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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A beach house. I really want one in theory, but I know that we'd never actually be able to go to it.

Private school. My kids prefer to stay with neighborhood kids.

Country Club. I cannot stand the pretentiousness out them. [/quote]

In defense of country clubs, if you like to play a lot of golf, it's not a bad investment.  One of the clubs in close-in DC is like $75k up-front and like $1,000/month but includes unlimited golf for husband, spouse, kids under 26, has a gym, pool, etc.  You can easily pay $150+/round for golf on a nice course, plus you may pay say another $500/month for family gym/pool membership.

If the whole family is playing golf, that's $600 a pop.  So, based on how many times you play and who plays, you are saving possibly $1000+ per week, not to mention the course is far less crowded than courses open to the public and it's a 10 minute drive from Upper NW DC/Bethesda, so you can decide to just go play 9 holes in the evening if you want.

A friend who is really not a country club type laid it all out, and I had to admit the numbers were actually compelling...again, if you like to play a lot of golf.  This guy plays at least 2x a week in the dead of winter.[/quote]

Most people don’t have that kind of free time. Golf isn’t a good hobby for parents of young kids - it’s too time consuming and not fair to the other parent.

Also, I’ve yet to meet a country club member who isn’t snobby and doesn’t think they are too good to hang around regular people. It’s just not our style. [/quote]

The more exclusive, the more nasty attitudes.  My father-in-law loves his golf and has been at the same country club since the 1970s. He retired early and it’s been worth it for him  My husband did the swim team and Jr. golf team as a kid but stopped going as a teen.  It’s expensive with an initiation fee of $150k and yearly dues are high.  They have a years long waiting list and you need to be “invited”.  My father-in-law has a five year old Honda.   He’s not one of the snobby ones.  [/quote]

I love how you anti country club people act like low cost pool memberships and municipal public golf courses are full of fun, salt of the Earth polite people, when they are frequently full of anti-social obnoxious, loud, drunken and uncouth trash. Public golf courses, especially since Covid, have become full of drunk dirtbags who blast music off Bluetooth speakers. There's a reason for the waiting lists at the snobby clubs: People eagerly pay a fortune to avoid low class trash on public courses.[/quote]

So you don’t like people to stereotype about country clubs but your very next paragraph goes into the most ridiculous nasty stereotypes that aren’t even accurate.

I have a feeling you’ve never been a member of a country club.  You know an awfully lot about public courses.  Golfers blast music?  Bringing your children to a local town pool makes a person drunk and uncouth trash?  I guess the old saying “it takes one to know one” applies here.  [/quote]

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