If you really wanted to place Snoburbia, though, Sullivan says you could do worse than the more affluent and advantaged parts of Montgomery: Chevy Chase, Garrett Park, Potomac, Kensington, Bethesda.
A blogger down the road from Garrett Park, in Kensington, chronicles the snobbery of Garrett Park residents like UD.
November 4th, 2010 at 2:00PM
Tell her to read Proust instead.
November 4th, 2010 at 2:39PM
Or Saint-Simon, who was the snob primordial. There’s a passage in the Mémoires where Louis XIV tells Saint-Simon he should be less sensitive about rank– hard to beat that, even in theory.
November 4th, 2010 at 5:42PM
A fine coupla yentas, to be sure.