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[quote=Anonymous]Chevy Chase MD isn't an old money community (former resident for 20 years).   It's an old streetcar suburb, so it has older prewar architecture than most high-end DC suburbs, but old architecture doesn't make it old money (DC doesn't really have much old money, but if it's anywhere it's mostly in pockets of upper NW DC).   If you look at Zillow or other sites, you'll see most of the houses in Chevy Chase (even Chevy Chase Village, the toniest part) have flipped since the turn of the century.   It's not like Grosse Pointe or Shaker Heights or the Main Line.  Actually, nowhere in the DMV is -- there's too constant an inflow of new residents.

Chevy Chase is a high-income, high-education suburb, with among the highest median housing price and HHI in the DC area.   There are parts of CC MD that have expensive starter homes, and there are parts that have very expensive forever homes.

DCUM has a lot of people who project interpretations onto things they don't understand.   Since Chevy Chase has a lot of old foursquares and tudors on modest lots rather than McMansions on multi-acre spreads, some DCUMers who gravitate toward McMansions like to project that life in Chevy Chase must be kind of like the Gilded Age.  It's not. [/quote]

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