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[quote=Anonymous]UMC, I guess?  Maybe UC, depending on how one counts such things, but certainly not rich for the DMV.  I have a JD and DH has a JD and Ph.D.   I'm a fed.  My parents were both professionals; his were more middle class.

While there are some tattoos I actively like and others I actively dislike, "trashy" is not a judgment I tend to make, at least not based on tattoos.  not that I don't judge the aesthetics of a thing - guy who used to live on my block with the teardrop tattoos is legitimately kinda scary (which I assume was the purpose), and the tiny unicorn on a girls ankle is kinda silly and not my style.  a friend has a really amazing full sleeve that I think is gorgeous but I wouldn't get myself (looks like leaves and thorns and birds or something).  other friends have tattoos of their kids initials, a tribute to their decease relative, a Sanskrit om, a favorite lyric.  Some I like; some seem a bit silly and/or not my style.    Another friend bought a tattoo gun and commenced giving himself terrible tattoos - a pirate flag, a girlfriends name, etc.  Did similar things for friends but it was definitely not my style.  And kinda unhygienic, frankly.  I have vague plans to get a tattoo for my 40th birthday - somewhere discrete.

Aside: I am the worlds most boring fed lawyer and most of my friends are similarly vanilla.  Tattoos are kind of normal.  there is a lawyer in my section and an IT supervisor in the building who both have full sleeves.  IT guy has some neck tattoos.  I know of at least 8 attorneys in the office with more discrete tattoos; I bet there are more. In other words, tattoos are totally normal in this setting. My kid's preschool teacher a couple of years ago had full sleeves on both arms.  That struck me as unusual, I guess.  I definitely noticed, anyway, but didn't think anything as a result.

Recently I moved away from the DMV and I see fewer tattoos on the professional set down here but it is possible they are just all more discrete.[/quote]

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