full-on snoburbia

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My neighborhood has changed since we moved in. There used to be a few remaining blue-collar families - the roofer next door, the tow truck driver down the street. Now they are all gone, as the housing prices have hit $1 million (plus). In their stead, lawyers and doctors and executives have moved in.

Nowhere is this demographic change more evident than at our local elementary school. When we first started there, back in the late 1990s, there were still some women with frizzy (undyed!) hair and full skirts.

Not now.

Now it's a sea of Athleta yoga pants and Marmot vests. Their bottoms are pert and their hair is blonde. Their teeth are pearly white.

It's full-on snoburbia now. No denying it.

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Comments

[Karen Watkins]

Well I guess it's a comfort to know (or not) that sweat pants (no matter how you gussie 'em up) still seem to be the "mom" clothes de rigueur.

[justafed]

But I detect a snoburban continuity error: in the photo, the mom depicted appears to be holding a cigarette. I thought that was beyond the pale in snoburbia?

[snoburbia]

Good eyes, justafed. Geez! But let's just say it's an ink pen.