Why does the DC area have so many country clubs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Property taxes. My state taxes private pool clubs, country clubs and golf course at full property taxes. Very few exist. Why should the poor subsidize the risk? Take away their tax status in DMV

Ding ding ding.

This is a huge reason why so many *still* exist here. Imagine what would happen if the big exclusive country clubs in Montgomery County had to pay taxes based on market rate value?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cause there are a lot of cringe weirdos in DC

I swear people who join country clubs are the ones who are trying to look wealthier than they are. Or those obsessed with status. I went to a top private school and the wealthiest students were not part of a country club. We all had our own pools at home and vacationed in Europe instead. One kid in my grade even had tennis courts at his house

If only one kid in your class had a tennis court, your school wasn’t that wealthy.

[Anonymous]

This is the East Coast. Every city on the East Coast has country clubs and social clubs. Most of them have been around since the economic boom post WW2, but many precede even that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cause there are a lot of cringe weirdos in DC

I swear people who join country clubs are the ones who are trying to look wealthier than they are. Or those obsessed with status. I went to a top private school and the wealthiest students were not part of a country club. We all had our own pools at home and vacationed in Europe instead. One kid in my grade even had tennis courts at his house

A lot of them have parents who pay their membership fees. It’s a social thing. They want to eat dinner with the same people once a week and not at home.

[Anonymous]

Nobody joins a country club to eat. They join for golf and tennis, primarily, then pool. All other factors are tiny. There’s only food so people can eat conveniently while they golf, play tennis and swim. Often they impose a food minimum to keep the kitchen costs in something like balance, so more people are sitting in the dining room. But it’s not like they join for the food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remember that the DMV is Southern. A lot of social life historically revolved around clubs, especially Congressional.

No. Congressional was the new money, garish club when I was growing up in the 80s.
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