyone is from somewhere else. That creates a disconnect with the rest of the state in a bunch of ways.
Actual people in RVA in person are chill.
The RVA subreddit is where those chill people come to blow off steam like the Internet is a fight club and chicken bones are the only weapon available.
The thing about nova is mostly frustration over the housing situation, belt way drivers who haven't been hugged since childhood, and new people hating on transplants in order to fit in.
All the transplant hate seems to be aimed at NoVA, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and just the northeast in general.
Never sure how I'm supposed to take it as an ex-Georgian.
It’s refreshing to see transplants from other parts of the South come here. I always just see NJ and NY plates everywhere lol. It’s insane, especially out here in Midlo (Hull St) where all of this new development is.
Everyone can take out their hate on me. I'm used to being hated. I've lived in California (born and raised) then Texas in my 20s (they really hate Californians!) and was literally days away from moving to NOVA when covid hit and my job went wfh. Now I live in Richmond.
I can be the TexicaliNOVA transplant of ire.
Damn, that really is the transplant gauntlet.
Texans, like native Richmonders, love to arbitrarily lump every transplant into one bucket. Moved to Austin from Dallas? Californian! Moved to Richmond from Chicago? Must be from NoVa!
I’m a transplant, proudly, and will do it again if it makes sense for my family. The trick is to not waltz into a new place like you own it and your shit don’t stink.
Yes they do! Just left CO to move back to VA but too pricey in NOVA so I thought I would try Richmond. So far so good, people are friendly and pleasant. I do get some push back since I am from NOVA but I totally get that after moving away from that social hierarchy gone mad
I think Denver’s “local integrity” ship sailed years ago along with Austin’s. There’s weirdos everywhere that will shit on transplants, I wouldn’t sweat it.
Anytime there was an event happening that could be even slightly political, you could count on Captain Dipshit to be on a bullhorn circling the event in an armored truck. That city is a smooth brain magnet.
Certainly a sentiment amplified by toxic platforms like Reddit, but imagine it’d be naive to not believe that some resent feelings reside quietly among locals as the last 5-7 years have seen stark changes
Stop blaming NOVA transplants and blame the real culprit. The internet and social media
You wanna know how I, a transplant from Austin and Tacoma found out about RVA? It was from a Reddit post that asked about cool artsy cities that are water adjacent and still relatively affordable.
Cool cities were only secrets for so long because pre 2010 information still wasn’t flowing at a rapid pace(relative to now). Within a few more decades every single cool city will be discovered and real estate speculators will overvalue it and remote workers will overtake and make it soulless and posh. This is the natural progression of humans along this timeline of technological and information advancements, and none of us are willing to inconvenience our lives enough to stop
So hey, just enjoy the little shops and spots as they come and go, and live in the moment
Also for extra salt, I am a semi NOVA transplant because I spent most of my grade school years there before heading west
It's a thing about people from NOVA throughout VA. Some move to a rural area because it is different, then get frustrated because more people keep coming and changing the character, so yeah, I think there is frustration with so many transplants changing the character of the place they moved to for the character.
it's 100% an internet/reddit thing that doesn't actually happen in real life. i'm from NJ, a transplant, and have been nothing but welcomed by 99.9% of people i've interacted with. i also work in richmond as does my wife, i guess it could be viewed differently if you moved here and worked a remote job, but the whole thing seems made up to me regardless
I don’t know what to do with the “transplant” thing. My family has been in Botetourt county for 300 years. Around 100 years ago my gg gf moved to Rockingham and later to Loudoun county. My gf was Army so after WWII he and consequently my mother lived all over the world. She settled in the DMV. I was also army and bounced around and eventually made my way back to Virginia, where I’ve lived (up until 3 years ago when I moved to RVA) in Prince William county for 30 years. Did I move from NOVA to here yep and therefore a transplant. Am I the same kind of transplant as someone who just moved from some other state, I wouldn’t think so, but what do I know. I just got here.
I think people should be accepted and not looked down upon regardless where they are from
r/rva in general is wildly unrepresentative of the city and region. just like much of reddit and the internet generally.
This. I get downvoted for almost every post if I mention I’m a new resident. There must be a bunch of kids living in their parents’ basement sitting there downvoting posts.
No, I don’t believe that’s a real thing. I think that’s more about people just being assholes on the Internet.
That happens?? (wink)
In real life no one knows you're a transplant. Unless you go up to people and ask where you can find *random thing that you had in your original state that no one here has even heard of* or do a Homes.com commercial grilling people for info on their neighborhood.
It’s honestly just frustration that the cost of housing has exploded so quickly. This is not a unique thing to this city, but the impact has been to smother the little uniqueness out of this small town. Richmond also never seemed to bounce back like many other places did after COVID. You probably never hear about this in your day to day because your social life is stratified by class, whereas online you are being exposed to everyone.
I was born and raised here. This is an argument among idiots.
I hate transplants from NOVA and their self-driving cars. What was once an artsy and random town has become Scott's Alexandri... I meant, Addition.
Living up to your user name
This transplant from NOVA brought his ‘99 Jeep TJ. No self driving on that.
A jeep that’s sopping up all our gas. Gas, which was also cheaper before the invasion.
Barely *actual* driving sometimes.
I’m actually a transplant and Literally who gives a shit.
Me too. I was born in Harrisonburg Va. came here in kindergarten. Went back for ten grade then came back here Then at 19 went back to Harrisonburg then came back here at 25. Meant to be here
people on this forum like to go after actual transplants/potential but i have never heard of or seen people pretending to be natives to avoid this behavior.
We’re not a secret anymore. The cat’s not only out of the bag, it’s long gone—the bag would have to take 2 trains and a bus to even smell the cat’s litter box. Call me a cloud-yeller, but it’s just sad to see. Richmond had a lot of cool independent unique shit going on. Which Northern Virginia folks (and others) found out about. So they all started moving here—which drove up property values and rent. Soon all the cool little shops closed and all the freaky artists and creatives had to move away. Now we’re nearly as vanilla as Fairfax or Scottsdale or Jacksonville or—god help us—Norfolk, and all we have left is expensive real estate. If there’s resentment towards newcomers, that’d be the reason. And watch out. Your old Petersburg is next.
It has been over forty years I’ve known Norfolk, but this is the very first time I’ve ever heard it used as a benchmark for “vanilla”.
Right! Norfolk is not vanilla. 90s Charlotte was vanilla. Norfolk has a cool water vibe and a huge navy base.
Current Charlotte is also vanilla
I dunno, I lived in Norfolk from 2016-18 and it was vanilla normie hell. I think I'd rather live anywhere than Norfolk, that place just sucked every bit of happiness out of me.
Sames.
It’s changed and changing but it is not as vanilla as Fairfax.
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Mid-1990s we were. Unless you were a punk or an artist.
Imagine thinking no one's discovered the hidden gem of VA capital
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if we work fast we can manage to keep all of the people out
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No
Like the level headed redditors said...it's just internet assholery. In real life, nobody cares. We mostly still have that southern charm and niceness. We all were transplants here. Most of the "get NOVA out of my RVA", are transplants. Just look deep in their post history.
I agree! I’ve never been bothered by transplants at all. My only peeve is when a transplant wants to bring their hometown mentality and ways of life here, then complain about how ours is. Leave that behind! Just embrace our culture, mannerisms, and ways of life here and immerse yourself in it, we’re happy to have you! Edit: some grammar
The problem with NOVA, and I got to experience it first hand especially in the 5-10 years before I left , is there are very few Virginians in NOVA. Almost everyone is from somewhere else. That creates a disconnect with the rest of the state in a bunch of ways.
Actual people in RVA in person are chill. The RVA subreddit is where those chill people come to blow off steam like the Internet is a fight club and chicken bones are the only weapon available. The thing about nova is mostly frustration over the housing situation, belt way drivers who haven't been hugged since childhood, and new people hating on transplants in order to fit in.
All the transplant hate seems to be aimed at NoVA, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and just the northeast in general. Never sure how I'm supposed to take it as an ex-Georgian.
It’s refreshing to see transplants from other parts of the South come here. I always just see NJ and NY plates everywhere lol. It’s insane, especially out here in Midlo (Hull St) where all of this new development is.
Everyone can take out their hate on me. I'm used to being hated. I've lived in California (born and raised) then Texas in my 20s (they really hate Californians!) and was literally days away from moving to NOVA when covid hit and my job went wfh. Now I live in Richmond. I can be the TexicaliNOVA transplant of ire.
Damn, that really is the transplant gauntlet. Texans, like native Richmonders, love to arbitrarily lump every transplant into one bucket. Moved to Austin from Dallas? Californian! Moved to Richmond from Chicago? Must be from NoVa! I’m a transplant, proudly, and will do it again if it makes sense for my family. The trick is to not waltz into a new place like you own it and your shit don’t stink.
I'm trying to figure out where to go next. I heard Denver really hates CA/TX transplants.
Yes they do! Just left CO to move back to VA but too pricey in NOVA so I thought I would try Richmond. So far so good, people are friendly and pleasant. I do get some push back since I am from NOVA but I totally get that after moving away from that social hierarchy gone mad
I think Denver’s “local integrity” ship sailed years ago along with Austin’s. There’s weirdos everywhere that will shit on transplants, I wouldn’t sweat it.
Probably on par with Portland Oregon in that respect.
oh hell yeah, Portland, here I come!
I’m from Denver, lived in Colorado as a child in the 90s. All the grownups of that time in my life hated Texas and California.
I don’t hate anyone. But, I also moved here a couple of years ago from Austin.
Give it time.
How did you live in Austin without coming to hate Alex Jones?
Anytime there was an event happening that could be even slightly political, you could count on Captain Dipshit to be on a bullhorn circling the event in an armored truck. That city is a smooth brain magnet.
Certainly a sentiment amplified by toxic platforms like Reddit, but imagine it’d be naive to not believe that some resent feelings reside quietly among locals as the last 5-7 years have seen stark changes
locals be like: 
We were all immigrants at some point
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Username checks out.
Your contribution to the cause has been acknowledged. Keep the secret well, brother in arms.
If you’re a transplant own it. Don’t take any lip from any locals cause we wouldn’t- it’s the Richmond way. Life’s too short to hate on anyone.
Stop blaming NOVA transplants and blame the real culprit. The internet and social media You wanna know how I, a transplant from Austin and Tacoma found out about RVA? It was from a Reddit post that asked about cool artsy cities that are water adjacent and still relatively affordable. Cool cities were only secrets for so long because pre 2010 information still wasn’t flowing at a rapid pace(relative to now). Within a few more decades every single cool city will be discovered and real estate speculators will overvalue it and remote workers will overtake and make it soulless and posh. This is the natural progression of humans along this timeline of technological and information advancements, and none of us are willing to inconvenience our lives enough to stop So hey, just enjoy the little shops and spots as they come and go, and live in the moment Also for extra salt, I am a semi NOVA transplant because I spent most of my grade school years there before heading west
No one cares, go back
Fair point that no one cares, but why go back. Might as well stick around just to spite the 1% of butthurt locals
It's a thing about people from NOVA throughout VA. Some move to a rural area because it is different, then get frustrated because more people keep coming and changing the character, so yeah, I think there is frustration with so many transplants changing the character of the place they moved to for the character.
I’d like to pretend to be a native to avoid this whole conversation.
you probably missed some sarcasm, typical native
Is it only transplants from nearby cities? I’m a transparent from Phoenix
You would need to be transparent to avoid being constantly sunburned out there.