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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is so weird to me and not how SP seems at all. Anywhere in upper NW in DC WOTP or Chevy Chase has far more wealthy/elite people than SP. The typical house here is a split level or raised ranch. Most of the houses look a lot like Wheaton or Silver Spring outside the beltway - 1960s and 1970s houses. We live in a new house in an older neighborhood. Yeah the diversity of all kinds is low but classist and snobs? I just don’t see it. What I see is close knit neighborhood groups where like orients around your kid’s swim team. [/quote]

You are either oblivious, didn’t live in Severna Park in 2015 or 2019 when proposals for affordable housing came to the county council, or maybe you weren’t paying attention to the numerous classist and racist comments made by a plethora of SP residents in public testimony and in local FB groups. Lots of families I knew with kids who played sports wouldn’t let their kids befriend or date student athletes attending Pasadena and Glen Burnie schools. It wasn’t uncommon for kids in SP who misbehaved to be told they were acting “like Glen Burnie trash.”  Some years ago, Severna Park HS parents wanted a magnet program at SPHS, but they wanted the magnet program to be open to ONLY kids zoned for SPHS because they didn’t want to create an opportunity for kids from poorer parts of the county to have an opportunity to attend SPHS. Go ask Shipley’s Choice families what they think of their kids going to Old Mill HS and then tell me SP doesn’t have snobs and classist people.

Seriously, anyone native to Anne Arundel County about Severna Park will almost always tell you that SP is full of snobby rich people. It may not be as affluent as Bethesda/CC/Potomac, but it’s a huge stretch to say it’s like Wheaton or even Silver Spring. Those places have multi family housing and apartments, Severna Park literally has none except for two senior citizens restricted apartments. SP is almost all SFHs that start at $600k and often go as high as the $1M+ range. Home prices and income levels in SP are very comparable to those in the River Hill school district area in Howard County, which is also notorious for being competitive, affluent, and snobby.

Severna Park is literally the DMV’s poster child of upper-middle-class affluence and NIMBYism. It’s all SFHs, and they’re so NIMBY that they even NIMBY’d away their potential to have good restaurants and infrastructure that isn’t shit so that they can avoid any chance of the poors and non-parkies having a reason to go to SP. [/quote]

Our neighbors down the street moved to SP and they fit the snob description to a t.  And all that is near sp is strip malls.  You have to drive to Annapolis to get a downtown type area.   But it is near the water!   Though you better hope you only commute 1x a week.  It is a 90 min drive on the commuter bus to downtown DC.  [/quote]

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