I’ve observed that truly affluent families are blasé about where their kids go to college

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Anonymous wrote:They have their own disturbing caste system under that 'fun'. With shades of patriarchy and white supremacy thrown in. Trust.

So much this. The girls may be blasé and beautiful. But they feel enough pressure to maintain that facade and date and marry well that substance abuse and eating disorders are rampant. All that glitters is not gold.

Signed, Girl raised in the south who attended a college in the South with lots of sororities, alcohol, date rape, and EDs. I would rather my daughter stress about an economics exam than about maintaing her size 0 figure and getting in the right sorority so she can make the perfect tailgate cooler to snag the “right” guy, even if he treats her like crap. The Econ grade stress does a lot less long term emotional damage in the long run.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s easier to be rich in the south: low taxes and $1 million buys you a giant, nice house instead of a 2 bedroom $hitshack. But money doesn’t matter as much as who you’re related to.

Yeah, that’s the catch. You can’t buy your way into these circles. It matters which high school you went to, who your dad is, which country club your family belongs to.

Fascinating, isn't it? There are places like this all over the country. And DC is full of people who didn't fit in where they grew up, so they came here to start over.

Dude, if you think DC doesn’t have generational wealth, you’re clearly not in those circles. DC is not the land of kids without family connections picking themselves up by their bootstraps. The very notion is hilarious

And you could go to any major city in the US to find professionals who aren’t uber wealthy making it. In fact, it’s arguably easier to go from nothing to something in LCOL markets. That’s not DC

DC is absolutely more meritocratic than places where the interviewer was your high school bully or where you’re the only person of your race or ethnicity.

You need to get out of your bubble. Tx, eg, has 30 million people. You don’t run into your HS bully places. It also is a minority majority state — which means white are in the minority.
The problem w DC is the arrogance, and how little you know about the rest of the country. GET.OUT.MORE

DC is 38% white. So, also a majority minority “state”. That does mean the majority of minorities has real economic power in either place.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s easier to be rich in the south: low taxes and $1 million buys you a giant, nice house instead of a 2 bedroom $hitshack. But money doesn’t matter as much as who you’re related to.

Yeah, that’s the catch. You can’t buy your way into these circles. It matters which high school you went to, who your dad is, which country club your family belongs to.

Fascinating, isn't it? There are places like this all over the country. And DC is full of people who didn't fit in where they grew up, so they came here to start over.

Dude, if you think DC doesn’t have generational wealth, you’re clearly not in those circles. DC is not the land of kids without family connections picking themselves up by their bootstraps. The very notion is hilarious

And you could go to any major city in the US to find professionals who aren’t uber wealthy making it. In fact, it’s arguably easier to go from nothing to something in LCOL markets. That’s not DC

DC is absolutely more meritocratic than places where the interviewer was your high school bully or where you’re the only person of your race or ethnicity.

You need to get out of your bubble. Tx, eg, has 30 million people. You don’t run into your HS bully places. It also is a minority majority state — which means white are in the minority.
The problem w DC is the arrogance, and how little you know about the rest of the country. GET.OUT.MORE

Absolutely. I was in Dallas recently, and the most striking thing was how diverse the people around me were. Black, Hispanic, White, Asian…. Whether it was a hip, expensive restaurant or a diner. The population of DC is “diverse” but they don’t live together the way they do in large Texas cities. People are working and getting ahead and going out and having fun.

And perhaps the only place in the US that has more “nepo babies” than DC is Hollywood.

It’s crazy to me how arrogant DC is about diversity and equal opportunity yet has significantly less of it than other states that it likes to bash.

East coast rich acts no different than southern rich. They just won’t admit it. Check the college, money and private school boards. They’re obsessed with prestige, reputation, and bragging rts over name recognition. Plus, DC is arguably ground zero for nepotism in this country

The hypocrisy and arrogance are why Americans hate this place so much

Tell me you don’t live in or near DC without telling me you don’t live in or near DC. DC is 38% white and top to bottom is run by Black people. So, I’d say it’s doing a decent job in DEI.

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Anonymous wrote:Also those are not the 'truly affluent'.

+1 can you imagine the ‘truly affluent’ sending their kid to Alabama. Op, the ‘truly affluent’ have very likely never been within 1,000 miles of Alabama

The E coast lives in such a bubble. Yes, people in the south have money. Lots of it. And kids of high millionaires and billionaires go to schools across the south, UT, LSU, Ole Miss, SMU, and even Alabama.

I don’t think that you know what you’re talking about, PP

Yes, old plantation money or anything earned off the back if black slave labor.

Sad.

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Anonymous wrote:Also those are not the 'truly affluent'.

+1 can you imagine the ‘truly affluent’ sending their kid to Alabama. Op, the ‘truly affluent’ have very likely never been within 1,000 miles of Alabama

I am a New Yorker with kids in a top private and surrounded by billionaires and celebs. This is the truth. Their kids definitely go primarily to Ivies.

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Anonymous wrote:Also those are not the 'truly affluent'.

+1 can you imagine the ‘truly affluent’ sending their kid to Alabama. Op, the ‘truly affluent’ have very likely never been within 1,000 miles of Alabama

I knew somebody whose kid went to an average Southeastern Conference state school & met & married a Rockefeller who was a classmate there.

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Anonymous wrote:They have their own disturbing caste system under that 'fun'. With shades of patriarchy and white supremacy thrown in. Trust.

So much this. The girls may be blasé and beautiful. But they feel enough pressure to maintain that facade and date and marry well that substance abuse and eating disorders are rampant. All that glitters is not gold.

Signed, Girl raised in the south who attended a college in the South with lots of sororities, alcohol, date rape, and EDs. I would rather my daughter stress about an economics exam than about maintaing her size 0 figure and getting in the right sorority so she can make the perfect tailgate cooler to snag the “right” guy, even if he treats her like crap. The Econ grade stress does a lot less long term emotional damage in the long run.

So true. So many here just don’t get it.

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If you were truly affluent, would you send your kids to those LMAO

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Anonymous wrote:Also those are not the 'truly affluent'.

+1 can you imagine the ‘truly affluent’ sending their kid to Alabama. Op, the ‘truly affluent’ have very likely never been within 1,000 miles of Alabama

Yes, I can imagine it. There are "rich" people whose kids go to these schools. And live in Alabama. "Truly affluent" just means "has a lot of money." Not everyone aspires to attend an Ivy.

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Anonymous wrote:Also those are not the 'truly affluent'.

+1 can you imagine the ‘truly affluent’ sending their kid to Alabama. Op, the ‘truly affluent’ have very likely never been within 1,000 miles of Alabama

Yes, I can imagine it. There are "rich" people whose kids go to these schools. And live in Alabama. "Truly affluent" just means "has a lot of money." Not everyone aspires to attend an Ivy.

I know a large hanful of extremely wealth people, from this area, who have sent their daughters to Ole Miss, Auburn, etc. They aren't that "old money," generational wealth type, nor do they have the smarts. So meeting a wealthy, old money husband at one of those schools is definitely the goal, since Ivies aren't attainable.

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Anonymous wrote:Also those are not the 'truly affluent'.

+1 can you imagine the ‘truly affluent’ sending their kid to Alabama. Op, the ‘truly affluent’ have very likely never been within 1,000 miles of Alabama

I am a New Yorker with kids in a top private and surrounded by billionaires and celebs. This is the truth. Their kids definitely go primarily to Ivies.

The family we know with billions and no debt (assets you would recognize) - parents give zero sh-ts about where the kid goes - kid wants to go to a SLAC and is sweating admissions (bc parents really don’t give a sh-t where he goes so aren’t helping)

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Anonymous wrote:These are the people that I went to school with. No, they don’t care. Kids will never have to earn money and live off of trusts. It’s a totally different environment. And many of my friends had substance abuse issues. So much fun to be around

This.

In college, I was the poor friend and as the designated babysitter of the sloppiest addicts, I went on a lot of cool vacations for free. It was not fun. It was exhausting and terrifying.

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Anonymous wrote:Big deal.

Lori Loughlin‘s kids went to USC.

Lol and she went to jail!

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Anonymous wrote:Also those are not the 'truly affluent'.

+1 can you imagine the ‘truly affluent’ sending their kid to Alabama. Op, the ‘truly affluent’ have very likely never been within 1,000 miles of Alabama

The E coast lives in such a bubble. Yes, people in the south have money. Lots of it. And kids of high millionaires and billionaires go to schools across the south, UT, LSU, Ole Miss, SMU, and even Alabama.

I don’t think that you know what you’re talking about, PP

The Chrisleys come to mind.

The Murdaughs...

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Anonymous wrote:These are the people that I went to school with. No, they don’t care. Kids will never have to earn money and live off of trusts. It’s a totally different environment. And many of my friends had substance abuse issues. So much fun to be around

Funny I saw the opposite where the kids who went to small LAc without any sun grew depressed and started using.