FWIW, there are a number of T20 alum in this bracket who cleave onto their BAs as they feel they have nothing left to brandish - they are average professionals making far less than their parents (in proportion to current costs for housing, etc) while working more hours to do it. I've now started replying when getting the shade about attending a school they've "never heard about" - "well, either my life has turned out spectacularly or yours hasn't given that we are now in same milieu." |
Yeah, there are plenty of people in the DMV who don't think a top college is the end-all-be-all. And their kids are fine. |
+1 My mother somehow thinks I’ve failed because I grew up in Bethesda and now live in Silver Spring. I have zero desire to move back or to send my kids to the high school I attended. My kids have a MUCH happier childhood than I did. I hope that sticks with them. |
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Wow, OP you mean born rich kids who attended selective private universities that aren’t Ivy League are successful (and/or live lavish lifestyles off trusts and inheritance)?
Thanks for teaching us rubes a thing or two. I mean who knew Villanova was a laughing stock degree mill………… |
Middle middle class schmucks. Ocean City is fine, nice -- really! -- but the well to do Philadelphians don't summer there. |
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Absolutely. 100 percent. |
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Villanova is a very selective top 50 university and costs over $70,000 a year. For decades it’s been known as a smart and rich (Catholic) kid school; for kids that can’t get into Duke or Notre Dame, which frequently reject Eagle Scouts with perfect stats.
This honestly thread is really, really stupid. Rich kids are almost always fairly successful. They have good genetics, money, connections, attend the best k-12, dress well, high social IQ, and tend to graduate from college on time. Add in the inheritance from parents and grandparents, and of course they never fall down a class rung. It’s only a cope by middle class message board dwellers that all these rich kids are dumb, lazy, crash and burn in college, and turn into workshy druggies. |
I live in the DMV and just never drank the kool aid. Too bad for your kids that you were not an independent thinker, and got caught up in the hype. |
They do these days. 1 million gets you a floor of a duplex multiple blocks from the beach. Oceanfront is 5-10 million a floor for a duplex. if this much money for a second home is middle class for you then you live on a different planet then I do. Our DC neighbors who are at at Big3 just spent 8 million on an OCNJ duplex. |
You're misunderstanding. OP painted a scenario of rich families summering at a high end beach who all send their kids to St Joe's, suggesting that that goes to show that you don't need top 20 schools for your kids. I don't think you need top 20 schools regardless, but her depiction doesn't jive with reality. The kids are working, she's working, the town is nice but not high end, and the people she is associating with aren't wealthy either. They're just people, and they're also people who -- or whose parents -- bought these houses way back when when the prices were much cheaper. If she's saying, "you know what? I'm fine with my kids just being people," then she can put her money where her mouth is an put them in a "just people" public school. |
If you grew up in Villanova with an idyllic childhood, you already had money. So you don’t need a top school or a top job— you can live off your inheritance. People strive to get out of the lower class so they too can buy a home in Villanova and give their kids an idyllic childhood. It’s easier if your kids aren’t competing against these strivers, so please send them to St. Joe’s. |
Scroll through these two links and see the difference for yourself. You won't have to go very far to see that there are many, many affordable properties in Ocean City. Stone Harbor? Not so much. https://www.redfin.com/city/14076/NJ/Ocean-City https://www.redfin.com/city/18146/NJ/Stone-Harbor |
+1. It’s all fun and games until the inheritance runs out. |
+1. Is OP even working? WTF? This is the problem when wealth is concentrated. People like OP don’t even know what it’s like to be poor and know that a top school is your golden ticket out of the mess. |