[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=flu]As snobby as people from hillsborough or atherton or los altos hills.
Your description between RSF and CV is probably more due to age and wealth. RSF folks have made it, probably are older, and less to prove. CV folks are younger, up and coming (as you describe), and probably have more to prove. The worst are the soccer moms in those Land Rovers that don’t work. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah…(We avoid them like the plague, so most of our families are double income folks that are pretty normal.)
However, you’re going to find the “rich kid” issue in RSF and CV probably equally, it will just come in different flavors.
I think the first thing to note is in general, SoCal tends to be more shallow than NorCal…Just look at how many cosmetic surgery places there are here and plenty of big boob people as far as Temecula (so I’ve been told). It’s just different down here.
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FLU: Dude, I grew up in Los Altos Hills (Altamont Circle, off Page Mill Road) and I remember when it was also down to earth folks with no snoot factor (unlike Atherton or Hillsborough). Same with Palo Alto and Menlo.
The Asshole Factor up there was indeed what my mom called the “arrivistes” or “new money”, the people that came in with the rise of the Silicon Valley. I’m pretty sure Atherton and Hillsborough always had that snoot factor and going back to the turn of the 20th century (railroad money).[/quote]
Sorry, I grew up a bumpkin in Santa Clara picking cherries while some of the more lofty cherry orchard owners were perched up in Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills after making a killing on Apple stock. Just kidding. My dad worked at Kennedy Center after relocating from Johnson in Houston, so we weren’t exactly cherry pickers. It was much worse though during the dot com days 🙂
New money does interesting things to people. Post-IPO but Pre-BubbleBurst NorCal people can get pretty bad
