A city located in the tidewater region. In hampton you can see the bay anywhere within a 5 min walk, and you can see the ghetto anywhere within a 3 min walk. On the shorelines you can find the wealthy, and just 2 blocks over you can find the slums. The NFL is basically composed of players from Hampton High School and Phoebus High School. Every black man knows not to venture into Fox Hill for fear of the rednecks, and every redneck fears the mean streets of Shell Road as well as Rip Rap Road. All of the white kids are now wiggers snorting coke 21 hours out of the day. Kids come back from college (Radford, Va Tech, or JMU) to learn that the striaght edge kids from high school, now are "drug dealers" or at least they think so. In all honesty, if you want some good seafood or a crack rock , Hampton is a great place to visit.

person 1 - Do you know where I can get some coke?

person 2 - Dude, are you kidding me? Any white kid in town.

Hampton consists of a black majority with money. This is where you will find the best looking black people - both men and women. People here don't really consider this the south. Men in/from Hampton have swagger and women are known to be pretty, but stuck-up. Home of Allen Iverson and also Hampton University. Part of the Seven Cities and surrounded by water on a peninsula.

Hampton a city located in Southern Virginia (one of the 7 major cities in the hampton roads area). To be honest Hampton is not really an impressive city its one of those cities you just pass by when going to Virginia Beach or Norfolk. Nobody comes to Hampton but yet we have a preforming center (Hampton Coliseum). There is only one mall in Hampton its dead spot when it comes to shopping (the peninsula town center or"PTC"). The majority of Hamptonians are African American (besides the Foxhill area). Hampton is really segergated by what people ware. just know if you do not own any pair or jordans nikes if do you own polo, supreme, obey or stussy shirts you WILL NOT SURVIVE HAMPTON. The natives of hampton are FAKE and IGNORANT do not trust them they act one way around you but slam you behind your back. Also everyone claims that they're from New York but they're not. there only 4 high schools in hampton so everyone knows everyone if your not from here you are going to be socially lost

“HAMPTON ROADS” is a condensed version of the original name given by the region’s settlers to the harbor in southeastern Virginia known then as: Southampton’s Roadstead.

The term “Hampton” dates from the early 17th century when the first royal governor, Lord de la Ware, named the area in honor of the third Earl of Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, a major investor of the Virginia Company of London, the financial backers of the Jamestown settlers. And, “Roadstead” is an old English word for a protected harbor.

Some things never change: just as sports stadiums, libraries, and college buildings today are named for major sponsors and donors, so it was then.

“HAMPTON ROADS” also refers to the body of water between the Virginia Peninsula (to the North) and Southside, the southern part of southeastern Virginia. It is formed by the confluence of the James, Nansemond and Elizabeth rivers and flows into the Chesapeake Bay whose watershed covers 64,000 square miles and all or part of six states (NY, PA, WV, MD, DE and VA) and DC.

“HAMPTON ROADS” is one of the world’s biggest and deepest natural harbors, the largest in North America, and is home to the world’s largest naval base at Norfolk. “HAMPTON ROADS” has been well known within nautical and maritime communities for centuries.

“HAMPTON ROADS” was widely adopted as the name for the surrounding region in 1984 when two planning districts and Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) merged, placing the region in the nation’s top 50.

Legend has it that Waldorf is the capital of all SMIBs (southern Maryland In-Breds). Basically a place you drive through to get somewhere else, Waldorf is essentially the Hampton VA. of Maryland.

Is the Richest neighborhood in Hampton, VA the neighborhood was formed in the 1960s and grew into a huge neighborhood big enough for you to get lost in. From Farmington Blv to Estate Drive is the original section of Farmington build between the 1970s and 1980s then between 2003-2005 Diamond hill and that back west section of the neighborhood was formed and the last couple sections and the biggest houses in the whole neighborhood were build between 2007-2011 known as the Wexford Dr,Castle haven Rd, and Naturewood Crt, the kids schools start off at phenix preK-8 school and would be going to Bethel high school

Hampton roads is the reason why America is America. Jamestown the first sustained settlement in english america Williamsburg the nations first capital and Yorktown ware the english surrendered. Hampton Roads is different from the rest of SoVa because one its more urban and a less unemployment rate, The education here in one of the highest in the country and we are the second richest area in the state (NoVa if the first).
Hampton roads is also called the "7cities" because of its 7 mayjor cities in the area (Norfolk,Suffolk,Newport News,Hampton,Porthsmouth,Chesapeake and Virginia Beach). The area is also the only are in the state that has more than two american major city within a metropolitan area (ie. Norfolk,Virginia beach,Newport news,). Outside of the 7 core cities you have small counties cities such as York county,James city county,Gloucester county,Matthews county,Surry county,Isle of Wight county,the cities of Poquoson,Smithfield,and Williamsburg. Hampton roads recently claim counties in north east North Carolina due to the proximity of the bases(ie. Currituck,Dare,Camden, and Paspotank counties). Besides the San Diego area Hampton roads is the only region with all branch of the military due to the proximity of Washingtion DC. also home of the first NASA program (Langely AFB).