What are some preppy hangouts in Baltimore/Dc

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Anonymous wrote:Howard County maybe? Columbia?

No , that’s mostly new money Asians. The old money white live north of Baltimore around Towson and Ruston areas and send their kids to private schools like Gilman, Bryn Mawr and McDonogh.

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THIS. DH and I are both from Baltimore, though I moved by high school. He went to a Baltimore private and when we go out, he runs into so many people from school and the first question people ask me is "where did you go to school?" and they do not mean college. Because I went to a public high school I am def a second class citizen in their eyes even though DH and I both went to the same prestigious undergrad and grad schools. It's hysterical.

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They are just trying to make themselves feel better that their parents wasted all that money on their elementary to high school years and they still ended up at the same college and grad school as you did with your measly public school education.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Preppy and Baltimore don't exactly cross paths.

You clearly do not know Baltimore. Plenty of preppy old money, probably more so than in DC.

Not downtown. And they hang out with each other’s homes or country club.

[Anonymous]

There is no place on earth more preppy than Annapolis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone here know what they're talking about? I don't know about Baltimore, but in DC, Georgetown is where you'd find your traditional preppy hangouts. You've missed the Late Night Shots boat by a few years, as the site has closed down and you'd need a private membership to join anyway, but that was a good place to find out where "the scene" was going for nights out. Or you could probably just go to Smith Point or Town Hall. These are bastions of preppyness in a scene of liberalness that is DC. The whole scene has actually been diluted though, as other spots like 14th Street/U Street have usurped the once magnetic draw Georgetown had on nightlife.

I am reminded of this City Paper article from that era: https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13005612/members-only-inside-the-elite-world-of-late-night-shots

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Anonymous wrote:I think you meant the Mount Washington Tavern, not the Mount Vernon (did you mean Mount Royal by MICA? There's no Mount Vernon Tavern, but there was the Midtown Yacht Club and was decidedly an...unique...hangout) But you'll find them at Brewer's Art, and if daddy's a member, at the Maryland Club.

20somethings like their fun just as much as others do.

Anonymous wrote:All my preppy friends from Baltimore meet up at the Mount Vernon Tavern or the Elkridge Club.

Yes, sorry. I did mean the Mt. Washington Tavern

I was going to suggest Mt Washington Tavern, but had no idea whether it still existed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Howard County maybe? Columbia?

No , that’s mostly new money Asians. The old money white live north of Baltimore around Towson and Ruston areas and send their kids to private schools like Gilman, Bryn Mawr and McDonogh.

That’s Ruston. As for Gilman, it is the St. Albans of Baltimore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Howard County maybe? Columbia?

No , that’s mostly new money Asians. The old money white live north of Baltimore around Towson and Ruston areas and send their kids to private schools like Gilman, Bryn Mawr and McDonogh.

That’s Ruston. As for Gilman, it is the St. Albans of Baltimore.

Typo for me too. Should say Ruxton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK I'll bite Georgetown and Old Town Alexandria for sure, malls are not preppy but if you HAVE to shop cross the bridge to the outlet mall in Queenstown, Md.

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/08/the-25-douchiest-bars-in-washington-dc/

And be sure to shop at Britches on Wisconsin Avenue. They have great stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no place on earth more preppy than Annapolis.

My in-laws (Falmouth, Massachusetts and Bar Harbor, Maine) would like to formally challenge your statement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OK I'll bite Georgetown and Old Town Alexandria for sure, malls are not preppy but if you HAVE to shop cross the bridge to the outlet mall in Queenstown, Md.

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/08/the-25-douchiest-bars-in-washington-dc/

And be sure to shop at Britches on Wisconsin Avenue. They have great stuff.

Britches? That's going back a minute. Their old spot is probably a cupcake place now or something. Try Sid/Ann Mashburn.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Preppy and Baltimore don't exactly cross paths.

You clearly do not know Baltimore. Plenty of preppy old money, probably more so than in DC.

Not downtown. And they hang out with each other’s homes or country club.

If waterfront is part of downtown (Canton, Fells, Fed, Harbor East) then yes, they live downtown. As a poster earlier this thread mentioned, they're not living in an apartment in Cockeysville.

When they get married and have kids, then they move to Ruxton or the valleys or Homeland, or if they're liberals, Roland Park.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
THIS. DH and I are both from Baltimore, though I moved by high school. He went to a Baltimore private and when we go out, he runs into so many people from school and the first question people ask me is "where did you go to school?" and they do not mean college. Because I went to a public high school I am def a second class citizen in their eyes even though DH and I both went to the same prestigious undergrad and grad schools. It's hysterical.

+100

They are just trying to make themselves feel better that their parents wasted all that money on their elementary to high school years and they still ended up at the same college and grad school as you did with your measly public school education.

Not really. They don't care about public schools. It's not a competition thing. Nor is it educational. It's a social thing. Gilman/Roland Park - Vanderbilt - T Rowe Price - house in Ruxton is more of a statement than public - Harvard - head of NGO in DC.

Mind you, with the rapidly escalating private school tuitions some of of them are even being forced to send the precious kiddies to public elementary schools and deferring private till 6th grade. Shocker.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is no place on earth more preppy than Annapolis.

My in-laws (Falmouth, Massachusetts and Bar Harbor, Maine) would like to formally challenge your statement.

I love this n annap and don’t consider it preppy. It is touristy, and pretty trashy. Some enclaves on the outside of town are preppy but I wouldn’t say the town as a whole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no place on earth more preppy than Annapolis.

My in-laws (Falmouth, Massachusetts and Bar Harbor, Maine) would like to formally challenge your statement.

I love this n annap and don’t consider it preppy. It is touristy, and pretty trashy. Some enclaves on the outside of town are preppy but I wouldn’t say the town as a whole.

Should say “live in annap”