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Glen Burnie/Pasadena/etc. down Route 2? Former (or current) blue collar type are anything but preppy. Even further down to Severna Park etc. it's not preppy at all, just "regular" middle class.
Towson? There's a university there but it's just your more "normal" university. Further up in Lutherville/Timonium/Cockeysville is a mix of upper middle class and regular middle class suburbia anyway.
Owings Mills etc.? That area is ehh...not even that great.
Dundalk/Essex or even further up to Rosedale/Middle River/White Marsh? That area makes even Glen Burnie looks preppy.
That leaves what? Columbia which is regular 1970s master-planned burb with a mix of middle class areas and some low income apartments throw in a suburbia mall? Ellicott City or Clarksville? Just b/c there are lots of East Asian there that will eventually go to really good universities doesn't make them that preppy.
Even Annapolis is not preppy...sure it's "sailing capital" (at least it call itself), but that doesn't automatically mean they're preppy. Then there's Naval Academy, which while extremely to get into isn't really a school "preppy type" goes to - it's a different kind of prestige.
tl;dr: Where in Baltimore burbs is preppy? Even many DC burbs aren't all THAT preppy but is rather just filled up with people that makes good money (but by all means, not super wealthy) working for govt/govt contractor/consultant. And no...why in the world people think NoVA is preppy? If anything it's more snobby than preppy.
Glen Burnie/Pasadena/etc. down Route 2? Former (or current) blue collar type are anything but preppy. Even further down to Severna Park etc. it's not preppy at all, just "regular" middle class.
Towson? There's a university there but it's just your more "normal" university. Further up in Lutherville/Timonium/Cockeysville is a mix of upper middle class and regular middle class suburbia anyway.
Owings Mills etc.? That area is ehh...not even that great.
Dundalk/Essex or even further up to Rosedale/Middle River/White Marsh? That area makes even Glen Burnie looks preppy.
That leaves what? Columbia which is regular 1970s master-planned burb with a mix of middle class areas and some low income apartments throw in a suburbia mall? Ellicott City or Clarksville? Just b/c there are lots of East Asian there that will eventually go to really good universities doesn't make them that preppy.
Even Annapolis is not preppy...sure it's "sailing capital" (at least it call itself), but that doesn't automatically mean they're preppy. Then there's Naval Academy, which while extremely to get into isn't really a school "preppy type" goes to - it's a different kind of prestige.
tl;dr: Where in Baltimore burbs is preppy? Even many DC burbs aren't all THAT preppy but is rather just filled up with people that makes good money (but by all means, not super wealthy) working for govt/govt contractor/consultant. And no...why in the world people think NoVA is preppy? If anything it's more snobby than preppy.
I thought Severna Park would qualify ( I'm from there).
This has got to be the least consensus I've seen on a subject here. The south? Preppy? Do you think the people fishing, mudding, and drinking around a fire pit in the middle of the woods are preppy but the Hollywood and Beverly Hills crowd somehow isn't?
I was there a few weeks ago. When I got back to St. Louis it felt very different. St. Louis has no sense of style at all.
Parts of it are. It has world class universities and upscale neighborhoods. You’ll see some preppy there. You get bigger concentrations where affluent people do leisure activities. The Marblehead Yacht Club, for example.
Boston MA
Nantucket-Martha’s Vineyard MA
Coastal Connecticut
Newport RI
Manhattan NY
The Hamptons-North Shore, Long Island NY
Parts of Bergen, Morris, Somerset and Monmouth Counties NJ
Charleston SC
West Palm Beach-Jupiter FL
Coastal California
Just add Westchester County NY and this list is perfect
Boulder strikes me more of flannel or earthy colors.
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