Give me an old money neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:McLean, Bethesda, Georgetown and Kalorama are the only credited posts. Maybe Potomac or Great Falls.

Meh, even Potomac is a newcomer. It was mostly empty farm fields and trashy people into the 1970s. No "old money" was living there.

[Anonymous]

True, Potomac is trying to be the new Great Falls. Farther out than its ore prestigious brethren (McLean and Bethesda) but offers bigger lots and giant mansions.

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Anonymous wrote:McLean, Bethesda, Georgetown and Kalorama are the only credited posts. Maybe Potomac or Great Falls.

Agreed.

+2

[Anonymous]

Old town Alexandria

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Anonymous wrote:Edgemoor

Ha, ha, ha, ha. Bethesda was full of cement plants 50 years ago. You can't be serious.

Boy, do you sound jealous. Where is it that you live, Mrs. Wannabe?

It's true. Maloney Concrete was on the corner of Arlington Road and Bethesda Ave back in the 80s. They built Bethesda and were then forced out by the NJ come-heres.

[Anonymous]

Forest Hills, Chevy Chase Village, Burning Tree, Bradley Farms, Georgetown, Kent , Mass Ave Heights, Westmoreland Hills, Edgemoor.

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Anonymous wrote:Kenwood

Sadly it is changing over and "those" types are moving in

I mean, hello, people will eventually grow old and die. Or move. Eventually there will be more homes than family to take them over and when they sell, well, all money is green, the seller is not going to care if the person is old or new money, just money.

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Anonymous wrote:Old town Alexandria

Nope, sorry. Not even a little bit. 30-40 years ago Old Town was a complete slum. There was a teeny tiny little corner in the South end that had/has some nice houses but even those was frayed around the edges and not in any kind of genteel way. Maybe 150 years ago it was prosperous but by the mid 1900's Alexandria had fallen on really hard times. If you wonder about it, then look at all the new builds from the past 30-60 years. Those are either on old warehouse sites or former public housing sites. We have been around the area for a long while and helped bring about the change through investment so I definitely am speaking from first-hand knowledge.

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Anonymous wrote:Old town Alexandria

Nope, sorry. Not even a little bit. 30-40 years ago Old Town was a complete slum. There was a teeny tiny little corner in the South end that had/has some nice houses but even those was frayed around the edges and not in any kind of genteel way. Maybe 150 years ago it was prosperous but by the mid 1900's Alexandria had fallen on really hard times. If you wonder about it, then look at all the new builds from the past 30-60 years. Those are either on old warehouse sites or former public housing sites. We have been around the area for a long while and helped bring about the change through investment so I definitely am speaking from first-hand knowledge.

Does old money have to have lived in the exact same place for eternity?

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Anonymous wrote:Old town Alexandria

Nope, sorry. Not even a little bit. 30-40 years ago Old Town was a complete slum. There was a teeny tiny little corner in the South end that had/has some nice houses but even those was frayed around the edges and not in any kind of genteel way. Maybe 150 years ago it was prosperous but by the mid 1900's Alexandria had fallen on really hard times. If you wonder about it, then look at all the new builds from the past 30-60 years. Those are either on old warehouse sites or former public housing sites. We have been around the area for a long while and helped bring about the change through investment so I definitely am speaking from first-hand knowledge.

Does old money have to have lived in the exact same place for eternity?

No, but OP is asking about neighborhoods that have historically been 'old money'. Old Town isn't old money - although I guess we could agree that it is old. And there certainly isn't any 'old money' living there now.

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Anonymous wrote:Old town Alexandria

Nope, sorry. Not even a little bit. 30-40 years ago Old Town was a complete slum. There was a teeny tiny little corner in the South end that had/has some nice houses but even those was frayed around the edges and not in any kind of genteel way. Maybe 150 years ago it was prosperous but by the mid 1900's Alexandria had fallen on really hard times. If you wonder about it, then look at all the new builds from the past 30-60 years. Those are either on old warehouse sites or former public housing sites. We have been around the area for a long while and helped bring about the change through investment so I definitely am speaking from first-hand knowledge.

Does old money have to have lived in the exact same place for eternity?

No, but OP is asking about neighborhoods that have historically been 'old money'. Old Town isn't old money - although I guess we could agree that it is old. And there certainly isn't any 'old money' living there now.

Probably at least as much as in any part of Bethesda.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Old town Alexandria

Nope, sorry. Not even a little bit. 30-40 years ago Old Town was a complete slum. There was a teeny tiny little corner in the South end that had/has some nice houses but even those was frayed around the edges and not in any kind of genteel way. Maybe 150 years ago it was prosperous but by the mid 1900's Alexandria had fallen on really hard times. If you wonder about it, then look at all the new builds from the past 30-60 years. Those are either on old warehouse sites or former public housing sites. We have been around the area for a long while and helped bring about the change through investment so I definitely am speaking from first-hand knowledge.

Does old money have to have lived in the exact same place for eternity?

No, but OP is asking about neighborhoods that have historically been 'old money'. Old Town isn't old money - although I guess we could agree that it is old. And there certainly isn't any 'old money' living there now.

Probably at least as much as in any part of Bethesda.

Okay, you win! Done! Have a great evening!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think "old money" neighborhoods exist anymore.

I did grow up in a neighborhood that was classified as "old money" even back then but times were also different. It was an age of the Wasp hegemony. Social registers, private clubs, "coming out" debutantes, everyone had gone to the same handful of colleges and schools. My childhood neighborhood is still just as affluent as it ever was but it's no longer the Wasp bastion it once was. There are still Waspy families but there are now many other people too. There's no neat replica today of those kinds of neighborhoods you found in every American city up through the 1970s.

Hallelujah! The base of all that shit was exclusion based on the "right" kind of upbringing etc, but let's get real it was about excluding Jews, minorities, etc. from annals of power.