Where do the old money families in the DC area live?

[Anonymous]

Please help me settle a really stupid argument I'm having with a friend. Where do the old money families live? DC? Va? Md? West Va (just kidding)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please help me settle a really stupid argument I'm having with a friend. Where do the old money families live? DC? Va? Md? West Va (just kidding)?

SE it is a hidden gem over there and they created this story that it is a really bad area to keep others out. Go check it out.

[Anonymous]

Chevy Chase

[Anonymous]

Chevy Chase Maryland

[Anonymous]

A number live in G'town or the area near NCS/STA.

[Anonymous]

Kenwood, Edgemoor and Greenich Forest

not many of the old ladies left

[Anonymous]

Is there such a thing here in the US?

[Anonymous]

How about McLean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kenwood, Edgemoor and Greenich Forest

not many of the old ladies left

What a joke. These are baby suburbs (1920s) compared to neighborhoods like Georgetown.

[Anonymous]

Leesburg..not the new developments but the old horse farms. McLean. Georgetown. Spring Valley.

[Anonymous]

That's the thing about true old money. How would you know?

[Anonymous]

There isn't really any in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kenwood, Edgemoor and Greenich Forest

not many of the old ladies left

What a joke. These are baby suburbs (1920s) compared to neighborhoods like Georgetown.

If you're talking about teh age of neighborhoods, then you should know that most of Georgetown was a slum in the 1920s.

[Anonymous]

There are no truly "old money" families in DC. There's some in pockets of Virginia (not northern). There is a concentration of WASP families in Chevy Chase, MD but they aren't and never have been really wealthy.

[Anonymous]

Middleburg, Va. Rappahannock County, Va.

North of Baltimore in Hunt Valley area.

Outside of Annapolis on the Severn River.

Those are the true, old WASP concentrations.

Georgetown has "old women with a lot of money" but I'd sign over my deed if more than a few have been here more than 3 generations. Instead, the old ones tend to be widows of guys who moved to Washington from 1930-1950 to work in the Administrations. Older than I am, yes, but not "old money."

Same for the Village of Chevy Chase, Md. below Bradley Blvd., and Newark/Macomb sts. in Cleveland Park. Being 81 with money isn't the same thing as "old money."