At DC privates - Why are VA parents considered "inferior"?

[Anonymous]

We live in McLean and do private. We looked at houses in DC, Md and Va. Felt like DC was mostly run down with bad infrastructure, except for the houses we saw in Spring Valley, but hey, who wants to have munitions in their back yard? Saw some pretty houses in Md, but decided the commute would be too bad. Bought our house in McLean and really like it. We do private school because that is what everyone in our family does and has always done. No social climbing for us.

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Anonymous wrote:New to the DC area and currently live in VA with young kids not yet in school.

Maybe it's the same as in NYC where you are either in Manhattan or not? People can be snobby about the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, etc. When we lived in Manhattan, I thought it was a bit odd when people from NJ would bus their kids in to Manhattan for private school. I thought it was really inconvenient.

I think that's it, but the comical part is that MD can't seem to accept the fact that they're not 'Manhattan' either.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren't the Salahi's from NOVA?

No clue, but those of us from NoVa know how to use plural v. possessive correctly.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in McLean and do private. We looked at houses in DC, Md and Va. Felt like DC was mostly run down with bad infrastructure, except for the houses we saw in Spring Valley, but hey, who wants to have munitions in their back yard? Saw some pretty houses in Md, but decided the commute would be too bad. Bought our house in McLean and really like it. We do private school because that is what everyone in our family does and has always done. No social climbing for us.

+1000!!!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I completely agree with the perception that certain areas of nova is new money, with all the negative connotations that such a label brings. So I fully understand that those from the area who send their kids to private would be perceived as such- even by people who aren't old money. I'm not from old money and actually have the resources to live in the nouveau riche areas but don't want the negative taint on me or my kids or, even worse, my kids to get caught up in it.

NP here: Which parts of NoVA are considered "nouveaux riche" - I am curious. This thread is hilarious!

Pretty much all of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren't the Salahi's from NOVA?

They are not Protestant so no

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Anonymous wrote:Aren't the Salahi's from NOVA?

Wiki says he was born in DC!

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What a stupid and uninformed hate thread! I wonder if some NOVA children were accepted in privates while some DC and MD did not make the cut. Sounds like it to me. Oh, and by the way, if you send your kids, we'll be sure to hate them (not check the facts) just hate. You are not holding anyone back from accepting your spot and getting you off the wait list. Nice try, loser.

[Anonymous]

I live in DC and am bewildered that people choose to live in Northern VA. It seems to be full of strip malls, mcmansions, ridiculous traffic, allergies to urban planning, and a disregard for the environment. Parts of MD are similar, it's true.

The big concern I have, though, is this willingness to throw in with to good ol' boys in Richmond. Mandatory ultrasounds, Confederate History Day, laws that prevent gay couples from making each other next of kin for medical and financial decisions, and the shortest death penalty appeal process in the nation. Either you approve of all of this, or you don't mind subsidizing it with your taxes. That I just don't understand.

Low taxes are also not necessarily correlated with a high standard of living. MA and CT have high taxes, but also great schools, good medical care, low unemployment, and longer life expectancies

[Anonymous]

Isn't this just the tired VA versus MD debate again in a different forum?

Are we next going to debate whether EBF parents are more likely to go public versus private?

[Anonymous]

Bad stuffy and must grandma smelling houses is the smell of old money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in DC and am bewildered that people choose to live in Northern VA. It seems to be full of strip malls, mcmansions, ridiculous traffic, allergies to urban planning, and a disregard for the environment. Parts of MD are similar, it's true.

The big concern I have, though, is this willingness to throw in with to good ol' boys in Richmond. Mandatory ultrasounds, Confederate History Day, laws that prevent gay couples from making each other next of kin for medical and financial decisions, and the shortest death penalty appeal process in the nation. Either you approve of all of this, or you don't mind subsidizing it with your taxes. That I just don't understand.

Low taxes are also not necessarily correlated with a high standard of living. MA and CT have high taxes, but also great schools, good medical care, low unemployment, and longer life expectancies

DC sucks so bad they aren't allowed to vote

[Anonymous]

Yes, OP, you're right. For years, DH and I -- denizens of CC, MD (a very close-in section, of course) and parents at a Big 3 have been forced to pretend that we actually like these redneck parvenus. My God -- it was bad enough when one of our sons had a good pal living in McLean, but when DD told me her Homecoming date was from South Arlington, I had to retreat to my fainting couch. And the whole time, DH and I have been socializing with these people -- having dinner together, going for walks on the towpath, meeting for coffee, canvassing for Obama, etc., --we've had to mask our true opinion of them, which is, of course -- how the hell were they smart enough to figure out that just by buying a house on the other side of the river their kids could go to UVA or William&Mary or other great schools for practically peanuts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, OP, you're right. For years, DH and I -- denizens of CC, MD (a very close-in section, of course) and parents at a Big 3 have been forced to pretend that we actually like these redneck parvenus. My God -- it was bad enough when one of our sons had a good pal living in McLean, but when DD told me her Homecoming date was from South Arlington, I had to retreat to my fainting couch. And the whole time, DH and I have been socializing with these people -- having dinner together, going for walks on the towpath, meeting for coffee, canvassing for Obama, etc., --we've had to mask our true opinion of them, which is, of course -- how the hell were they smart enough to figure out that just by buying a house on the other side of the river their kids could go to UVA or William&Mary or other great schools for practically peanuts?

LOL South Arlington = Alexandria which is much nicer than North Arlington. Too funny you need to qualify that living in CC it is a "very close in section". Paranoid much?!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in DC and am bewildered that people choose to live in Northern VA. It seems to be full of strip malls, mcmansions, ridiculous traffic, allergies to urban planning, and a disregard for the environment. Parts of MD are similar, it's true.

The big concern I have, though, is this willingness to throw in with to good ol' boys in Richmond. Mandatory ultrasounds, Confederate History Day, laws that prevent gay couples from making each other next of kin for medical and financial decisions, and the shortest death penalty appeal process in the nation. Either you approve of all of this, or you don't mind subsidizing it with your taxes. That I just don't understand.

Low taxes are also not necessarily correlated with a high standard of living. MA and CT have high taxes, but also great schools, good medical care, low unemployment, and longer life expectancies

DC sucks so bad they aren't allowed to vote

+1000