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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.

Umm ... wut?

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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.

Not the ones you know does not equal “there are none.”

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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.

Umm ... wut?

No one knew what was going on at St.Pauls or Andover because those “Lax Bro’s” were hidden away from anyone. Not true for the Baltimore kids.

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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.

Not the ones you know does not equal “there are none.”

Cool rich kids in NY have not been preppy since Robert Chambers went to jail.

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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.

Not the ones you know does not equal “there are none.”

Cool rich kids in NY have not been preppy since Robert Chambers went to jail.

Whatever you want to think.

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Hey, uh, not sure if anyone has piped in here to let y'all know that all "yuppie" means is Young Urban Professional. So... food for thought as you go back and forth in your stupid arguments. I think maybe some of you mean bobo or some other classification?

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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.

Not the ones you know does not equal “there are none.”

Cool rich kids in NY have not been preppy since Robert Chambers went to jail.

Whatever you want to think.

Exactly. You are the arbiter if nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey, uh, not sure if anyone has piped in here to let y'all know that all "yuppie" means is Young Urban Professional. So... food for thought as you go back and forth in your stupid arguments. I think maybe some of you mean bobo or some other classification?

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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.

Not the ones you know does not equal “there are none.”

Cool rich kids in NY have not been preppy since Robert Chambers went to jail.

Whatever you want to think.

Exactly. You are the arbiter if nothing.

Nor are you.

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The gauntlet has been thrown, you are challenged to a duel.

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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.

Not the ones you know does not equal “there are none.”

Cool rich kids in NY have not been preppy since Robert Chambers went to jail.

Whatever you want to think.

Exactly. You are the arbiter if nothing.

Nor are you.

No, but I still win.

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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.

Not the ones you know does not equal “there are none.”

Cool rich kids in NY have not been preppy since Robert Chambers went to jail.

Whatever you want to think.

Exactly. You are the arbiter if nothing.

Nor are you.

No, but I still win.

Whatever makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside.

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A French Bulldog, or a 5 year plus old King Cavalier Spaniel

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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.

Not the ones you know does not equal “there are none.”

Cool rich kids in NY have not been preppy since Robert Chambers went to jail.

Whatever you want to think.

Exactly. You are the arbiter if nothing.

Nor are you.

No, but I still win.

Whatever makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside.

You made a silly assertion - that only NYC and NE kids can be preppy - and then made no case to support it. Move on from your bad outing.

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“You made a silly assertion - that only NYC and NE kids can be preppy - and then made no case to support it. Move on from your bad outing.”

I said kids in those areas are more likely to be preppy than Baltimore kids.

You responded by saying there are no NYC preppy kids.