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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re conflating the value of homes in a neighborhood with the value of the neighbors.  Teachers, nurses, firefighters, etc., may not live in the most expensive neighborhoods, but I’d be thrilled to have them as neighbors.  Moreover, even the most expensive neighborhoods aren’t immune from crime.  [/quote]

I am a middle-aged nurse living in a DMV zip code with even higher price-per-sq-ft homes than Bethesda or McLean.

It’s actually not great living among the newer arrival millennials who get to buy a $2.8M colonial because Dad set up a trust fund. [b]They tend to be Zach/Emilys with vocal fry[/b] (both sexes, yuck) and a poor grasp of community.  They outsource absolutely everything and their kids are socially awkward due to being raised by cheap help. [/quote]

On this totally unrelated topic, Thank you for naming this! I live in one of these neighborhoods and kept asking my husband why so many women talk like this. I have a friend who caught it after hanging out with them for too long. I thought I was nuts— had no idea this was a thing. It’s painful listening to them speak. [/quote]

The vocal fry thing has been superseded by young women who talk with a low almost drag queen insouciance. I kid you not. I also tend to hear it among minority female college grads. I dont know it is some effort to compensate for not being white so affect a tone of low voiced blitheness.[/quote]

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