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"OG" Hope Valley was largely built up in the 1920s-40s (though much newer infill is also a decent chunk of the housing stock there now) and includes many $1million+ estates. Old Tobacco money and Duke Endowment families. There are actually two mansions built in the 1930s on the market in Hope Valley right now...
There are quite a few neighborhoods in the surrounding vicinity that use "Hope Valley" as part of their name(most notably Hope Valley Farms) that are more typical 70s-2000s middle/upper-middle class suburban-type neighborhoods but wanted to get some of that name-brand recognition from the Old Money Hope Valley.
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Myers Park is the obvious one for Charlotte. Lot of status and money flowing through there, and it's where a bunch of old money people live. Myers Park High has educated entire families in this area too. I have a feeling a lot of people are going to push back when CMS inevitably changes the attendance zone to account for overcrowding...
I'd love to hear more about these old money parts of NC's smaller and sometimes dying towns. Are they intact and thriving? Are they in decline? Essentially, what's come of them in the last century?
Myers Park is the obvious one for Charlotte. Lot of status and money flowing through there, and it's where a bunch of old money people live. Myers Park High has educated entire families in this area too. I have a feeling a lot of people are going to push back when CMS inevitably changes the attendance zone to account for overcrowding...
My friends while in college also went in large numbers to Charlotte Country Day School.
Those words "country day" often translate to rich, private school from what I've seen in many cities.
Ravenscroft in Raleigh would be equivalent, but Broughton, which is a public high school, probably is the most desired of all in Wake County.
Inside the Beltline, old money fills that school up.
The funny thing is that having moved to Raleigh as I was entering junior high in Raleigh, and living in north Raleigh, I didn't even know that going to Broughton was a "thing" either. LOL
They must have not been so arrogant as they were in the 80's.
I've never met such a solidly smug group of people as those who went to Broughton High. They were extremely homophobic and acted like they were the greatest gift to mankind had ever existed.
I wonder if the view of a small-city skyline from campus ever had anything to do with that.
They must have not been so arrogant as they were in the 80's.
I've never met such a solidly smug group of people as those who went to Broughton High. They were extremely homophobic and acted like they were the greatest gift to mankind had ever existed.
I wonder if the view of a small-city skyline from campus ever had anything to do with that.
ITB in general is probably the most "elite" and cliquey "old money" enclave in the state honestly. Smug isn't quite the word I'd use...but the airs and pretense are definitely there. Only Chapel Hill comes close within the Triangle and it has a much more transient population so the "pedigree" isn't as much of a thing as it is "ITB".
Another interesting aspect of it is that even most of what is technically "ITB"....doesn't "count". East of Mordecai or Oakwood and/or south of Western Blvd/MLK.....you are out of the club.
Athens & Enloe High Schools are both is technically "ITB"....remind a Broughton Alum that and they'll have a visceral reaction lol.
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