“I gotta get out of here.”

That was a quote from radio legend Bob Grant at the end of his show every night. It’s my motto to move.

This past week my family and I took a short vacation to Wiliamsburg, Virginia. It was awesome. Nobody was wearing masks, nobody freaking out over masks, the cost of living was normal, and there wasn’t Black Lives Matter signs everywhere. English was spoken everywhere. People of all races didn’t go around thinking that whites were evil. The conservative talk station didn’t play PSA’s to get the jab or play ads from Facebook. But this is Hampton Roads so the news was all violence all the time!

I got home New Year’s Eve. I drove for Uber that night. I had a pick up in the Clarendon neighborhood. There was a black man with a microphone in a park trashing whites. Mind you this is after midnight. My fare was four young black men. These were not thugs, so I didn’t mind and the destination was not the ‘hood so I wasn’t worried. In the car I heard the word “nigga” more times in 10 minutes than I said the f-word in over half a century. The “DMV” (District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia) is made up of clans. You have the blacks in DC, and Prince George’s County, Indians, Asians, and Middle Eastern in Virginia, and the guilty white liberals far away from the blacks, and Hispanics everywhere. None of them get along, and stick to their own kind. And everyone hates the whites. The Middle Eastern, and Asians that come here with money look down on the whites. While the poor ones work at 7-11 and Walmart. The conservative Trump supporters have to meet in secret. Plus we have men who look like women and vice versa.

I lived here for over 10 years and I hate it. I have no friends and my neighbors look down on people like us who will wait 20 minutes to save 15 to 20 cents on a gallon of gas at Costco or BJ’s. These people think they are God’s gift to humanity because they work for the government in DC. What you think of people in DC is correct; self centered, self righteous, arrogant, thinking people outside DC, NYC or CA are dumb rubes. I tell the tourist that ride Uber with me that I miss the salt of the earth people of the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

I am looking to make major changes to move away from here. I am not a spring chicken but its the best for me and my kids. It’s going to be life changing, but that’s what it has come down to. I am looking to move in a place like Jim Lancia, Walter Yurkiw, or Patrick Ryan lives at. And unfortunately so is everyone else. I am sick of supporting a community with my generous taxes, that hates me, treats me like a criminal, and looks to erase our history despite the fact it happened here! I will keep you posted. See you soon neighbor!