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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm the PP to whom you responded. While people will not ask you outright about your income, you will be asked often and immediately by total strangers what you do for a living. [b]DC is the only place I have ever lived in which this is not only socially acceptable, but expected.[/b] [/quote]

Really?  I have lived all over the country. People all over the place ask this question as a way to make polite conversation with someone they don't know very well.  I don't see why it's rude.[/quote]

Maybe it has to do with the SES of the people you meet? In DC, there are a lot of extremely well-educated people who do really interesting work. IMO, whenever you are in a city that people move to in order to pursue their careers, you will often talk about careers. I've found this true in DC, NYC, and SF. [/quote]

I have lived in the Bay Area, and there people would talk to you about politics, what they did for the weekend, your interests, your life and family, and what you worked on would eventually come up in the natural order of things.  DC is the only place where people will ask you, straight out of the box, where do you work or what do you do, and then look right past you and move on if it does not sound good enough.  I run in some very high SES circles.  My tech colleagues on the west coast despise this attribute in the DC locals.[/quote]

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