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[quote=Anonymous]Haven't read the other posts, but I grew up in what is considered a very wealthy part of N. Va now, back in 70s and 80s. It was not so wealthy. Yes, there were Kennedy's (and I knew one who was very down to earth and normal, but just looking at her you knew she one because she had the same face), but there were plenty of middle class people with normal middle class jobs.

It was more conservative, gay phobic and racially separate than it is now. Even teachers were gay phobic. I remember getting a black penpal at a school in another state and my teacher pulled me aside and said she matched me up since I was one of the more accepting kids. Like how sad is that! Our school was so white too. There wasn't much diversity.

Traffic was more manageable.

Parents were more laid back-even mine who were on the over-protective side. We wandered the neighborhood from toddler-hood on with our gang of neighbor friends. By age 7 we wandered to another neighborhood too and played by a dangerous creek.

Tysons was safer. I think my over-protective parents let me wander the mall with friends by age 9.Now you hear about guns and even a shooting or 2 there. I think by 8 they were dropping us off at the neighborhood pool on our own. Pretty sure you could get a job at the snackbar by age 11 or 12. People were hired to babysit by age 10.
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