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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am guessing a certain demographics based on similar experience in these postingsI live in CA in a relatively affluent area with relatively younger population. Mostly newly rich. They tend to be more status conscious. Now I go to even more affluent area, people there are older and are generally very gracious. But even in this group, when in the less affluent crowd, condo owners as opposed to single detached homeowners, they are younger and must feel the pressure of not having arrived yet. They can be nasty. I am guessing the nasty DCUM crowd might be relatively young, newly rich, and probably very  status conscious. [/quote

+1. Noticed this also. There appears to be a lot of posters on some of the threads who are hell-bent on justifying their money choices for private schools based on where their kids get into college. There are groups of them that are extremely obnoxious. A few have even tried to get the rest of the thread to take me down a notch or two because my DC did not attend a big 3. They never want to believe that they have spent ungodly money (which many of them could have used for the household) and their kids did not come out ahead in the system. This is new money talking because anyone that's been around for a while, or who has made it through the system, know the scenery and outcomes a bit better.

I have a few friends who sent their kids to more expensive schools than our DC, and our DC seems to be standing out more. It's hard for some of them to accept. Also, DH and I have a few good colleges under our belt. These friends do not. I am betting that it's going to get downright ugly come college admissions time, especially if my DC gets into a higher ranked college.

And don't even go to the Harvard threads. All touches with reality have been lost on some of those threads. But it all boils down to better bragging rights for the new money crowd.[/quote]

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