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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up UMC, and for me and my friends it was:
- Expensive sports (think horseback riding)
- Private school (K-12), followed by mostly private college with some top state schools thrown in
- Vacation houses
- Travel, lots of it, including internationally (no weeks in the Outer Banks every summer)
- Sleepaway camps all over the country and world
- Lots of parties, like pretty fabulous birthday parties and sleepovers with really cool activities
- Tons of toys (we didn't have gadgets like Apple watched back then but I'd think something like that is probably in now)
- Great clothes (I'm a girl so maybe I cared about this more than boys would)
- Cars at 16[/quote]

What’s wrong with the outer banks? You know how many rich people have 2nd or 3rd homes there? [/quote]

Sorry, I didn't grow up on the east coast, so I was comparing my husband's family spending one week at the Outer Banks in a rented beach house to international travel.  I didn't mean people who own beach houses - that was addressed above in the vacation houses.  Clearly you can understand that the people who own houses at the Outer Banks that they go to with their family and people who rent them for one week every summer as their only vacation are not the same people?  Didn't mean to insult you and your beach house.[/quote]

Doesn’t that logic hold for people who rent a house in Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard as their only vacation or maybe one of two?[/quote]

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