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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Annapolis definitely feels blue collar and redneck, don’t know what you guys are taking about. About 50% of the people you’ll see there have tattoos, the food scene is 90% bar and pub food, there are no high end/sophistic restaurants, and it feels like a rustic town from the south. [/quote]

Huh???  Have we been to the same Annapolis?

Your description sounds more like Odenton and Glen Burnie.[/quote]

Yes, I’ve lived in Annapolis, and I’m born and raised in Bethesda. I’ve also lived around much of the US and even outside of it. Annapolis is not all multi-million dollar waterfront homes on the Severn River. Much of it is working-class and middle-class, and there’s a bunch of public housing within the city. Highland Beach and Parole have a lot of working-class rednecks. It’s not the rich la-la-la land you all wish it was, it’s like any other super segregated city from the south. Also, in my experience, the white people in Annapolis are way more racist and Trumpy than white people in Odenton, who are way more progressive. There is nothing high end about downtown Annapolis at all. It’s just a bunch of bars, pubs, grungy coffee shops like Rise Up. Anything fancy in Annapolis looks stuck in 2005, like Carpaccio.

[b]Odenton and Crofton are far more cosmopolitan[/b] than Annapolis ever will be. The only “diversity” in Annapolis is Black and Hispanic people living in public housing. Both Odenton and Crofton blow Annapolis out of the water when it comes to the percentage of college educated residents. Diversity in Crofton and Odenton includes Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Muslim, and Indian families. They have the highest percentage of foreign born families in all of AA County. The horrible/garbage public schools in Annapolis would never attract those families in a million years. Not even wealthy people in Annapolis want anything to do with those schools. [/quote]

Odenton, Crofton and cosmopolitan.  That’s the first time I’ve seen those words in a sentence together.[/quote]

Big night in Odenton is getting a chicken box at Royal Farms and finishing the night with some cold ones at Buck Murphy’s.  [/quote]

A “big night out” in Annapolis usually means dragging your husband who’s now shaped like a retired lacrosse ball into the same boat shoes, salmon shorts, and off-brand Vineyard Vines button-down you panic-bought at Marshalls during the Obama administration. You’ll make a reservation at Dock Street Bar & Grill, because apparently nothing says “coastal charm” like bland crab dip and a 50/50 chance of food poisoning, while a local rock band made up entirely of guys who peaked playing Battle of the Bands before dropping out of Broadneck butchers a Dave Matthews cover in the corner. Then comes the highlight: swaying in a sweaty crowd of sunburnt Edgewater rednecks and Calvert County day-drinkers, surrounded by Anne Arundel’s “elite”: people whose resumes peak with an associate’s degree from AACC or a marketing diploma from Salisbury and who now live in their parents’ basements, proudly insisting they “just love the Annapolis lifestyle.” Annapolis is a place where ambition goes to die quietly between $3 rail drinks, and the only thing more bloated than the crowd’s livers are their delusions that this is somehow “upscale living.” 
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[b]This thread (and this post in particular) is so good. An unexpected gem.[/b]
I've only been to the historic downtown part. Literally the "get ice cream and look at the water" part so loving all the descriptions. [/quote]
Totally! I love this thread and I want more from the ‘Annapolis hater’: s/he is great! [/quote]

They’ll be back.  Like most Odenton residents, they want you to think they’re at some fancy embassy event, or dinner at a Jose Andres restaurant.  Reality is they probably drove the leased Hellcat over to Arundel Mills.  While the little ones are running between the food court and Bass Pro Shops, they’re playing quarter slots at Maryland Live![/quote]

Oh wow, you’re so fancy because you live in “historic downtown” where you can walk to a Mission BBQ, Starbucks, and Chipotle. You know who else can walk to those places? People who live in Waugh Chapel Town Center — where every single one of those exact same chains is right there too. Your “iconic harbor” is just a puddle with overpriced crab dip, crawling with retirees in Sperrys pretending they’re in Nantucket while seagulls fight over discarded fries. One of the fanciest restaurants you can brag about is Ruth’s Chris, which, by the way, also exists in Odenton. And that “beloved” Annapolis Ice Cream Company you act like is some local treasure? Yeah, it’s scooping cones in Crofton now too under the name “Always Ice Cream Company,” because apparently even the ice cream wants to escape the fake charm.

The truth is, downtown Annapolis isn’t special. It’s Waugh Chapel Town Center with worse parking, higher prices, geriatric boutique stores no one has bought anything from since 1935, and a superiority complex so deep it could drown in its own harbor water.

At least people in Piney Orchard and Waugh Chapel can say they can walk to grocery stores. People in downtown Annapolis can’t even do that.
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This guy is comic gold. Best on dcum in years [/quote]
Absolutely! I want to keep this thread going - just to hear from him/her. And I for one agree with most of what they say but I can never match the writing style! [/quote]

Funny writing, but a little unhinged.  Annapolis, Odenton and Crofton are all fine and like most places, they each have pluses and minuses.  Writer jumped the shark when saying all Odenton and Piney Orchard residents are all ultra sophisticated and only eat at Michelin Star restaurants in DC.[/quote]

Odenton poster here. Obviously people in Odenton don’t exclusively eat at places that aren’t Michelin star restaurants. Odenton is a boring suburb, I never denied that. I’m out of here the second the kids graduate high school, and I’m going back to DC.

The point was that nobody here is jealous of the food and culture scene in Annapolis. 90% of it is unhealthy bar food and chains that exists in the strip malls that are 5 minutes away from our homes. If people want to experience something sophisticated or cultured, they go out to DC. Even people in Annapolis themselves go to DC or Baltimore for the night if they’re looking for something real extravagant.

The northern and older part Odenton such as Chapelgate has pockets of working-class people, but pretending that Piney Orchard, Two Rivers, Chapel Grove, The Preserve at Severn Run, Saddlebrooke, Stonegate Forest, and all the neighborhoods along Waugh Chapel Road are like Glen Burnie is ridiculous. These areas are full of middle-class and upper-middle-class professionals working in DC and Fort Meade. People know it’s a boring suburb, but that’s the point. People want boring suburbs when they’re raising kids because they usually come with good schools, safety, and family-friendly atmospheres. I could have saved $100k on a house by buying the same house in another “boring suburb” zoned to Annapolis High School, but I didn’t, because then there’s an added cost of sending kids to private school.

It doesn’t mean Odenton is where people want to stay forever. Nearly everyone I know plans to sell their house and move to “interesting” places once their youngest child graduates from high school. [/quote]

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