At DC privates - Why are VA parents considered "inferior"?

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Anonymous wrote:Op. why do you live in Virginia? And why do you send your kids to DC schools? Start there and you'll find your answers.

OP: To VA for lots of outdoor space and to DC for the schools like I had in Massachusetts. What answers are there that I will find?

But this is exactly the point. Why do you need "lots of space," outdoors or not? How many people live at your house... 20? Or is it that you need room for all of your "toys" -- your pool, your media room, your tacky furniture, your cars. THIS is what DC people turn up their noses at.

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If anyone cares (because the original post DID pose this question in the context of independent schools), as a teacher at a DC independent school (a) we don't know where the kids live; and (b) by high school the students appear to be friends with each other without regard to where each other lives -- it's much more about shared interests (teams, the arts) and personalities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op. why do you live in Virginia? And why do you send your kids to DC schools? Start there and you'll find your answers.

OP: To VA for lots of outdoor space and to DC for the schools like I had in Massachusetts. What answers are there that I will find?

But this is exactly the point. Why do you need "lots of space," outdoors or not? How many people live at your house... 20? Or is it that you need room for all of your "toys" -- your pool, your media room, your tacky furniture, your cars. THIS is what DC people turn up their noses at.

Because we think it is good for kids to have lots of space outdoors to run and play that is just outside our house And we don't like to be squashed like sardines in an old, tiny 3 bedroom colonial in which the third bedroom is really the size of a coat closet.

You don't care for these things? Great. Different strokes, and all that. But maligning all people who live in Va is a little weird.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op. why do you live in Virginia? And why do you send your kids to DC schools? Start there and you'll find your answers.

OP: To VA for lots of outdoor space and to DC for the schools like I had in Massachusetts. What answers are there that I will find?

But this is exactly the point. Why do you need "lots of space," outdoors or not? How many people live at your house... 20? Or is it that you need room for all of your "toys" -- your pool, your media room, your tacky furniture, your cars. THIS is what DC people turn up their noses at.

Because we think it is good for kids to have lots of space outdoors to run and play that is just outside our house And we don't like to be squashed like sardines in an old, tiny 3 bedroom colonial in which the third bedroom is really the size of a coat closet.

You don't care for these things? Great. Different strokes, and all that. But maligning all people who live in Va is a little weird.

There are tons of big houses with lots of space in DC. You probably can't afford it. That's why you have this inferiority complex. I mean after all you started this thread. Sorry but you and your kids will always be considered as va carpet baggers. Yes even parents act like we're in high school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op. why do you live in Virginia? And why do you send your kids to DC schools? Start there and you'll find your answers.

OP: To VA for lots of outdoor space and to DC for the schools like I had in Massachusetts. What answers are there that I will find?

But this is exactly the point. Why do you need "lots of space," outdoors or not? How many people live at your house... 20? Or is it that you need room for all of your "toys" -- your pool, your media room, your tacky furniture, your cars. THIS is what DC people turn up their noses at.

Because we think it is good for kids to have lots of space outdoors to run and play that is just outside our house And we don't like to be squashed like sardines in an old, tiny 3 bedroom colonial in which the third bedroom is really the size of a coat closet.

You don't care for these things? Great. Different strokes, and all that. But maligning all people who live in Va is a little weird.

This is why Virginians are considered materialistic. Just FYI.

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Live in VA and love the open space and nature. Not materialistic at all.

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Ummm I'm originally from manhattan (now live in nova and kids are at a big 3) and NO ONE in this DC/MD/VA are even close to being manhattanites! This area is soooooo not cool

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i hope most of the posts in this thread are from high school students, because these DC/MD posters sure sound like a bunch of jr high school mean girls. i live in dc but this thread makes me want to move to VA!!

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Anonymous wrote:i hope most of the posts in this thread are from high school students, because these DC/MD posters sure sound like a bunch of jr high school mean girls. i live in dc but this thread makes me want to move to VA!!

This thread makes me want to move to MA...

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Back after the server outage and guess what? I'm still the cool kid because I can afford to live in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Back after the server outage and guess what? I'm still the cool kid because I can afford to live in DC.

Oh brother

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Oy. I live in VA and my kids go to school in DC. I have yet to meet anyone worth meeting who gives a fuck about where i or my kids live. Sometimes people do think we live "far away," but generally once I give them directions they say, "Oh, I had no idea 'Virginia' was that close!" So perhaps they're a little bit geographically challenged, but ain't we all? I personally think of "Maryland" as somewhere very far away.

I live in Alexandria and consider many parts of NOVA yucky, because I hate McMansions and tree-less, cookie-cutter new developments. Most of Alexandria (city) still consists of charming, older, smaller houses on pleasant, green streets. But there's a lot of ugly housing stick in DC and MD too, sadly.

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There is a lesson in how and why Stanford University was founded.

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Anonymous wrote:Oy. I live in VA and my kids go to school in DC. I have yet to meet anyone worth meeting who gives a fuck about where i or my kids live. Sometimes people do think we live "far away," but generally once I give them directions they say, "Oh, I had no idea 'Virginia' was that close!" So perhaps they're a little bit geographically challenged, but ain't we all? I personally think of "Maryland" as somewhere very far away.

I live in Alexandria and consider many parts of NOVA yucky, because I hate McMansions and tree-less, cookie-cutter new developments. Most of Alexandria (city) still consists of charming, older, smaller houses on pleasant, green streets. But there's a lot of ugly housing stick in DC and MD too, sadly.

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:Ill bite. Even though I know I shouldn't buy I've had 3 glasses of wine. There is a gut reaction that I get when I meet the few parents from Virginia. I realize they live far away, may have different political views and I sure as hell don't want to drive out there for a play date. I also get the sense of social climbing and that stench is hard to ignore. So I say hi and then ignore them completely because if DD makes a friend who lives in McLean I sure as hell don't want to drive out there on a Saturday.

Social climbing? More Old Money and status in Virginia than in MD, darling. Probably DC, too.

Well I live in DC. And you know you're wrong. Nova is so new money it hurts. Everything is gaudy and flashy. People trying to live outside their means so they lease a new car yearly to try and create false status. Eh. Call me when your family has a crest and funded America's railroads.

The railroads failed you retard , you should refund us your money.

Because only someone from Virginia would use this word.