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Anonymous
Old money? In DC? That’s laughable. This is a straight new money town and the new money isn’t in old town. |
Anonymous
Lol—that would be news to the wealthy families that have lived in Georgetown for 4 to 5+ generations. There’s money that’s so old in DC, it has existed/resided here since before the US was a country. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
My family has been in Virginia since the 1600s. There’s old money in Virginia, DC and Maryland. This is dumb. There’s money that’s so old in DC, it has existed/resided here since before the US was a country. |
Anonymous
| This money talk is hysterical. People get weird about driving outside of their bubble. So if you attend school further away, some folks are not going to want to have to drive to your house. This is especially true when there is a river that needs to be crossed. I would imagine that DC and MD families that send their kids to Potomac or other VA schools have the same issue VA families who attend DC schools face. |
Anonymous
LOL. A crest! |
Anonymous
Old minimal money. But name these big money types. The Carrolls were the wealthiest family in America at the time of the Revolution, owned large tracts of Maryland and what is now DC and those that are left here now have very little. Most of your “old” money types are in the same boat. On the other hand, people like the McLeans, or Dodges, and then the Mellons, for examples, came from far away and established homes here but even those passed out of their families a long time ago. The Mars family is new money so their presence nearby makes sense. Yall don’t know what you are talking about. This has never been a high wealth area and what wealth there has been has largely waxed and waned but not really sustained. |
Anonymous
Which private? We are in VA thinking about applying to privates in the next few years and worry about the bias, tempted to focus only on Potomac. |
Anonymous
Funded a railroad is about 200 years late, buckoo. How about started away offshore in 1650 or so with a branch in Philly. Ships, trade, whaling, printing, factories, land, coal, oil etc etc gets you there not some latter day upstarts. |
Anonymous
I wouldn’t brag about my ancestors being plantation-owning enslavers. That’s not old money, that’s stolen money. |
Anonymous
| Not at our at our DC private. |
Anonymous
| Just wait until college admissions rolls around and everybody wishes they lived in VA. |
Anonymous
Why would they? |
Anonymous
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I had relatives at Jamestown, so I've been around longer than any of you n00bs... of course, my relatives were smart and LEFT Virginia very quickly because they could see that it was just going to turn into a state where you either have to live in some kind of creepy Confederacy cosplay routine OR suburban sprawl that is more expensive than New Jersey, but not as charming.
Face it, Virginia is where unimaginative people go to get a ticky-tacky mcmansion where they can spend their free hours nuking the lawn with cancer-causing mosquito treatments. That's why people in DC think you're inferior. Maybe it's not true, but we all think it is. |
Anonymous
Yeah cause Maryland has completely avoided the McMansion/mosquito spraying craze. Look, I think you are probably one of those upper NW people who think all non DC addresses are suspect. Gotcha. You aren’t my people either. You all are so uptight and competitive. Too many BigLaw bigwig a**holes. And your neighborhoods are weird to me. Virginia (and probably MD) McMansions are filled with families and often time big fun families, meaning neighborhoods consist of kids running around together and outside. And you get to know your neighbors. In Virginia, our friends go out on their boats on Friday afternoon and drink beer and play music. It’s more… fun. Life is generally easier and more enjoyable and less stick up your a**. But to each his own. |