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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like you people complaining of the hyper competitiveness just need to move a little further out/into less affluent areas right here in the DC metro. What do you expect if you live in Arlington, McLean, Bethesda, Falls Church, even Vienna? There's a lot of money in those places. If you go just a little further out/less affluent you will still get some competitiveness but it will be mixed with more middle class and down to earth people. You don't have to move out of the area entirely. And also did you not know what you were signing up for when you decided you wanted the nice house very close to a major city? Of course it's a bunch of rich people who value superficial things and look down on others. [/quote]

+1.

Competition based on cars, clothes and Starbucks (WTF!) does not happen in Rockville, MD. [/quote]

But things like this did happen in Gaithersburg/Rockville/Potomac at Wooton's feeder middle school in the 1980s .  I doubt it has gotten better over time as the neighborhood has gone upmarket since my day.

I learned about the importance of living in (the almost so far North you can't call it) Potomac vs. Gaithersburg and Jordache and Calvin Klein jeans within weeks of starting school.   Also got picked on and punched in the face during gym class at this "great school".  There were cows in the pasture across from my subdivision then.  House now worth $860k.  I see that my old house has now been absorbed into the fantasy concept of North Potomac.  Maybe it got promoted when the cows moved away.

Also learned in 7th grade in MD way too much about the importance of going to Duke.  A school I had never heard of (West Coast transplant) and would not hear of again until MBA application time.  In 7th grade, I would probably have known of most of the Ivies and some of the 7 Sisters but nobody I knew my age had any specific college plans. Stanford was kind of a regional good school back then.  Duke stuck in my head because it was so odd to keep hearing about it.  I gather it must have intense brand loyalty similar to the "Roll Tide" crew.  Did I mention the cruelty of peer grading?  I'll never forget the D+ some classmates gave me in Honors English for a project representing my own life.  I laughed it off but I knew that was a pretty shitty thing for one middleschooler to do to another.  There were sharper elbows there than any other school I've been to, including college and grad.  Maybe middle school is more awkward for baby strivers....

School was way harder coming from a "good" public school in California and the "good" school I moved to in Pennsylvania.  Maybe a year ahead.

My guy friends who graduated from BCC and Whitman had similar feedback on their neighborhoods after completing the entire K-12 session.  We met at college outside the DMV.
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