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The snobbiest cities in America: Dublin, CA #22 :)

mike23w said:
yep.

none of the metrics used captures a 'snobby' attitude.

in order to do that you'd have to interview people and ask them questions related to how much better they think they are compared to everyone else. for example if they think living in a more expensive house in a more expensive city or driving a more expensive car somehow makes them a better person. basically, finding people that tie their self worth to how much they spend/consume (which is immature imo but a surprisingly large number of people do this).
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Questions of a material nature will rarely identify a snob, particularly because they will not equate having nice things making them "better" or even better off... In a snobs eyes, they ARE better people and that's why they have better things :)

To identify Snobs you have to sneak in questions like their views on gentrification, political slants, foreign policy, immigration, welfare, etc etc...
 
Feanor said:
To identify Snobs you have to sneak in questions like their views on gentrification, political slants, foreign policy, immigration, welfare, etc etc...
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:wtf

nope.

Feanor said:
Questions of a material nature will rarely identify a snob, ...
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:rolleyes Um.. no. There is a direct economic phenomenon called 'The Snob Effect' that's based on the price of something.

Edit: oh OK maybe you mean they won't admit it. The upper part is still not true though.
 
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Reli said:
But the "good" side of the freeway has fewer people, so they should have less weight on the results.

The data is wrong, there is no way Dublin's income is #8, higher than Laguna Niguel and Rancho Santa Margarita.
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I'd be curious to see what their definition and methodology is for "per capita" or how the data was gathered. I don't really see a reason why they would "cheat" on the numbers, though that doesn't mean they wouldn.t :) They're a real estate blog, maybe they're trying to stimulate markets in their sphere of influence :)

And Piedmont isn't in the list which I find hard to believe :) Maybe they didn't provide any data, heh... I figure if the current serving President comes to your town every year for a fundraiser (democrat or republican) there has to be a correlation there with snob factor...
 
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You are right, it is an unincorporated area of Alameda county
 
I concur, especially when including the bordering neighborhoods/cities (Atherton/Menlo Park/Stanford).

We recently had a Starbucks open up on our work campus. However it was closed during the 4th of July so we had to trek down to the nearest one (Sharon Park in Menlo Park). My co-worker had mentioned to the barrista that "our" Starbucks was closed and there was a jaguar b-type on the line who was aghast to learn that we had our own Starbucks (that is inaccessible to the public). As in "who do you guys think you are that you think you deserve a Starbucks".

:laughing

I just about died laughing. Like having a Starbucks at work is like the pinnacle of ostentatiousness in this neighborhood of 1.5M median home price and luxury cars.
 
Feanor said:
Questions of a material nature will rarely identify a snob, particularly because they will not equate having nice things making them "better" or even better off... In a snobs eyes, they ARE better people and that's why they have better things :)

To identify Snobs you have to sneak in questions like their views on gentrification, political slants, foreign policy, immigration, welfare, etc etc...
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not really, you're way over complicating things.
most snobs are too shallow to know anything about foreign policy (lol).
just ask them what they think about people with money and people with only a little.

people are simple - especially most snobs. if they were smarter, they would hide it better.
 
Did they include the number of private country clubs as a metric? The snobbiest people on earth are old money east coasters. Bar none.

Let me qualify that a bit. The Snobbiest people I have ever known are old money east coast people. However, I have also known some old money east coast people who fucking get it. Those people were some of the sweetest and most gracious folks I have ever known. So in short, I would like to say that just because you have family money and are from back east, that does not mean you are by default a snob. Apologies if my original post came across that way.
 
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mike23w said:
not really, you're way over complicating things.
most snobs are too shallow to know anything about foreign policy (lol).
just ask them what they think about people with money and people with only a little.

people are simple - especially most snobs. if they were smarter, they would hide it better.
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Actually, Gentrification, and a person's view and attitude on it is exactly the metric of how they view people with little money, because it forces them out :)

I should clarify, when I mentioned things like foreign policy and political slant, I was identifying only those things that would indicate an attitude of superiority by way of either apathy or disdain. Foreign policy as in an attitude of "Those people", and immigration as in "only for maids and gardners" (I know a few people like this) So, actually not foreign policy as a discussion of things like trade agreements and border disputes, but "simply" (as you put is so well) how they look at other people who are different.
 
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Walnut Creek in the Top Ten :thumbup

Yup can see it :laughing

Interesting how San Rafeal is so well educated.
 
LOL @ Walnut Creek being on the list. The incomes up there are nothing special. And nobody I know views of it as being snobbish.

If you want true snobbery, most of Marin should be on the list. As well as certain districts of SF that think they're so culturally superior.
 
Santa Rosa, Berkeley (snobby in an "I'm no snob" way), Palo Alto, Burlingame, and SF (of course).
 
Most of the peninsula really except for parts of RWC and EPA
 
Reli said:
Burlingame? Really?
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If you're denying that Burlingame is that... then you really are lacking quite a lot of information really :laughing

It's not an absolute but wazzu is putting more correct information with his post above
 
revnort said:
With the exception of housing prices, and perhaps private schools (maybe) all of those things sound like great things for a place you would want to live. Snobby is an attitude and not this list of metrics.

This list and the fact it is considered snobby is pretty fucked up.
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Stole my snobby words.
 
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