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Everyone in SF is not a tech worker. Everyone in DC is not in government. Snobs are notorious for being rich folk, SF is more expensive than DC. DC has WAY more black folk (many with Southern roots) and more down to earth in that regard. Your argument is baseless and 100% opinionated. Sorry.
Oh yes and we're only arrogant because, no one on the corner has swagger like us.
The DMV as a whole has the snobiest black people on earth.
I feel like DC gets a bad rep. Just because we are very career oriented and want to get to the top doesn't make someone "snobby".
There's a fine line between career-oriented and career-obsessed. Work-life balance lacks in DC compared to many other cities. I think "snobby" is actually the incorrect descriptor for DC -- it's really more of the underhanded, opportunistic and pompous attitudes that afflict Washingtonians more than anything else.
Snobbery does not reside in big cities. The biggest snobs I've ever met are those from small towns in the Midwest and South. (And seen some posting on various city or state C-D threads too.) But they are REVERSE snobs. They love talking about how wholesome, clean, low-cost their cities/states are. They couldn't POSSIBLY understand how families raise kids in apartments and pity those who do. They think life wtihout a car is uncivilized and un American. They resent the influence of places like NYC, DC, and SF, without any understanding of why those cities are influential in the first place. They think that their hometowns are the REAL America and us coastal big-city dwellers are out of touch and living in our own bubbles with no understanding of them or anyone outside tha few favored zip codes.
You want real, true, and vitriolic snobbery, go to the so-called heartland. You'll find a lot more of it there and find it a lot more often, than you will in NYC, LA, San Fran, DC, Boston, etc.
Don't pretend that doesn't cut both ways, though. I cannot count the number of times where I've heard people (living on the East Coast) disparage and demean people in "Middle America" and the "Middle States" for the "lack of culture," car-dominant cities and poor educational attainment as though they live in purgatory.
I think ALL Americans could do much better to live and let live and stop being so judgmental.
There's a fine line between career-oriented and career-obsessed. Work-life balance lacks in DC compared to many other cities. I think "snobby" is actually the incorrect descriptor for DC -- it's really more of the underhanded, opportunistic and pompous attitudes that afflict Washingtonians more than anything else.
We have jobs that offer work-life balance... granted, you kind of have to work probably harder here than other places to find them but there's lots of them out there.
Boston is snobbish about intellectual status and universities.
NYC is snobbish about being the center of the world in everything.
SF is snobbish about natural setting and being half way up to heaven.
So, you take your pick. ;-)
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