it takes a village

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If you live in snoburbia, your neighborhood must have a quaint appendage like “village” or “town” –  the Village of Scarsdale, the Town of Darien, Chevy Chase Village . This is to distinguish your neighborhood from the nouveau one with a similar name a half-mile away.

For instance, outsiders generally consider all of Michigan’s Grosse Pointes to be beautiful, sought-after suburbs. But no. Grosse Pointers have their own rankings, depending on which suffix they use, as in:  “I live in The Farms [and wouldn’t be caught dead in those other Grosse Pointes.]”

And the entire state of Virginia doesn’t consider itself a state at all but the “Commonwealth of Virginia.”

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Urban Dictionary has some funny definitions of Grosse Pointe here.

Comments

[PotomacSecretAgent]

Great idea! Love the shirts and attitude. I have been looking for the snooty Potomac, Maryland sign for years. To this day they only have a very cheap wooden sign that is in disrepair.

What is worse? Snooty or ill maintained!