Man, where to start....
I moved to Northern Virginia outside DC first (Woodbridge) when I first came to VA, but went to Prince George High about 25-30 minutes south of Richmond, with Jackie Bradley Jr. When I was younger I hated Virginia and everything about it, didn't really start claiming it until I was grown and outta prison. But one of the first things to highlight is the nature of the entire Greater Richmond region, which you can't get confused with the City of Rich itself...
The part I'm from initially is the Tri-Cities, which is Petersburg/Hopewell/Colonial Heights. Someone just posted a link of Confederate shyt in Colonial Whites, that's really what we called it and you gotta think I was in school there 16 years ago. There are more blacks there now but I remember in '16 there was a Confederate protest at the Colonial Whites courthouse, there is still alota Confederate sentiment in the Tri-Cities and all the rural areas leaving Richmond...
You barely see this shyt in the city of Richmond....yall ain't gotta take our word for it, but as people who have lived there, it's something you understand better, I'll chop into later...
So the Tri-Cities is kinda different, Colonial Whites is not all that rednecky and has charm but it is still closet racist, and VSU is there is the irony (VSU has a Petersburg address but is literally right in between Petersburg and Colonial Whites)...
Petersburg is where Trigga Trey and Tyra B from, and actually produced a good amount of athletes (from Moses Malone to current players like Frank Mason and CJ Prosise), Blair Underwood from there. shyt is violent as fukk, is like a mini-Richmond/Baltimore, old South stereotypes and the funny thing is while Petersburg is 76% black and The Whites is 13% black, you'll find more racist white people in The Burg....if you guys were saying yall felt the racist vibes in Petersburg instead of Rich, I'd get it more...
Hopewell is trash and is methed out now (was pilled and cracked out when I was younger) and is probably the most racist city of them all. Sits on the river and kinda has a Tidewater (Newport News/Hampton) vibe to it, very Old South...
So bopping thru all these spots as a youngster, popping back thru as an adult moving work, I have no love for the Tri-Cities. Very small fondness in that I went to school there, other than a few good memories, nothing left. Prince George kicked me out in my sophomore year in March '05 for selling small quantities of weed on campus...
But the Tri-Cities is inexplicably tied to Rich, it's as close as a 12-15 minute ride to "the city" depending where you coming from. All the entertainment is in Richmond, people in the Tri-Cities always in Richmond...
I've never said anything about cities in NY, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Jersey or Maryland but Pennsylvania is a stand alone state.
My bad. I misread. Like you said, we agreed that it is nothing personal.
Or you on drugs or something? First you said that only 4 cities on the list are the actual East Coast which was completely wrong and now you are trying to say that Pennsylvania is standalone state.
