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Anonymous wrote:It's a dated term for sure.

Wouldn't call WF preppy. If you know Baltimore, Eddie's and Grauls are preppy. Grauls Ruxton especially, it's stepping back to 1985 in there. DC doesn't have an equivalent.

No one in Baltimore is preppy. People in New England and sometimes NYC can be preppy. No one in Baltimore ... lol.

You clearly are uncivilized. My Washington tavern was in the original preppy handbook ffs.

Stop trying to make Baltimore preppy happen. It isn’t going to happen. Preppy people are WASPs. WASPs don’t live in Baltimore.

Some of the preppiest people I know are Black. I think your definition doesn’t reflect modern reality.

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Anonymous wrote:I can admit we’re yuppies:

- Starbucks latte every morning

- Shop at WF, especially for fish and cheese

- Spent $100K on renovations to our house

- Completely networked Apple devices, including two Home Pods, three iPads, and WiFi-enabled lights and fans that we can control from our phones

- Bar cart on our main level that DH uses to make old fashions

- Nespresso machine

That pretty much nails it. More twee habits would peg them as pampered millennials, like bouqs delivery service. The th8ng they could add is peloton.
- Subscriptions to the NYTimes and The Economist

you guys sounds pretty basic

You’re adding random numbers into your words and you’re making fun of me? What the hell is “bouqs”?

Are you in DC? Bouqs is a flower delivery company.

I live in MoCo, but clearly PP is wrong about me being such a yuppie, since I’ve never heard of it. I used to live in the District and have been in the area for 15 years.

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore - where when someone asks where you went to school, they aren't asking about university

I'm not from there (DC native) but OMG, this. The person talking trash about Baltimore clearly has no clue.

Yeah, and it’s almost certainly nothing compared to wealthy parts of New England, NYC, and CT. When people ask where you went to high school in Manhattan, they want to know what prep school you went to. Then they want to know where your family summered and wintered — was it Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, or Southampton for the summers? Was it Tahoe or Vail for the winters?

Sorry, but Baltimore just has a fraction of the historic wealth that the Northeast has. I’m sure there are rich areas, but it’s nothing compared to the circles of people whose kids went to Horace Mann, Brearley, Chapin, or Dalton, and or maybe the New England boarding schools (Andover/Exeter/Deerfield, etc.) for high school. I was on the very edges of that world, as my parents own in Manhattan and I went to Andover, while my sister went to Horace Mann. I saw that wealth directly, even though my family—though rich—does not have that historic affluence.

I went to a party at a school friend’s family’s apartment on Central Park West. They own 3 entire floors of their building and have a private elevator. She’s never been on the subway because her driver takes her everywhere. Another one of my friends from Andover has a building at Harvard with his family’s name on it. Another one is 3rd generation Princeton and Yale legacy. These are kids who grow up and do not have to work. Instead, they use their family’s wealth to establish VC funds and philanthropic foundations.

That’s preppy. It’s old money. I have an extremely hard time believing that anything in Baltimore compares, despite the existence of perhaps some small pockets of rich families.

To the person who asked above: Yes, yuppie is different from preppy. Ultimately, preppy refers to people who are WASPs, went to prep school, have country club memberships, and are comfortable in places like the very wealthy areas of Long Island, Connecticut, Martha’s Vineyard, and Manhattan. Yes, there are people who dress in sort of a preppy way, but they’re really just pretending, unless they have the lifestyle to go along with it.

Anonymous wrote:Baltimore - where when someone asks where you went to school, they aren't asking about university

I'm not from there (DC native) but OMG, this. The person talking trash about Baltimore clearly has no clue.

Anonymous wrote:Preppy and yuppy are two different things, right?

Yes. Very.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can admit we’re yuppies:

- Starbucks latte every morning

- Shop at WF, especially for fish and cheese

- Spent $100K on renovations to our house

- Completely networked Apple devices, including two Home Pods, three iPads, and WiFi-enabled lights and fans that we can control from our phones

- Bar cart on our main level that DH uses to make old fashions

- Nespresso machine

That pretty much nails it. More twee habits would peg them as pampered millennials, like bouqs delivery service. The th8ng they could add is peloton.
- Subscriptions to the NYTimes and The Economist

you guys sounds pretty basic

You’re adding random numbers into your words and you’re making fun of me? What the hell is “bouqs”?

Are you in DC? Bouqs is a flower delivery company.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a dated term for sure.

Wouldn't call WF preppy. If you know Baltimore, Eddie's and Grauls are preppy. Grauls Ruxton especially, it's stepping back to 1985 in there. DC doesn't have an equivalent.

No one in Baltimore is preppy. People in New England and sometimes NYC can be preppy. No one in Baltimore ... lol.

OMG. This is DEFINITELY not true. Especially back in the day. Baltimore was more preppy than DC.

Preppy and yuppy are two different things, right?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a dated term for sure.

Wouldn't call WF preppy. If you know Baltimore, Eddie's and Grauls are preppy. Grauls Ruxton especially, it's stepping back to 1985 in there. DC doesn't have an equivalent.

No one in Baltimore is preppy. People in New England and sometimes NYC can be preppy. No one in Baltimore ... lol.

You clearly are uncivilized. My Washington tavern was in the original preppy handbook ffs.

Stop trying to make Baltimore preppy happen. It isn’t going to happen. Preppy people are WASPs. WASPs don’t live in Baltimore.

Hmm.

You've never been to Baltimore. And you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

The Baltimore prep world is possibly one of the most old school prep world left these days.

+1. DH’s family is from northwest Baltimore and I have never meet people from there that more encapsulate the word “preppy”. Loooots of old money and very old school ways of doing things, that’s for sure.

Hahahahaha ok.

Keep telling yourself that.

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Anonymous wrote:Why yeti coolers?

Exactly, we have a Yeti cooler and that’s not a Yuppie thing, good lord


- high end luxury vehicle that is not a family wagon
- tailored clothing whether it’s day to day clothes or evening wear
- particular shoes and bags (men and women)
- High end trench coaches/scarves/gloves
- luxury weekend travel

Read American Psycho, that’s a Yuppie

What clothing brand and shoes?

God people on DCUM are the worst.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a dated term for sure.

Wouldn't call WF preppy. If you know Baltimore, Eddie's and Grauls are preppy. Grauls Ruxton especially, it's stepping back to 1985 in there. DC doesn't have an equivalent.

No one in Baltimore is preppy. People in New England and sometimes NYC can be preppy. No one in Baltimore ... lol.

You clearly are uncivilized. My Washington tavern was in the original preppy handbook ffs.

Stop trying to make Baltimore preppy happen. It isn’t going to happen. Preppy people are WASPs. WASPs don’t live in Baltimore.

Hmm.

You've never been to Baltimore. And you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

The Baltimore prep world is possibly one of the most old school prep world left these days.

+1. DH’s family is from northwest Baltimore and I have never meet people from there that more encapsulate the word “preppy”. Loooots of old money and very old school ways of doing things, that’s for sure.

Yup.

Baltimore - where when someone asks where you went to school, they aren't asking about university

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a dated term for sure.

Wouldn't call WF preppy. If you know Baltimore, Eddie's and Grauls are preppy. Grauls Ruxton especially, it's stepping back to 1985 in there. DC doesn't have an equivalent.

No one in Baltimore is preppy. People in New England and sometimes NYC can be preppy. No one in Baltimore ... lol.

You clearly are uncivilized. My Washington tavern was in the original preppy handbook ffs.

Stop trying to make Baltimore preppy happen. It isn’t going to happen. Preppy people are WASPs. WASPs don’t live in Baltimore.

Hmm.

You've never been to Baltimore. And you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

The Baltimore prep world is possibly one of the most old school prep world left these days.

+1. DH’s family is from northwest Baltimore and I have never meet people from there that more encapsulate the word “preppy”. Loooots of old money and very old school ways of doing things, that’s for sure.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a dated term for sure.

Wouldn't call WF preppy. If you know Baltimore, Eddie's and Grauls are preppy. Grauls Ruxton especially, it's stepping back to 1985 in there. DC doesn't have an equivalent.

No one in Baltimore is preppy. People in New England and sometimes NYC can be preppy. No one in Baltimore ... lol.

You clearly are uncivilized. My Washington tavern was in the original preppy handbook ffs.

Stop trying to make Baltimore preppy happen. It isn’t going to happen. Preppy people are WASPs. WASPs don’t live in Baltimore.

Hmm.

You've never been to Baltimore. And you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

The Baltimore prep world is possibly one of the most old school prep world left these days.