Signs you are a YUPPIE

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Baltimore and the surrounding area has WASPy, preppy enclaves. Has no one here ever heard of the Hunt Cup?

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Anonymous wrote:It's a dated term for sure.

Wouldn't call WF preppy. If you know Baltimore, Eddie's and Grauls are preppy. Grauls Ruxton especially, it's stepping back to 1985 in there. DC doesn't have an equivalent.

No one in Baltimore is preppy. People in New England and sometimes NYC can be preppy. No one in Baltimore ... lol.

You clearly are uncivilized. My Washington tavern was in the original preppy handbook ffs.

Stop trying to make Baltimore preppy happen. It isn’t going to happen. Preppy people are WASPs. WASPs don’t live in Baltimore.

Some of the preppiest people I know are Black. I think your definition doesn’t reflect modern reality.

You’re deluding yourself if you think Black people can actually find acceptance in these circles — there’s still a TON of racism everywhere, including there.

Trust me — I have a good friend who is in that exact position.

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore and the surrounding area has WASPy, preppy enclaves. Has no one here ever heard of the Hunt Cup?

Yeah, but again — nothing compared to the NYC/New England area.

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No one is saying Baltimore has the wealth of NYC (that is pretty obvious) but go to Hunt Valley or Greensping Valley and preppies will abound! The person earlier who kept saying preppy people don’t live in Baltimore has never actually been to that area I think. I come from a long line of distinguished Gilman men myself!

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Anonymous wrote:No one is saying Baltimore has the wealth of NYC (that is pretty obvious) but go to Hunt Valley or Greensping Valley and preppies will abound! The person earlier who kept saying preppy people don’t live in Baltimore has never actually been to that area I think. I come from a long line of distinguished Gilman men myself!

You’re actually the first person to admit it.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a dated term for sure.

Wouldn't call WF preppy. If you know Baltimore, Eddie's and Grauls are preppy. Grauls Ruxton especially, it's stepping back to 1985 in there. DC doesn't have an equivalent.

No one in Baltimore is preppy. People in New England and sometimes NYC can be preppy. No one in Baltimore ... lol.

You clearly are uncivilized. My Washington tavern was in the original preppy handbook ffs.

Stop trying to make Baltimore preppy happen. It isn’t going to happen. Preppy people are WASPs. WASPs don’t live in Baltimore.

Hmm.

You've never been to Baltimore. And you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

The Baltimore prep world is possibly one of the most old school prep world left these days.

+1. DH’s family is from northwest Baltimore and I have never meet people from there that more encapsulate the word “preppy”. Loooots of old money and very old school ways of doing things, that’s for sure.

Np here—- it’s totally true. If you can’t see it then you don’t know where to go or what to look for.

Hahahahaha ok.

Keep telling yourself that.

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore - where when someone asks where you went to school, they aren't asking about university

I'm not from there (DC native) but OMG, this. The person talking trash about Baltimore clearly has no clue.

Yeah, and it’s almost certainly nothing compared to wealthy parts of New England, NYC, and CT. When people ask where you went to high school in Manhattan, they want to know what prep school you went to. Then they want to know where your family summered and wintered — was it Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, or Southampton for the summers? Was it Tahoe or Vail for the winters?

Sorry, but Baltimore just has a fraction of the historic wealth that the Northeast has. I’m sure there are rich areas, but it’s nothing compared to the circles of people whose kids went to Horace Mann, Brearley, Chapin, or Dalton, and or maybe the New England boarding schools (Andover/Exeter/Deerfield, etc.) for high school. I was on the very edges of that world, as my parents own in Manhattan and I went to Andover, while my sister went to Horace Mann. I saw that wealth directly, even though my family—though rich—does not have that historic affluence.

I went to a party at a school friend’s family’s apartment on Central Park West. They own 3 entire floors of their building and have a private elevator. She’s never been on the subway because her driver takes her everywhere. Another one of my friends from Andover has a building at Harvard with his family’s name on it. Another one is 3rd generation Princeton and Yale legacy. These are kids who grow up and do not have to work. Instead, they use their family’s wealth to establish VC funds and philanthropic foundations.

That’s preppy. It’s old money. I have an extremely hard time believing that anything in Baltimore compares, despite the existence of perhaps some small pockets of rich families.

To the person who asked above: Yes, yuppie is different from preppy. Ultimately, preppy refers to people who are WASPs, went to prep school, have country club memberships, and are comfortable in places like the very wealthy areas of Long Island, Connecticut, Martha’s Vineyard, and Manhattan. Yes, there are people who dress in sort of a preppy way, but they’re really just pretending, unless they have the lifestyle to go along with it.

I hope this recitation made you feel good, but it doesn't change the fact that the original statement, that no one in Baltimore is preppy, is flat out wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore - where when someone asks where you went to school, they aren't asking about university

I'm not from there (DC native) but OMG, this. The person talking trash about Baltimore clearly has no clue.

Yeah, and it’s almost certainly nothing compared to wealthy parts of New England, NYC, and CT. When people ask where you went to high school in Manhattan, they want to know what prep school you went to. Then they want to know where your family summered and wintered — was it Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, or Southampton for the summers? Was it Tahoe or Vail for the winters?

Sorry, but Baltimore just has a fraction of the historic wealth that the Northeast has. I’m sure there are rich areas, but it’s nothing compared to the circles of people whose kids went to Horace Mann, Brearley, Chapin, or Dalton, and or maybe the New England boarding schools (Andover/Exeter/Deerfield, etc.) for high school. I was on the very edges of that world, as my parents own in Manhattan and I went to Andover, while my sister went to Horace Mann. I saw that wealth directly, even though my family—though rich—does not have that historic affluence.

I went to a party at a school friend’s family’s apartment on Central Park West. They own 3 entire floors of their building and have a private elevator. She’s never been on the subway because her driver takes her everywhere. Another one of my friends from Andover has a building at Harvard with his family’s name on it. Another one is 3rd generation Princeton and Yale legacy. These are kids who grow up and do not have to work. Instead, they use their family’s wealth to establish VC funds and philanthropic foundations.

That’s preppy. It’s old money. I have an extremely hard time believing that anything in Baltimore compares, despite the existence of perhaps some small pockets of rich families.

To the person who asked above: Yes, yuppie is different from preppy. Ultimately, preppy refers to people who are WASPs, went to prep school, have country club memberships, and are comfortable in places like the very wealthy areas of Long Island, Connecticut, Martha’s Vineyard, and Manhattan. Yes, there are people who dress in sort of a preppy way, but they’re really just pretending, unless they have the lifestyle to go along with it.

I hope this recitation made you feel good, but it doesn't change the fact that the original statement, that no one in Baltimore is preppy, is flat out wrong.

My point is that it’s nothing compared to the NYC area, which so far only one person has admitted is true.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a dated term for sure.

Wouldn't call WF preppy. If you know Baltimore, Eddie's and Grauls are preppy. Grauls Ruxton especially, it's stepping back to 1985 in there. DC doesn't have an equivalent.

No one in Baltimore is preppy. People in New England and sometimes NYC can be preppy. No one in Baltimore ... lol.

You clearly are uncivilized. My Washington tavern was in the original preppy handbook ffs.

Stop trying to make Baltimore preppy happen. It isn’t going to happen. Preppy people are WASPs. WASPs don’t live in Baltimore.

Some of the preppiest people I know are Black. I think your definition doesn’t reflect modern reality.

You’re deluding yourself if you think Black people can actually find acceptance in these circles — there’s still a TON of racism everywhere, including there.

Trust me — I have a good friend who is in that exact position.

That doesn’t mean they’re not preppy.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the term still Yuppie? That’s so late 80s/early 90s

I know! If you are over 55 you might be a yuppie. But now you are old!!

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Anonymous wrote:It's a dated term for sure.

Wouldn't call WF preppy. If you know Baltimore, Eddie's and Grauls are preppy. Grauls Ruxton especially, it's stepping back to 1985 in there. DC doesn't have an equivalent.

No one in Baltimore is preppy. People in New England and sometimes NYC can be preppy. No one in Baltimore ... lol.

You clearly are uncivilized. My Washington tavern was in the original preppy handbook ffs.

Stop trying to make Baltimore preppy happen. It isn’t going to happen. Preppy people are WASPs. WASPs don’t live in Baltimore.

Some of the preppiest people I know are Black. I think your definition doesn’t reflect modern reality.

You’re deluding yourself if you think Black people can actually find acceptance in these circles — there’s still a TON of racism everywhere, including there.

Trust me — I have a good friend who is in that exact position.

That doesn’t mean they’re not preppy.

They’re sadly not accepted in those circles. It’s the crappy reality.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a dated term for sure.

Wouldn't call WF preppy. If you know Baltimore, Eddie's and Grauls are preppy. Grauls Ruxton especially, it's stepping back to 1985 in there. DC doesn't have an equivalent.

No one in Baltimore is preppy. People in New England and sometimes NYC can be preppy. No one in Baltimore ... lol.

You clearly are uncivilized. My Washington tavern was in the original preppy handbook ffs.

Stop trying to make Baltimore preppy happen. It isn’t going to happen. Preppy people are WASPs. WASPs don’t live in Baltimore.

Some of the preppiest people I know are Black. I think your definition doesn’t reflect modern reality.

You’re deluding yourself if you think Black people can actually find acceptance in these circles — there’s still a TON of racism everywhere, including there.

Trust me — I have a good friend who is in that exact position.

That doesn’t mean they’re not preppy.

They’re sadly not accepted in those circles. It’s the crappy reality.

Fresh prince of bel air

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Anonymous wrote:It's a dated term for sure.

Wouldn't call WF preppy. If you know Baltimore, Eddie's and Grauls are preppy. Grauls Ruxton especially, it's stepping back to 1985 in there. DC doesn't have an equivalent.

No one in Baltimore is preppy. People in New England and sometimes NYC can be preppy. No one in Baltimore ... lol.

You clearly are uncivilized. My Washington tavern was in the original preppy handbook ffs.

Stop trying to make Baltimore preppy happen. It isn’t going to happen. Preppy people are WASPs. WASPs don’t live in Baltimore.

Some of the preppiest people I know are Black. I think your definition doesn’t reflect modern reality.

You’re deluding yourself if you think Black people can actually find acceptance in these circles — there’s still a TON of racism everywhere, including there.

Trust me — I have a good friend who is in that exact position.

That doesn’t mean they’re not preppy.

They’re sadly not accepted in those circles. It’s the crappy reality.

Fresh prince of bel air

[Anonymous]

I recommend the 1990’s film, Metropolitan, see if you identify.

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Anonymous wrote:I can admit we’re yuppies:

- Starbucks latte every morning

- Shop at WF, especially for fish and cheese

- Spent $100K on renovations to our house

- Completely networked Apple devices, including two Home Pods, three iPads, and WiFi-enabled lights and fans that we can control from our phones

- Bar cart on our main level that DH uses to make old fashions

- Nespresso machine

- Subscriptions to the NYTimes and The Economist

you guys sounds pretty basic

It’s almost embarrassing.

And you sound like basic bitches ... emphasis on the bitches.

I also love how you think that list of about a half-dozen items encompasses our whole lives, such that you can declare us “basic” from it. Hilarious.

I'm not going so far as to call people bitches but yes, this very basic, pedestrian stuff that professional people do and have.