I summer on Corcoran Street

My rich neighbor summers in Atlantic Beach NY

To "summer" is straight out of the original early 80s Preppy Handbook. Personally, I think it is used mostly in NYC and Boston, among families that are close enough to beach resorts that "mom and the kids" go there for the summer and dad goes out on the weekends. Or both parents go if there's a family business that can be operated from the summer cottage. Some DC families do that on the Eastern Shore or Annapolis. But, it only works if one or both parents can leave DC and go live in their summer house for a big chunk of the summer. Pretty rare.

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Anonymous wrote:We knew we had crossed over into a new Class bracket when everyone around us used "summer" as a verb.

Honestly when i hear someone do that it makes me literally cringe. I grew up in a wealthy family who owned 3 homes and never ever would anyone in my family ever have used the word "summer" as a verb. That is as nouveau riche as one can get. If someone says that I lose all interest.

Well, it's not exclusively a nouveau riche term. That's simply not accurate. Anyway, this thread is kind of dumb -- there are lots of wealthy folks; they go different places. You'll find bunches of them here and there.

Anonymous wrote:We knew we had crossed over into a new Class bracket when everyone around us used "summer" as a verb.

Honestly when i hear someone do that it makes me literally cringe. I grew up in a wealthy family who owned 3 homes and never ever would anyone in my family ever have used the word "summer" as a verb. That is as nouveau riche as one can get. If someone says that I lose all interest.

Our neighbor who is worth hundreds of millions has a home in the outer banks, and on Martha Vineyard.

I think a lot are starting to go to the Carolinas as well there are many super exclusive very expensive and beautiful neighborhoods.

We knew we had crossed over into a new Class bracket when everyone around us used "summer" as a verb.

They "summer". They don't do "weekend" homes.

When we bought our home in Georgetown in our early 30s, all of the neighbors were asking where we "summer" . It was a ghost town from Memorial Day until after Labor Day. The answer for all of them was New England/Cape/Nantucket/Maine.

People didn't do 'weekend' trips frequently during the year. The retired ones also had homes in warm climates for winter.

My husband and I only vacation to cooler/no humidity places in the summer. I could not do Rehoboth or Eastern shore or anywhere south---way too damn hot, humid and buggy in the summer. Far north is where we are going to buy.