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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, my family was in a similar position growing up in that we lived in a Bethesda neighborhood that was relatively less well-off than many (now it's all McMansions, but whatever).  Yeah, I did notice when I got to high school that there were differences.  I didn't feel poor necessarily, but I knew we had less money.

I didn't realize that we still had way more money than most of the rest of the country, or that most people's parents were not MD/PhD/JD, or that most of the country was much more white.  I learned that by going to college and then staying in the Midwest for a while.  I do think it's incumbent upon privileged parents to minimize the bubble in which their kids are raised.  Many of my peers who grew up with more never learned that lesson, and I find them intolerable now (their disdain for people with less is palpable).  We live in a different MoCo suburb that is more diverse than the one in which I grew up, and I appreciate that diversity.  It's still not enough, but it's better than most of the other options.[/quote]

I agree.  I recently heard a friend's child refer to her Chevy Chase neighborhood as "middle class."  It's a stunning bubble they live in.  How can a kid with that perspective grow up to have any compassion for the real middle class?[/quote]

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