Where does this mom stereotype live?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is so off. I live on a side street of Rockwood Pky (Spring Valley), went to a top 10 liberal arts college, drive a 10 yr old Mercedes station wagon, don't shop new money designer stores (it looks tacky when people can see your label), and [/b]even though I have a nanny I stay at home and raise my kids. I've never been to OBX, we tend to summer further up north[b] and I'm pretty much par for the course in my social circle.

These families with leased Range Rovers and no money in the bank at the end of the month or no trust funds for their kids and thus will have to apply for financial aid or send them to a large state school are comical.

sahm with a nanny and using the noun 'summer' as a verb is what I'd expect. I associate the designer tacky jeans with Potomac or outer MoCO suburbs--def. not Spring Valley. The woman above is the EXACT stereotype I had for that part of NW---not saying there is nothing wrong with it...just that it's spot on!

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This thread is utterly insane, it is like Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction writ large.

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Anonymous wrote:Do all of the "highly" educated, crunchy moms out there really want people to start describing you? Wouldn't be pretty... no pun intended.

I'll do it. North Arlington moms have masters degrees, wear quilted jackets and fleece vests, don't wear makeup--more of the "freshly scrubbed" look like they just got back from a hike, drive Subarus, stay home with the kids at least part-time until they return to their non-profit jobs when the kids are older, kids aren't allowed to watch TV--there may not even be a TV in the house. I'm not one of them, but I know many and they're really nice people.

Does a down winter coat count as a quilted jacket?
Also, I own a fleece vest but only wear it when camping

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Anonymous wrote:>> sorry, more. Mom is somewhat older, definitely have kids at 30. She is typically white but not WASP. There is a good chance she is Jewish, higher than the metro population at large.

She is not fashionable, but also not dowdy. Just ... Banana or Ann Taylor and Macy's. Does not wear big rock, would not fly with uber-serious downtown job.

Oh no, that almost describes me to a tee. Eeek. I'm going to guess Chevy Chase DC b/c that's where I live.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in Prince George's County. Have a graduate degree. And my designer is Merona. I'm not crunchy. Just sloppy. I feel anxious when I go to Tysons or Montgomery Mall. Thank god the standard is so low around here. I live in a MILF-free zone.

I'm with you. I'd love for someone to try and guess where I live... DH and I went to big in-state and "public Ivy" in-state school. Definitely not a big rock as DH scrimped and saved and bought it for me with cash while we were still in college. BMW for the husband and Honda SUV for myself. Loves Target. Kids are outfitted in babyGap - not Hanna Andersson or Janie and Jack. Condo - no McMansion here. No debt, no nanny and also no inheritance. Both work FT. I think we're really normal and I don't think we'd fit in with most of these posters at all... oh well.

I'll guess. Definitely Va. not Md -- b/c of the condo thing (not that there aren't any in MoCo) and the "public Ivy" comment. There are no public Ivies in Md and people tend (for the most part) to stay Md if they are Md people, Va types stay Va. So he must've gone to UVa (or maybe Michigan) and you to W&M, unless you both went to UVA, not clear from your post. I'm thinking Arlington or NW DC? If you lived in a PGCo condo, your BMW would have cardboard in the windows. (I'm the PG poster)

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I'm guessing the reston/ashburn VA suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Crunchy N Arlington mom here, and by all means, call me ugly. Even sticks and stones can't hurt me through my quilted jacket.

Besides, bickering about personal aesthetics is not the Arlington Way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do all of the "highly" educated, crunchy moms out there really want people to start describing you? Wouldn't be pretty... no pun intended.

I'll do it. North Arlington moms have masters degrees, wear quilted jackets and fleece vests, don't wear makeup--more of the "freshly scrubbed" look like they just got back from a hike, drive Subarus, stay home with the kids at least part-time until they return to their non-profit jobs when the kids are older, kids aren't allowed to watch TV--there may not even be a TV in the house. I'm not one of them, but I know many and they're really nice people.

This is me to a T except that I live in Bethesda and my kids watch tv - way too much in fact.

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I love my fleece vest(s)!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in Prince George's County. Have a graduate degree. And my designer is Merona. I'm not crunchy. Just sloppy. I feel anxious when I go to Tysons or Montgomery Mall. Thank god the standard is so low around here. I live in a MILF-free zone.

I'm with you. I'd love for someone to try and guess where I live... DH and I went to big in-state and "public Ivy" in-state school. Definitely not a big rock as DH scrimped and saved and bought it for me with cash while we were still in college. BMW for the husband and Honda SUV for myself. Loves Target. Kids are outfitted in babyGap - not Hanna Andersson or Janie and Jack. Condo - no McMansion here. No debt, no nanny and also no inheritance. Both work FT. I think we're really normal and I don't think we'd fit in with most of these posters at all... oh well.

I'll guess. Definitely Va. not Md -- b/c of the condo thing (not that there aren't any in MoCo) and the "public Ivy" comment. There are no public Ivies in Md and people tend (for the most part) to stay Md if they are Md people, Va types stay Va. So he must've gone to UVa (or maybe Michigan) and you to W&M, unless you both went to UVA, not clear from your post. I'm thinking Arlington or NW DC? If you lived in a PGCo condo, your BMW would have cardboard in the windows. (I'm the PG poster)

Not Arlington or NW DC... if that were the case, I think I would fit in better on these boards! Not Reston either, but getting warmer. I was actually surprised to see another poster mention my county on this thread!

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Anonymous wrote:Crunchy N Arlington mom here, and by all means, call me ugly. Even sticks and stones can't hurt me through my quilted jacket.

Besides, bickering about personal aesthetics is not the Arlington Way.

Ha! This is why I love N.Arlington. The superficial is unimportant..the inside is what matters.

[Anonymous]

Ok, jumping into this thread because it doesn't seem to be going anywhere...

If you want to get all semi-scientific about neighborhood types, see if you recognize yourself by zip code:

http://www.claritas.com/MyBestSegments/Default.jsp?ID=20&id1=1027&id3=20009

[Anonymous]

>> sorry, more. Mom is somewhat older, definitely have kids at 30. She is typically white but not WASP. There is a good chance she is Jewish, higher than the metro population at large. She is not fashionable, but also not dowdy. Just ... Banana or Ann Taylor and Macy's. Does not wear big rock, would not fly with uber-serious downtown

job.

Oh no, that almost describes me to a tee. Eeek. I'm going to guess Chevy Chase DC b/c that's where I live

Yes, I wrote this and mentioned upthread that is indeed Chevy Chase DC and much of AU Park. I am writing about myself here, too , and every one of my female neighbors whether I know them well or not. We're a lot of Old Mamas in MiniBoden (weekends), Merrells, Danskos, plus Macy's for impressive, probably underpaid work.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok, jumping into this thread because it doesn't seem to be going anywhere...

If you want to get all semi-scientific about neighborhood types, see if you recognize yourself by zip code:

http://www.claritas.com/MyBestSegments/Default.jsp?ID=20&id1=1027&id3=20009

Good lord! That is like a magic ball...

'Money&Brains' and 'Young Digerati' so aptly describe my hood within 22201 :

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, jumping into this thread because it doesn't seem to be going anywhere...

If you want to get all semi-scientific about neighborhood types, see if you recognize yourself by zip code:

http://www.claritas.com/MyBestSegments/Default.jsp?ID=20&id1=1027&id3=20009

Love it. I did my zip code and it is [embarassingly] spot-on.