Where do wealthy DC folks have weekend homes?

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Anonymous wrote:Waterfront real estate is often in the millions. Even up in the 10+ millions for proper estates with dozens to hundreds of acres. Lots of duck hunting and shooting on private preserves.

You do have a range of options but there's plenty of expensive property and plenty of DC money in and around Easton.

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely Easton MD. At least somewhat wealthy DC types seem to own a number of larger homes there.

Given that it's pretty inexpensive to buy around there, I guess I must be considered "wealthy", even though at my income you DCUM types would call me a "poor".

Waterfront real estate may well be but Easton is not on the water.

The Tred Avon flows into Easton and plenty of properties on the Tred Avon and Miles rivers have Easton mailing addresses. Go to Redfin and type in Easton and just see for yourself. The town itself serves the surrounding waterfront communities. Just because the town center isn't smack dab on a river doesn't mean it's not part of the waterfront region.

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Anonymous wrote:The truly wealthy in DC don't vacation around here. They are gone to the Vineyard, Nantucket, Maine, or the Cape. Or, if winter, a ski house in the Rockies (Aspen/Vail, Sun Valley or Jackson Hole).

Yes -- or, if they like warm weather, Kiawah.

This is hilarious. We are definitely not wealthy and vacation in Maine every year and have also stayed in Kiawah. They don't seem like places wealthy people go. Kiawah in particular was not posh by any means.

We're at Kiawah now. But must be a different Kiawah from the one you deride.

Strange. I'm pretty sure there's only one. It was nice but not fancy. Homes we're pretty modest.

NP here: you must not have been on the private side of the island! The homes there are huge and quite posh. And even the ones that may not seem like much on the outside are still worth in the millions. Not to mention all the fees you pay to own a home there plus extra if you want to golf or tennis. Kiawah is not for the poor.

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The title of this thread is where people in DC have weekend homes, not where people have vacation homes. Even if people fly private, it isn't practical or even really possible to have a home to visit on a weekend basis that geographically is very far. Sure, they may have a vacation home or summer or ski in some super nice place where they own property, but as for a weekend home, the ones I know have a place a few hours away, like on Eastern Shore.

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Anonymous wrote:The middle/ upper middle class people I know with second homes have them in WV, Shenandoah, or one of the cheaper European countries (Croatia etc).

The old guard have homes on the Eastern shore, but DC doesn't have much of an old guard.

Most people in DC are new to the area, new money, and very well traveled. My average middle class DC friends are far more well traveled than my dotcom millionaire friends back in SF. I think people are not fighting traffic to visit the same place year after year. People who do that usually have family ties on the Cape etc.

You talking about middle or upper middle class. The question was not even about rich people, but about wealthy.

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Anonymous wrote:The truly wealthy in DC don't vacation around here. They are gone to the Vineyard, Nantucket, Maine, or the Cape. Or, if winter, a ski house in the Rockies (Aspen/Vail, Sun Valley or Jackson Hole).

Yes -- or, if they like warm weather, Kiawah.

This is hilarious. We are definitely not wealthy and vacation in Maine every year and have also stayed in Kiawah. They don't seem like places wealthy people go. Kiawah in particular was not posh by any means.

We're at Kiawah now. But must be a different Kiawah from the one you deride.

Strange. I'm pretty sure there's only one. It was nice but not fancy. Homes we're pretty modest.

NP here: you must not have been on the private side of the island! The homes there are huge and quite posh. And even the ones that may not seem like much on the outside are still worth in the millions. Not to mention all the fees you pay to own a home there plus extra if you want to golf or tennis. Kiawah is not for the poor.

Another NP and I agree. I don't understand how you can travel throughout the island of Kiawah and not understand that it is a playground for the wealthy.

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agree, drive down Ocean Course Dr and tell me how those homes are not for the wealthy. Also, let me know how easy it is to get membership / tee time on the Ocean Course.

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This is sort of meaningless. DC does not have a lot of old money -- city was small, and too much population churn. Much of then new money is untethered by traditional notions of distance because of private jet transport The best answer is St. Michael's but you're not going to find anything in St. Michael's that remotely resembles the posh weekend enclaves of the more affluent, larger cities.

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Anonymous wrote:Middleburg for old horsey money
Easton/Oxford for Eastern shore
Gibson Island for this side of the bay

This is the correct answer.

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NYC has many posh weekend enclaves but outside of NYC what other cities have weekend enclaves? I think why NYC has them is because it's such an intensely urban city that many residents seek escape to someplace leafier, greener or on the water for weekends. The rest of America's cities aren't so urban and the rich people usually already live in suburban or SFH environments so the desire for a weekend place isn't so present. Summer houses are completely different, of course.

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This is sort of meaningless. DC does not have a lot of old money -- city was small, and too much population churn. Much of then new money is untethered by traditional notions of distance because of private jet transport The best answer is St. Michael's but you're not going to find anything in St. Michael's that remotely resembles the posh weekend enclaves of the more affluent, larger cities.

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Anonymous wrote:Middleburg for old horsey money
Easton/Oxford for Eastern shore
Gibson Island for this side of the bay

This is the correct answer.

It's actually not the correct answer. The better answer is Bethany Beach, on the east side of Ocean Highway. Even the old dumpy houses are selling for $1 million plus.

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Anonymous wrote:Middleburg for old horsey money
Easton/Oxford for Eastern shore
Gibson Island for this side of the bay

This is the correct answer.

It's actually not the correct answer. The better answer is Bethany Beach, on the east side of Ocean Highway. Even the old dumpy houses are selling for $1 million plus.

So are houses in Duck and Corolla (houses right on the beach will run you several mil) but people on here sneer at the OBX as a sewer.

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The truly wealthy do not know what a weekend is. They have summer homes in the Hamptons.
Working rich, go to Bethany Beach or Rehoboth Beach on their weekend.

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Anonymous wrote:The truly wealthy in DC don't vacation around here. They are gone to the Vineyard, Nantucket, Maine, or the Cape. Or, if winter, a ski house in the Rockies (Aspen/Vail, Sun Valley or Jackson Hole).

Yes -- or, if they like warm weather, Kiawah.

They may have vacation homes in these places but OP is asking about weekend houses. Unless they have a PP they don't have weekend houses in those places.

I'm one of the pp (and I don't have a PP!), but I know people who have "weekend" houses in these places. They fly commercial. It's not hard to fly to Boston, for example, and drive to the Vineyard. I've gone to the Vineyard for the weekend (to a friend's house). Most people who have that much money have fairly flexible work schedules/can work from "home" one day a week. Maine is a little harder, but you can fly to Bangor and drive to Bar Harbor. There are direct flights to Jackson in the winter.

Getting car ferry reservations to "the Vineyard" can be a bitch.

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Anonymous wrote:Rappahanock county (VA) has become popular --- know many wealthy families who have bought country homes in that area.

Ha ha ha. No

I'm actually one of the Vineyard/Jackson/Kiawah posters -- but I do know a couple of wealthy people who have big horse farms in Rappahannock County. They tend to live out there and keep a place in DC for when they don't want to make the drive.

Sorry, but it's true. I know first hand. People own country homes near Little Washington. Same people own homes in Nantucket and Palm Beach --- but this is their quick getaway.

Upper Marlboro?

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Anonymous wrote:The truly wealthy in DC don't vacation around here. They are gone to the Vineyard, Nantucket, Maine, or the Cape. Or, if winter, a ski house in the Rockies (Aspen/Vail, Sun Valley or Jackson Hole).

Yes -- or, if they like warm weather, Kiawah.

They may have vacation homes in these places but OP is asking about weekend houses. Unless they have a PP they don't have weekend houses in those places.

I'm one of the pp (and I don't have a PP!), but I know people who have "weekend" houses in these places. They fly commercial. It's not hard to fly to Boston, for example, and drive to the Vineyard. I've gone to the Vineyard for the weekend (to a friend's house). Most people who have that much money have fairly flexible work schedules/can work from "home" one day a week. Maine is a little harder, but you can fly to Bangor and drive to Bar Harbor. There are direct flights to Jackson in the winter.

Getting car ferry reservations to "the Vineyard" can be a bitch.

People who own houses on the island get first crack at ferry reservations.