Re: Oak Hill
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3rd Generation FFx
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Date: July 20, 2012 04:18PM
>>>"I live in Oak Hill, not Herndon. Get it straight, people! 20171 zip code is Oak Hill."
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Thou doth protest too much...precisely because it is a "snob thing"... "people!" *lol*. And Oak Hill residents are so renowned for decrying their link with Herndon, it has become an ongoing eye-rolling local joke. What a great example this thread is of that as well as a great snob-falling-on-face moment that you went out of your way to "set people straight" on a zip code (90125 it is not *lol*). When the 20171 zip code IS both a Herndon & Oak Hill zip code. And previously was EXCLUSIVELY Herndon, but has never been exclusively Oak Hill. And the post office accepts either one with the the same zip code (care to "set them straight"?). I wrote friends there before & after the change. So why is there always the big deal about the "NOT HERNDON" affix?? If it is not the very "snob thing" that is also being denied.
>>>"It's NOT a snob thing. Just clarification people."
(Well as long as we are all talking to the "people" here *lol*) People, I grew up in Oakton, across the street from Herndon (later Oak Hill) and I know it is absolutely a "snob thing", don't act like it isn't. Why didn't they change the name to "Herndale" or "Herndon Heights" or "Herndon Acres" *lol* because they wanted to milk the higher property values of "Oakton" not "Herndon" (some have suggested "Her-ton" pronounced "Hurtin" when the Oak Hill residents become too shrill). And no one, but no one fusses about "Oak Hill not Herndon" as much as the "O.H.N.H.s" (pronounced on-highs, ie people who live in OakHillNotHerndon). So much so, that "Not Herndon" is added to the end of "Oak Hill" as frequently as "DC" is added to the end of "Washington" *LMAO* As the starter of this thread continues this hysterical local nuance in its opening lines.
And why is that?? People in Chantilly don't fuss if you say Fairfax, they just go - yeah, Fairfax-Chantilly there abouts. And people in Oakton don't fuss if you say Vienna, they just go - yeah, Vienna-Oakton there abouts. But oh, the Oak Hill crowd, has got to "set people straight". No one dares go Oak Hill-Herndon there abouts. EEEeeew! *lol*
>>>"Before Oak Hill, I never felt right using Herndon because I didn't live in the "Town of Herndon".
Oh really?? Nothing snobby about OHNHs saying that. Except why don't people not "feel right" about using Fairfax when they don't live in the City of Fairfax, or Vienna but not the City of Vienna, or Alexandria but not the City of Alexandria, etc, etc ad naseum. Because the "Not Herndon" movement is one of the biggest "snob things" going.
And then there was the protesting by the OHNHs when they changed the school borders of the over populated Oakton Highschool and people got switched to South Lakes which is more than twice as close. Face it, "OakHillNotHerndon" is one of the worst "wanna-be" areas of Fairfax County.
PS:
I wish they would rename Oakton, Western Anacostia. Oak Hill would crap their pants. Too many snobs putting on airs in Fairfax now days.