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Anonymous wrote:Annapolis definitely feels blue collar and redneck, don’t know what you guys are taking about. About 50% of the people you’ll see there have tattoos, the food scene is 90% bar and pub food, there are no high end/sophistic restaurants, and it feels like a rustic town from the south.
Huh??? Have we been to the same Annapolis?
Your description sounds more like Odenton and Glen Burnie.
Yes, I’ve lived in Annapolis, and I’m born and raised in Bethesda. I’ve also lived around much of the US and even outside of it. Annapolis is not all multi-million dollar waterfront homes on the Severn River. Much of it is working-class and middle-class, and there’s a bunch of public housing within the city. Highland Beach and Parole have a lot of working-class rednecks. It’s not the rich la-la-la land you all wish it was, it’s like any other super segregated city from the south. Also, in my experience, the white people in Annapolis are way more racist and Trumpy than white people in Odenton, who are way more progressive. There is nothing high end about downtown Annapolis at all. It’s just a bunch of bars, pubs, grungy coffee shops like Rise Up. Anything fancy in Annapolis looks stuck in 2005, like Carpaccio.
Odenton and Crofton are far more cosmopolitan than Annapolis ever will be. The only “diversity” in Annapolis is Black and Hispanic people living in public housing. Both Odenton and Crofton blow Annapolis out of the water when it comes to the percentage of college educated residents. Diversity in Crofton and Odenton includes Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Muslim, and Indian families. They have the highest percentage of foreign born families in all of AA County. The horrible/garbage public schools in Annapolis would never attract those families in a million years. Not even wealthy people in Annapolis want anything to do with those schools.
Odenton, Crofton and cosmopolitan. That’s the first time I’ve seen those words in a sentence together.
Big night in Odenton is getting a chicken box at Royal Farms and finishing the night with some cold ones at Buck Murphy’s.
A “big night out” in Annapolis usually means dragging your husband who’s now shaped like a retired lacrosse ball into the same boat shoes, salmon shorts, and off-brand Vineyard Vines button-down you panic-bought at Marshalls during the Obama administration. You’ll make a reservation at Dock Street Bar & Grill, because apparently nothing says “coastal charm” like bland crab dip and a 50/50 chance of food poisoning, while a local rock band made up entirely of guys who peaked playing Battle of the Bands before dropping out of Broadneck butchers a Dave Matthews cover in the corner. Then comes the highlight: swaying in a sweaty crowd of sunburnt Edgewater rednecks and Calvert County day-drinkers, surrounded by Anne Arundel’s “elite”: people whose resumes peak with an associate’s degree from AACC or a marketing diploma from Salisbury and who now live in their parents’ basements, proudly insisting they “just love the Annapolis lifestyle.” Annapolis is a place where ambition goes to die quietly between $3 rail drinks, and the only thing more bloated than the crowd’s livers are their delusions that this is somehow “upscale living.”
This thread (and this post in particular) is so good. An unexpected gem.
I've only been to the historic downtown part. Literally the "get ice cream and look at the water" part so loving all the descriptions.
Totally! I love this thread and I want more from the ‘Annapolis hater’: s/he is great!
They’ll be back. Like most Odenton residents, they want you to think they’re at some fancy embassy event, or dinner at a Jose Andres restaurant. Reality is they probably drove the leased Hellcat over to Arundel Mills. While the little ones are running between the food court and Bass Pro Shops, they’re playing quarter slots at Maryland Live!
Oh wow, you’re so fancy because you live in “historic downtown” where you can walk to a Mission BBQ, Starbucks, and Chipotle. You know who else can walk to those places? People who live in Waugh Chapel Town Center — where every single one of those exact same chains is right there too. Your “iconic harbor” is just a puddle with overpriced crab dip, crawling with retirees in Sperrys pretending they’re in Nantucket while seagulls fight over discarded fries. One of the fanciest restaurants you can brag about is Ruth’s Chris, which, by the way, also exists in Odenton. And that “beloved” Annapolis Ice Cream Company you act like is some local treasure? Yeah, it’s scooping cones in Crofton now too under the name “Always Ice Cream Company,” because apparently even the ice cream wants to escape the fake charm.
The truth is, downtown Annapolis isn’t special. It’s Waugh Chapel Town Center with worse parking, higher prices, geriatric boutique stores no one has bought anything from since 1935, and a superiority complex so deep it could drown in its own harbor water.
At least people in Piney Orchard and Waugh Chapel can say they can walk to grocery stores. People in downtown Annapolis can’t even do that.
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