Signs you are a YUPPIE

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore and the surrounding area has WASPy, preppy enclaves. Has no one here ever heard of the Hunt Cup?

Yeah, but again — nothing compared to the NYC/New England area.

Check the history of Baltimore! Why are you so adamant about Baltimore not being preppy or UC or old $, PP? I don't even live in the area and knew this about Baltimore.

Because it’s barely old money. You want to tout the tiny enclaves of wealth? Fine. Congrats. But it’s nothing compared to other parts of the country.

It’s very strange you have such a stake in this argument, PP. Whether you want to believe it or not, there is a strong contingent of people as described as preppy here in the outer edges of Baltimore- involving country club membership, debutantes, philanthropists, very large estates, second homes, horse farms, etc. These families go way back. I think you must have not had any exposure to them, but I assure you they exist. But I am going to stop wasting any other time on you if you bafflingly decide to deny they exist.

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore and the surrounding area has WASPy, preppy enclaves. Has no one here ever heard of the Hunt Cup?

Yeah, but again — nothing compared to the NYC/New England area.

Check the history of Baltimore! Why are you so adamant about Baltimore not being preppy or UC or old $, PP? I don't even live in the area and knew this about Baltimore.

Because it’s barely old money. You want to tout the tiny enclaves of wealth? Fine. Congrats. But it’s nothing compared to other parts of the country.

It’s very strange you have such a stake in this argument, PP. Whether you want to believe it or not, there is a strong contingent of people as described as preppy here in the outer edges of Baltimore- involving country club membership, debutantes, philanthropists, very large estates, second homes, horse farms, etc. These families go way back. I think you must have not had any exposure to them, but I assure you they exist. But I am going to stop wasting any other time on you if you bafflingly decide to deny they exist.

Goalposts moved again. There's some Trump-level insecurity on display in this desperation to prove that Baltimore is less than.

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore and the surrounding area has WASPy, preppy enclaves. Has no one here ever heard of the Hunt Cup?

Yeah, but again — nothing compared to the NYC/New England area.

Check the history of Baltimore! Why are you so adamant about Baltimore not being preppy or UC or old $, PP? I don't even live in the area and knew this about Baltimore.

Because it’s barely old money. You want to tout the tiny enclaves of wealth? Fine. Congrats. But it’s nothing compared to other parts of the country.

It’s very strange you have such a stake in this argument, PP. Whether you want to believe it or not, there is a strong contingent of people as described as preppy here in the outer edges of Baltimore- involving country club membership, debutantes, philanthropists, very large estates, second homes, horse farms, etc. These families go way back. I think you must have not had any exposure to them, but I assure you they exist. But I am going to stop wasting any other time on you if you bafflingly decide to deny they exist.

Goalposts moved again. There's some Trump-level insecurity on display in this desperation to prove that Baltimore is less than.

Not from Baltimore so no dog in this fight but I wonder if the pp realizes that investment banking in the US STARTED IN BALTIMORE! There is totally old school wealth from the Alex Brown days and before. That’s part of what feeds the prep culture. Lax bro’s were practically invented in Baltimore for god’s sake.

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore and the surrounding area has WASPy, preppy enclaves. Has no one here ever heard of the Hunt Cup?

Yeah, but again — nothing compared to the NYC/New England area.

Check the history of Baltimore! Why are you so adamant about Baltimore not being preppy or UC or old $, PP? I don't even live in the area and knew this about Baltimore.

Because it’s barely old money. You want to tout the tiny enclaves of wealth? Fine. Congrats. But it’s nothing compared to other parts of the country.

It’s very strange you have such a stake in this argument, PP. Whether you want to believe it or not, there is a strong contingent of people as described as preppy here in the outer edges of Baltimore- involving country club membership, debutantes, philanthropists, very large estates, second homes, horse farms, etc. These families go way back. I think you must have not had any exposure to them, but I assure you they exist. But I am going to stop wasting any other time on you if you bafflingly decide to deny they exist.

Goalposts moved again. There's some Trump-level insecurity on display in this desperation to prove that Baltimore is less than.

Not from Baltimore so no dog in this fight but I wonder if the pp realizes that investment banking in the US STARTED IN BALTIMORE! There is totally old school wealth from the Alex Brown days and before. That’s part of what feeds the prep culture. Lax bro’s were practically invented in Baltimore for god’s sake.

DP here, there used to be a lot of heavy industries in Baltimore as well. Back in the day there were lots of major wealthy families. Also Goucher college used to be a big deal for the girls of these families. And the PP re Lax is also correct.

This anti Baltimore poster is simply wrong. I’ve had arguments like this with people before and it’s pretty much useless when they think they are right. I’m not from Baltimore, I just read a lot and have knowledge of these things.

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Anonymous wrote:So many of the NYC kids who attend Dalton, Collegiate, Trinity, H.Mann, Spence etc are absolute ANTI-preps. Don’t own a thing that is preppy, would never be caught dead at Murray’s and think Shep and Ian are tools. “Preppy” is not just old money or old NE money it’s old money plus a lifestyle.

The folks that live in NYC, shop at the Beretta Gallery and have horses in two or three states, are another story.

Of course. Not everyone who went to those schools is preppy, but in order to really be preppy, you have to have gone to a school like that.

No, you do not. You have a false notion of the concept and are adding silly add ons.

I agree. The “preppiest” person I have ever known grew up on the Main Line in Philly. Think Lewis Winthrop times 500.

Well obvi, the main line was a major bastion of old money.

But this thread I thought is about yuppies? Yuppies are not preppies. They may overlap.

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Anonymous wrote:No one is saying Baltimore has the wealth of NYC (that is pretty obvious) but go to Hunt Valley or Greensping Valley and preppies will abound! The person earlier who kept saying preppy people don’t live in Baltimore has never actually been to that area I think. I come from a long line of distinguished Gilman men myself!

Gilman? I went to Hillman!

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore - where when someone asks where you went to school, they aren't asking about university

I'm not from there (DC native) but OMG, this. The person talking trash about Baltimore clearly has no clue.

Yeah, and it’s almost certainly nothing compared to wealthy parts of New England, NYC, and CT. When people ask where you went to high school in Manhattan, they want to know what prep school you went to. Then they want to know where your family summered and wintered — was it Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, or Southampton for the summers? Was it Tahoe or Vail for the winters?

Sorry, but Baltimore just has a fraction of the historic wealth that the Northeast has. I’m sure there are rich areas, but it’s nothing compared to the circles of people whose kids went to Horace Mann, Brearley, Chapin, or Dalton, and or maybe the New England boarding schools (Andover/Exeter/Deerfield, etc.) for high school. I was on the very edges of that world, as my parents own in Manhattan and I went to Andover, while my sister went to Horace Mann. I saw that wealth directly, even though my family—though rich—does not have that historic affluence.

I went to a party at a school friend’s family’s apartment on Central Park West. They own 3 entire floors of their building and have a private elevator. She’s never been on the subway because her driver takes her everywhere. Another one of my friends from Andover has a building at Harvard with his family’s name on it. Another one is 3rd generation Princeton and Yale legacy. These are kids who grow up and do not have to work. Instead, they use their family’s wealth to establish VC funds and philanthropic foundations.

That’s preppy. It’s old money. I have an extremely hard time believing that anything in Baltimore compares, despite the existence of perhaps some small pockets of rich families.

To the person who asked above: Yes, yuppie is different from preppy. Ultimately, preppy refers to people who are WASPs, went to prep school, have country club memberships, and are comfortable in places like the very wealthy areas of Long Island, Connecticut, Martha’s Vineyard, and Manhattan. Yes, there are people who dress in sort of a preppy way, but they’re really just pretending, unless they have the lifestyle to go along with it.

Congratulations on your humble brag about how rich you are. Preppy doesn't mean obscene wealth. Look at all of the pretty kids at UVA. They aren't necessarily in that stratosphere, but are preppy nonetheless.

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore - where when someone asks where you went to school, they aren't asking about university

I'm not from there (DC native) but OMG, this. The person talking trash about Baltimore clearly has no clue.

Yeah, and it’s almost certainly nothing compared to wealthy parts of New England, NYC, and CT. When people ask where you went to high school in Manhattan, they want to know what prep school you went to. Then they want to know where your family summered and wintered — was it Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, or Southampton for the summers? Was it Tahoe or Vail for the winters?

Sorry, but Baltimore just has a fraction of the historic wealth that the Northeast has. I’m sure there are rich areas, but it’s nothing compared to the circles of people whose kids went to Horace Mann, Brearley, Chapin, or Dalton, and or maybe the New England boarding schools (Andover/Exeter/Deerfield, etc.) for high school. I was on the very edges of that world, as my parents own in Manhattan and I went to Andover, while my sister went to Horace Mann. I saw that wealth directly, even though my family—though rich—does not have that historic affluence.

I went to a party at a school friend’s family’s apartment on Central Park West. They own 3 entire floors of their building and have a private elevator. She’s never been on the subway because her driver takes her everywhere. Another one of my friends from Andover has a building at Harvard with his family’s name on it. Another one is 3rd generation Princeton and Yale legacy. These are kids who grow up and do not have to work. Instead, they use their family’s wealth to establish VC funds and philanthropic foundations.

That’s preppy. It’s old money. I have an extremely hard time believing that anything in Baltimore compares, despite the existence of perhaps some small pockets of rich families.

To the person who asked above: Yes, yuppie is different from preppy. Ultimately, preppy refers to people who are WASPs, went to prep school, have country club memberships, and are comfortable in places like the very wealthy areas of Long Island, Connecticut, Martha’s Vineyard, and Manhattan. Yes, there are people who dress in sort of a preppy way, but they’re really just pretending, unless they have the lifestyle to go along with it.

I hope this recitation made you feel good, but it doesn't change the fact that the original statement, that no one in Baltimore is preppy, is flat out wrong.

My point is that it’s nothing compared to the NYC area, which so far only one person has admitted is true.

So who cares. The questions was about preppy people, who don't only exist in your NE world.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Baltimore and the surrounding area has WASPy, preppy enclaves. Has no one here ever heard of the Hunt Cup?

Yeah, but again — nothing compared to the NYC/New England area.

Check the history of Baltimore! Why are you so adamant about Baltimore not being preppy or UC or old $, PP? I don't even live in the area and knew this about Baltimore.

Because it’s barely old money. You want to tout the tiny enclaves of wealth? Fine. Congrats. But it’s nothing compared to other parts of the country.

It’s very strange you have such a stake in this argument, PP. Whether you want to believe it or not, there is a strong contingent of people as described as preppy here in the outer edges of Baltimore- involving country club membership, debutantes, philanthropists, very large estates, second homes, horse farms, etc. These families go way back. I think you must have not had any exposure to them, but I assure you they exist. But I am going to stop wasting any other time on you if you bafflingly decide to deny they exist.

Goalposts moved again. There's some Trump-level insecurity on display in this desperation to prove that Baltimore is less than.

Not from Baltimore so no dog in this fight but I wonder if the pp realizes that investment banking in the US STARTED IN BALTIMORE! There is totally old school wealth from the Alex Brown days and before. That’s part of what feeds the prep culture. Lax bro’s were practically invented in Baltimore for god’s sake.

Not true about lacrosse. The sport has equal ties to NE boarding schools, where it was already established as a sport by the time lacrosse came to Maryland in the 1880s.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Baltimore and the surrounding area has WASPy, preppy enclaves. Has no one here ever heard of the Hunt Cup?

Yeah, but again — nothing compared to the NYC/New England area.

Check the history of Baltimore! Why are you so adamant about Baltimore not being preppy or UC or old $, PP? I don't even live in the area and knew this about Baltimore.

Because it’s barely old money. You want to tout the tiny enclaves of wealth? Fine. Congrats. But it’s nothing compared to other parts of the country.

It’s very strange you have such a stake in this argument, PP. Whether you want to believe it or not, there is a strong contingent of people as described as preppy here in the outer edges of Baltimore- involving country club membership, debutantes, philanthropists, very large estates, second homes, horse farms, etc. These families go way back. I think you must have not had any exposure to them, but I assure you they exist. But I am going to stop wasting any other time on you if you bafflingly decide to deny they exist.

Goalposts moved again. There's some Trump-level insecurity on display in this desperation to prove that Baltimore is less than.

Not from Baltimore so no dog in this fight but I wonder if the pp realizes that investment banking in the US STARTED IN BALTIMORE! There is totally old school wealth from the Alex Brown days and before. That’s part of what feeds the prep culture. Lax bro’s were practically invented in Baltimore for god’s sake.

Not true about lacrosse. The sport has equal ties to NE boarding schools, where it was already established as a sport by the time lacrosse came to Maryland in the 1880s.

Those guys were not LAX bro’s. You raise a historically accurate point and miss the tie in to this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore - where when someone asks where you went to school, they aren't asking about university

I'm not from there (DC native) but OMG, this. The person talking trash about Baltimore clearly has no clue.

Yeah, and it’s almost certainly nothing compared to wealthy parts of New England, NYC, and CT. When people ask where you went to high school in Manhattan, they want to know what prep school you went to. Then they want to know where your family summered and wintered — was it Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, or Southampton for the summers? Was it Tahoe or Vail for the winters?

Sorry, but Baltimore just has a fraction of the historic wealth that the Northeast has. I’m sure there are rich areas, but it’s nothing compared to the circles of people whose kids went to Horace Mann, Brearley, Chapin, or Dalton, and or maybe the New England boarding schools (Andover/Exeter/Deerfield, etc.) for high school. I was on the very edges of that world, as my parents own in Manhattan and I went to Andover, while my sister went to Horace Mann. I saw that wealth directly, even though my family—though rich—does not have that historic affluence.

I went to a party at a school friend’s family’s apartment on Central Park West. They own 3 entire floors of their building and have a private elevator. She’s never been on the subway because her driver takes her everywhere. Another one of my friends from Andover has a building at Harvard with his family’s name on it. Another one is 3rd generation Princeton and Yale legacy. These are kids who grow up and do not have to work. Instead, they use their family’s wealth to establish VC funds and philanthropic foundations.

That’s preppy. It’s old money. I have an extremely hard time believing that anything in Baltimore compares, despite the existence of perhaps some small pockets of rich families.

To the person who asked above: Yes, yuppie is different from preppy. Ultimately, preppy refers to people who are WASPs, went to prep school, have country club memberships, and are comfortable in places like the very wealthy areas of Long Island, Connecticut, Martha’s Vineyard, and Manhattan. Yes, there are people who dress in sort of a preppy way, but they’re really just pretending, unless they have the lifestyle to go along with it.

I hope this recitation made you feel good, but it doesn't change the fact that the original statement, that no one in Baltimore is preppy, is flat out wrong.

My point is that it’s nothing compared to the NYC area, which so far only one person has admitted is true.

So who cares. The questions was about preppy people, who don't only exist in your NE world.

Absolutely. And they largely don’t and didnt hang out in NYC. NYC, as anyone who lives there or has lives there, is not a bastion of prep.

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore - where when someone asks where you went to school, they aren't asking about university

I'm not from there (DC native) but OMG, this. The person talking trash about Baltimore clearly has no clue.

Yeah, and it’s almost certainly nothing compared to wealthy parts of New England, NYC, and CT. When people ask where you went to high school in Manhattan, they want to know what prep school you went to. Then they want to know where your family summered and wintered — was it Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, or Southampton for the summers? Was it Tahoe or Vail for the winters?

Sorry, but Baltimore just has a fraction of the historic wealth that the Northeast has. I’m sure there are rich areas, but it’s nothing compared to the circles of people whose kids went to Horace Mann, Brearley, Chapin, or Dalton, and or maybe the New England boarding schools (Andover/Exeter/Deerfield, etc.) for high school. I was on the very edges of that world, as my parents own in Manhattan and I went to Andover, while my sister went to Horace Mann. I saw that wealth directly, even though my family—though rich—does not have that historic affluence.

I went to a party at a school friend’s family’s apartment on Central Park West. They own 3 entire floors of their building and have a private elevator. She’s never been on the subway because her driver takes her everywhere. Another one of my friends from Andover has a building at Harvard with his family’s name on it. Another one is 3rd generation Princeton and Yale legacy. These are kids who grow up and do not have to work. Instead, they use their family’s wealth to establish VC funds and philanthropic foundations.

That’s preppy. It’s old money. I have an extremely hard time believing that anything in Baltimore compares, despite the existence of perhaps some small pockets of rich families.

To the person who asked above: Yes, yuppie is different from preppy. Ultimately, preppy refers to people who are WASPs, went to prep school, have country club memberships, and are comfortable in places like the very wealthy areas of Long Island, Connecticut, Martha’s Vineyard, and Manhattan. Yes, there are people who dress in sort of a preppy way, but they’re really just pretending, unless they have the lifestyle to go along with it.

I hope this recitation made you feel good, but it doesn't change the fact that the original statement, that no one in Baltimore is preppy, is flat out wrong.

My point is that it’s nothing compared to the NYC area, which so far only one person has admitted is true.

So who cares. The questions was about preppy people, who don't only exist in your NE world.

Absolutely. And they largely don’t and didnt hang out in NYC. NYC, as anyone who lives there or has lives there, is not a bastion of prep.

The kids going to Collegiate, Dalton, and Brearley aren’t preppy?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Baltimore and the surrounding area has WASPy, preppy enclaves. Has no one here ever heard of the Hunt Cup?

Yeah, but again — nothing compared to the NYC/New England area.

Check the history of Baltimore! Why are you so adamant about Baltimore not being preppy or UC or old $, PP? I don't even live in the area and knew this about Baltimore.

Because it’s barely old money. You want to tout the tiny enclaves of wealth? Fine. Congrats. But it’s nothing compared to other parts of the country.

It’s very strange you have such a stake in this argument, PP. Whether you want to believe it or not, there is a strong contingent of people as described as preppy here in the outer edges of Baltimore- involving country club membership, debutantes, philanthropists, very large estates, second homes, horse farms, etc. These families go way back. I think you must have not had any exposure to them, but I assure you they exist. But I am going to stop wasting any other time on you if you bafflingly decide to deny they exist.

Goalposts moved again. There's some Trump-level insecurity on display in this desperation to prove that Baltimore is less than.

Not from Baltimore so no dog in this fight but I wonder if the pp realizes that investment banking in the US STARTED IN BALTIMORE! There is totally old school wealth from the Alex Brown days and before. That’s part of what feeds the prep culture. Lax bro’s were practically invented in Baltimore for god’s sake.

Not true about lacrosse. The sport has equal ties to NE boarding schools, where it was already established as a sport by the time lacrosse came to Maryland in the 1880s.

Those guys were not LAX bro’s. You raise a historically accurate point and miss the tie in to this thread.

How is someone playing lacrosse at a boarding school not a lax bro?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore - where when someone asks where you went to school, they aren't asking about university

I'm not from there (DC native) but OMG, this. The person talking trash about Baltimore clearly has no clue.

Yeah, and it’s almost certainly nothing compared to wealthy parts of New England, NYC, and CT. When people ask where you went to high school in Manhattan, they want to know what prep school you went to. Then they want to know where your family summered and wintered — was it Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, or Southampton for the summers? Was it Tahoe or Vail for the winters?

Sorry, but Baltimore just has a fraction of the historic wealth that the Northeast has. I’m sure there are rich areas, but it’s nothing compared to the circles of people whose kids went to Horace Mann, Brearley, Chapin, or Dalton, and or maybe the New England boarding schools (Andover/Exeter/Deerfield, etc.) for high school. I was on the very edges of that world, as my parents own in Manhattan and I went to Andover, while my sister went to Horace Mann. I saw that wealth directly, even though my family—though rich—does not have that historic affluence.

I went to a party at a school friend’s family’s apartment on Central Park West. They own 3 entire floors of their building and have a private elevator. She’s never been on the subway because her driver takes her everywhere. Another one of my friends from Andover has a building at Harvard with his family’s name on it. Another one is 3rd generation Princeton and Yale legacy. These are kids who grow up and do not have to work. Instead, they use their family’s wealth to establish VC funds and philanthropic foundations.

That’s preppy. It’s old money. I have an extremely hard time believing that anything in Baltimore compares, despite the existence of perhaps some small pockets of rich families.

To the person who asked above: Yes, yuppie is different from preppy. Ultimately, preppy refers to people who are WASPs, went to prep school, have country club memberships, and are comfortable in places like the very wealthy areas of Long Island, Connecticut, Martha’s Vineyard, and Manhattan. Yes, there are people who dress in sort of a preppy way, but they’re really just pretending, unless they have the lifestyle to go along with it.

I hope this recitation made you feel good, but it doesn't change the fact that the original statement, that no one in Baltimore is preppy, is flat out wrong.

My point is that it’s nothing compared to the NYC area, which so far only one person has admitted is true.

So who cares. The questions was about preppy people, who don't only exist in your NE world.

Absolutely. And they largely don’t and didnt hang out in NYC. NYC, as anyone who lives there or has lives there, is not a bastion of prep.

The kids going to Collegiate, Dalton, and Brearley aren’t preppy?

Not the ones I know. Total hipsters and such. They would not be caught dead in Murray’s or the like. They have never seen the inside of the Beretta store.

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore and the surrounding area has WASPy, preppy enclaves. Has no one here ever heard of the Hunt Cup?

Yeah, but again — nothing compared to the NYC/New England area.

Check the history of Baltimore! Why are you so adamant about Baltimore not being preppy or UC or old $, PP? I don't even live in the area and knew this about Baltimore.

Because it’s barely old money. You want to tout the tiny enclaves of wealth? Fine. Congrats. But it’s nothing compared to other parts of the country.

It’s very strange you have such a stake in this argument, PP. Whether you want to believe it or not, there is a strong contingent of people as described as preppy here in the outer edges of Baltimore- involving country club membership, debutantes, philanthropists, very large estates, second homes, horse farms, etc. These families go way back. I think you must have not had any exposure to them, but I assure you they exist. But I am going to stop wasting any other time on you if you bafflingly decide to deny they exist.

Goalposts moved again. There's some Trump-level insecurity on display in this desperation to prove that Baltimore is less than.

Not from Baltimore so no dog in this fight but I wonder if the pp realizes that investment banking in the US STARTED IN BALTIMORE! There is totally old school wealth from the Alex Brown days and before. That’s part of what feeds the prep culture. Lax bro’s were practically invented in Baltimore for god’s sake.

Not true about lacrosse. The sport has equal ties to NE boarding schools, where it was already established as a sport by the time lacrosse came to Maryland in the 1880s.

Those guys were not LAX bro’s. You raise a historically accurate point and miss the tie in to this thread.

How is someone playing lacrosse at a boarding school not a lax bro?

Those trees fell in the backwoods and no one saw them. The Baltimore kids were part of creating a social scene.