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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chevy Chase, DC[/quote]

fails the "not so wealthy that the kids are irretrievably warped? "[/quote]

I'm biased because I live there now, but most of CCDC is not the kind of wealth that results in totally out of touch kids - particularly if you send the kids to public school. The houses are expensive for what they are, but the housing stock is largely 3-4 bedroom, 2000ish sqft old builds. Some of the houses between Connecticut and Chevy Chase Blvd are bigger than that, but even still we're not talking about mansions. It largely is a UMC vibe. But schools are a huge driver of how your kids perceive wealth. Living in CCDC and sending your kids to, say, Sidwell will result in a very different outlook than a kid who goes to Lafayette/Deal/JR.[/quote]

I grew up here and I went on more than one date where someone odious mansplained to me how having gone to Wilson kept them “grounded” compared to private school peers and it was sort of awful every time tbh. [/quote]

Why awful?  Tends to be true.  [/quote]

I can’t believe I have to explain this but it’s because living in CCDC and going to Wilson and living in CCDC and going to Sidwell are both very privileged upbringings with far more similarities than differences? And so it’s really gross to sit there as a young, debt free lawyer or whatever pretending that because you went to Wilson, you had a really gritty childhood? But some kids really internalize that and sort of won’t shut up about it. It’s bad to grow up in a bubble but it might be worse to grow up in a bubble but believe you didn’t. [/quote]

Totally disagree. There is a very different value system in private schools versus public and school is much more influential than your neighborhood. I’m sure they weren’t all saying they had a gritty childhood, but no doubt Wilson helped keep them grounded. [/quote]

I went to MCPS and GDS and I totally disagree. The kids are mostly the same, especially the ones with comparable family wealth. It’s not a different world, at least not DC day schools. It’s pretty similar. [/quote]

This is fascinating to me. I went to MCPS schools but played on a soccer team with kids from GDS in middle school. I was shocked by the amount of wealth and privilege. To my middle school self, it very much was a different world! [/quote]

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