I’ve observed that truly affluent families are blasé about where their kids go to college

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Anonymous wrote:It’s easier to be rich in the south: low taxes and $1 million buys you a giant, nice house instead of a 2 bedroom $hitshack. But money doesn’t matter as much as who you’re related to.

Yeah, that’s the catch. You can’t buy your way into these circles. It matters which high school you went to, who your dad is, which country club your family belongs to.

Fascinating, isn't it? There are places like this all over the country. And DC is full of people who didn't fit in where they grew up, so they came here to start over.

Like the land of misfit toys (in a good way!)

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Why do so many DCUMer think $$ is the end all and be all? Their role models seemed based on bank balances.

Affluent does not mean smart or educated or sophisticated.

I don't care of someone who lives in a McMansion in Alabama does not know enough to understand that a good education is worth more than a varsity letter.

What is the point of this post?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s easier to be rich in the south: low taxes and $1 million buys you a giant, nice house instead of a 2 bedroom $hitshack. But money doesn’t matter as much as who you’re related to.

Yeah, that’s the catch. You can’t buy your way into these circles. It matters which high school you went to, who your dad is, which country club your family belongs to.

Fascinating, isn't it? There are places like this all over the country. And DC is full of people who didn't fit in where they grew up, so they came here to start over.

I feel like you’ve never walked the halls of the Capitol and seen the interns and young staffers there. Or been in any Republican administration.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do so many DCUMer think $$ is the end all and be all? Their role models seemed based on bank balances.

Affluent does not mean smart or educated or sophisticated.

I don't care of someone who lives in a McMansion in Alabama does not know enough to understand that a good education is worth more than a varsity letter.

What is the point of this post?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s easier to be rich in the south: low taxes and $1 million buys you a giant, nice house instead of a 2 bedroom $hitshack. But money doesn’t matter as much as who you’re related to.

Yeah, that’s the catch. You can’t buy your way into these circles. It matters which high school you went to, who your dad is, which country club your family belongs to.

Fascinating, isn't it? There are places like this all over the country. And DC is full of people who didn't fit in where they grew up, so they came here to start over.

Dude, if you think DC doesn’t have generational wealth, you’re clearly not in those circles. DC is not the land of kids without family connections picking themselves up by their bootstraps. The very notion is hilarious

And you could go to any major city in the US to find professionals who aren’t uber wealthy making it. In fact, it’s arguably easier to go from nothing to something in LCOL markets. That’s not DC

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s easier to be rich in the south: low taxes and $1 million buys you a giant, nice house instead of a 2 bedroom $hitshack. But money doesn’t matter as much as who you’re related to.

Yeah, that’s the catch. You can’t buy your way into these circles. It matters which high school you went to, who your dad is, which country club your family belongs to.

Fascinating, isn't it? There are places like this all over the country. And DC is full of people who didn't fit in where they grew up, so they came here to start over.

Dude, if you think DC doesn’t have generational wealth, you’re clearly not in those circles. DC is not the land of kids without family connections picking themselves up by their bootstraps. The very notion is hilarious

And you could go to any major city in the US to find professionals who aren’t uber wealthy making it. In fact, it’s arguably easier to go from nothing to something in LCOL markets. That’s not DC

DC is absolutely more meritocratic than places where the interviewer was your high school bully or where you’re the only person of your race or ethnicity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s easier to be rich in the south: low taxes and $1 million buys you a giant, nice house instead of a 2 bedroom $hitshack. But money doesn’t matter as much as who you’re related to.

Yeah, that’s the catch. You can’t buy your way into these circles. It matters which high school you went to, who your dad is, which country club your family belongs to.

Fascinating, isn't it? There are places like this all over the country. And DC is full of people who didn't fit in where they grew up, so they came here to start over.

Dude, if you think DC doesn’t have generational wealth, you’re clearly not in those circles. DC is not the land of kids without family connections picking themselves up by their bootstraps. The very notion is hilarious

And you could go to any major city in the US to find professionals who aren’t uber wealthy making it. In fact, it’s arguably easier to go from nothing to something in LCOL markets. That’s not DC

DC is absolutely more meritocratic than places where the interviewer was your high school bully or where you’re the only person of your race or ethnicity.

You need to get out of your bubble. Tx, eg, has 30 million people. You don’t run into your HS bully places. It also is a minority majority state — which means white are in the minority.
The problem w DC is the arrogance, and how little you know about the rest of the country. GET.OUT.MORE

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s easier to be rich in the south: low taxes and $1 million buys you a giant, nice house instead of a 2 bedroom $hitshack. But money doesn’t matter as much as who you’re related to.

Yeah, that’s the catch. You can’t buy your way into these circles. It matters which high school you went to, who your dad is, which country club your family belongs to.

Fascinating, isn't it? There are places like this all over the country. And DC is full of people who didn't fit in where they grew up, so they came here to start over.

I feel like you’ve never walked the halls of the Capitol and seen the interns and young staffers there. Or been in any Republican administration.

Big difference. They won't stay here.

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Anonymous wrote:You have just met the “American Gentry” and I can assure you that their attendance at Alabama or LSU, the same as their joining those specific sororities and fraternities, was no mistake.

https://patrickwyman.substack.com/p/american-gentry

This is exactly it

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This post reminds me of the family from The Blind Side (who exist IRL). Dad owned Taco Bell franchises in Mississippi & Tennessee.

Or the Righteous Gemstones.

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Anonymous wrote:These are the people that I went to school with. No, they don’t care. Kids will never have to earn money and live off of trusts. It’s a totally different environment. And many of my friends had substance abuse issues. So much fun to be around

Good thing there are no kids of DC bureaucrats with substance abuse issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s easier to be rich in the south: low taxes and $1 million buys you a giant, nice house instead of a 2 bedroom $hitshack. But money doesn’t matter as much as who you’re related to.

Your information is very dated. You should get out of the DC area every now and then.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s easier to be rich in the south: low taxes and $1 million buys you a giant, nice house instead of a 2 bedroom $hitshack. But money doesn’t matter as much as who you’re related to.

Yeah, that’s the catch. You can’t buy your way into these circles. It matters which high school you went to, who your dad is, which country club your family belongs to.

Fascinating, isn't it? There are places like this all over the country. And DC is full of people who didn't fit in where they grew up, so they came here to start over.

I feel like you’ve never walked the halls of the Capitol and seen the interns and young staffers there. Or been in any Republican administration.

If you really knew any Hill staff you’d know that the real trust fund babies are on the D side. And non-profits.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s easier to be rich in the south: low taxes and $1 million buys you a giant, nice house instead of a 2 bedroom $hitshack. But money doesn’t matter as much as who you’re related to.

Yeah, that’s the catch. You can’t buy your way into these circles. It matters which high school you went to, who your dad is, which country club your family belongs to.

Fascinating, isn't it? There are places like this all over the country. And DC is full of people who didn't fit in where they grew up, so they came here to start over.

Dude, if you think DC doesn’t have generational wealth, you’re clearly not in those circles. DC is not the land of kids without family connections picking themselves up by their bootstraps. The very notion is hilarious

And you could go to any major city in the US to find professionals who aren’t uber wealthy making it. In fact, it’s arguably easier to go from nothing to something in LCOL markets. That’s not DC

DC is absolutely more meritocratic than places where the interviewer was your high school bully or where you’re the only person of your race or ethnicity.

You need to get out of your bubble. Tx, eg, has 30 million people. You don’t run into your HS bully places. It also is a minority majority state — which means white are in the minority.
The problem w DC is the arrogance, and how little you know about the rest of the country. GET.OUT.MORE

Absolutely. I was in Dallas recently, and the most striking thing was how diverse the people around me were. Black, Hispanic, White, Asian…. Whether it was a hip, expensive restaurant or a diner. The population of DC is “diverse” but they don’t live together the way they do in large Texas cities. People are working and getting ahead and going out and having fun.

And perhaps the only place in the US that has more “nepo babies” than DC is Hollywood.

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Anonymous wrote:Also those are not the 'truly affluent'.

+1 can you imagine the ‘truly affluent’ sending their kid to Alabama. Op, the ‘truly affluent’ have very likely never been within 1,000 miles of Alabama

The E coast lives in such a bubble. Yes, people in the south have money. Lots of it. And kids of high millionaires and billionaires go to schools across the south, UT, LSU, Ole Miss, SMU, and even Alabama.

I don’t think that you know what you’re talking about, PP

+1. I briefly attended a SEC school and lots of kids came from old money. They all had their little network from either attending some elite (to them) southern private HS or a public school in a "rich" neighborhood and were in the "top" sororities/fraternities together. They dated and hooked up within that network and were generally gorgeous.