Snob Factor?? (Houston, Dallas, Arlington: apartments, home, neighborhood)

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by DFWDove

Snobs don't necessarily go after new, they go after prestigious zip codes and neighborhoods that are synonymous with wealth and class. New homes are usually bought by new money and Jonses wanna be sort. No grade A snob would be caught dead with a address that says Richwoods.

Not all snobs are rich enough to buy in the Park Cities.

[synchronicity]

Originally Posted by DFWDove

Snobs don't necessarily go after new, they go after prestigious zip codes and neighborhoods that are synonymous with wealth and class. New homes are usually bought by new money and Jonses wanna be sort. No grade A snob would be caught dead with a address that says Richwoods.

I guess it depends on the type of snob. I'm imagining a "Jones-wannabe-sort" type of snob.

Speaking of such things, I do chuckle when gassing up my aforementioned cheap old car and I need to punch my "prestigious" zip code into the pump before it'll approve my card. "Yeah, cause that's how I roll!"

[DFWDove]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

Not all snobs are rich enough to buy in the Park Cities.

Snobbery is a multi tier culture.

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by DFWDove

Snobbery is a multi tier culture.

Yup, and it doesn't discriminate on the basis of gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, etc.

[Made_it_To_the_Metroplex]

....and it exists EVERYWHERE. Next subject, PLEASE!

[Rakin]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

Not all snobs are rich enough to buy in the Park Cities.

The worst Snobs are the wanna be rich snobs. The wanna be's are fake arrogant also.

[aggie972]

I respect the Park Cities people who like living in older, architecturally beautiful houses and like being in the city with better access to culture and better schools, but I'm wary of the Gatsby like "old money" snobbery where you aren't taken seriously if you're new money and your father didn't also live in the Park Cities and pledge the right fraternity.

[bencronin04]

Originally Posted by aggie972

I respect the Park Cities people who like living in older, architecturally beautiful houses and like being in the city with better access to culture and better schools, but I'm wary of the Gatsby like "old money" snobbery where you aren't taken seriously if you're new money and your father didn't also live in the Park Cities and pledge the right fraternity.

I didn't see any of this growing up there, nor have I experienced it while my son has been in tball there the past few months. Actually some of the oldest (money) and most wealthy people I've known in the area are some of the nicest people I've ever been involved with. I find most of the snobbery in the area comes from recent transplants.

One of the most popular kids in school was a 1st generation immigrant that lived in a 2 bedroom apartment by SMU (it was torn down to make room for the Bush library).

[Rakin]

It really is nice to live in a very mixed race, mixed ethnic Texas. Rich or poor, straight or gay Texas people really are some of the most accepting people in the US.

We get a bad stereo type at times. Most Texans are really good people.

[radiolibre99]

Is the snob/keeping up with the joneses a recent thing in Texas since the economic boom? I've been absent from actually living in Texas for at least five years on and off but from what I've gathered that's happened to my once small town of Katy Texas, it's unbearably keeping up with the joneses now. The new development, the new monied professional class is all but eager to show off their new toys, new homes, new digs! It's all about where you live and where you dine or travel, but especially where you work! You gotta be connected to oil/gas/energy, or at least doing accounting/finance for them.

I mentioned this to my co workers here in LA and they tell me that's how Southern California used to be before the crash. Now it's a pretty humbled city. Keeping up with the joneses feels like a fruitless effort when your competition are millionaires and billionaires. No 100k millionaires over here.

OP, I doubt it's all Dallasites, it's mostly the new monied younger family professionals in the local economy who think they've stuck oil being middle management.