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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there is a huge difference between DC and these so called "close in suburbs". There is no comparison. Affording a house on Lowell lane or even somewhere like AU Park requires a much higher level of income than the burbs. And yes higher income generally means best and brightest. [/quote]

Long-time Kent resident here -- living just a block away from Lowell for years.  Please, folks, do not be fooled by the well-rehearsed facades so common to the neighborhood.  Plenty of people have trust-funds or other inherited family wealth and are definitely not the "best and the brightest."  The luckiest, maybe, but not the brightest.  Many of these people lay it all on so thick simply to make everyone else believe they really are the best, etc., but this facade is a mile wide and an inch deep.  It doesn't take long to figure out that these people are not smarter, more clever, more hard-working, etc. than the average person -- they just hit the lottery.

Truth is, that to afford the lifestyle (expensive house, private school, nanny, housekeeper, Chevy Chase Club, etc.), one truly needs a trust fund.  Likely, someone earning their own money would have the good sense to realize they are surrounded by some of the best public schools in the country -- and that they ought to take advantage of them!  Honestly, all of this keeping up with the Joneses must be exhausting -- especially when the Joneses so often have the invisible hand of family money keeping them afloat![/quote]

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