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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in an Upper Middle Class DC family, and it was definitely a thing when I was a kid in the 70's.

I think this is something closely associated with SES.  Families with resources have options, which leads them to obsess about those options.  Families with fewer resources don't obsess about options they don't have.

My impression is that many families in this area have families who grew up in true middle class, or even working class families.  The parents get rich (or at least UMC) and find that their new social circles do things differently.  They then attribute those differences to  the time period, whereas for me, the ways that UMC raise their kids in DC is very similar to the way I was raised.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

+2 Grew up here in the 70s/80s.  Same obsession with one cut around buying houses in particular school zones for the 'top' publics, and other cut focused on the privates.  With the same level of intensity.  Differences now is that there are a lot of schools that are considered 'higher' quality in the region -- and a lot more money (tech money totally swamps lobbyist money), so the privates have become much higher percentage filled with uber rich, vs. doctors, lawyers, etc families...  and the NIH and two-govt salary families that used to be Bethesda are now in Silver Spring/Tacoma Park often.  [/quote]

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