posted by Mike Madison at 12:30 PM /
Mt. Lebanon ex-pat Jefferson Provost, recently relocated from Pittsburgh to the Seattle area, has blogged his impressions comparing his new home, Bellevue, Washington, to his hometown. A taste:
Like Mt. Lebanon (nicknamed Lebo), Bellevue is an upper-middle-class suburb with fantastic schools and a partially deserved reputation for being snooty. When we were about to move here, a friend of ours who had lived in Bellevue said that she felt like women looked down at her in the mall because her stroller wasn’t nice enough. My reaction? No wonder I feel so at home here. Seriously, it’s so Lebo: a relatively expensive place to live, where the overly status-conscious mix with ordinary folks who are willing to spend more on housing in order to make sure their kids are in great schools. Growing up in a place like that you learn to filter out the snootiness — the snobs inherently disqualify their own opinions from weight or importance — yet being around it again was still perversely comforting in some mysterious way. You can take the boy out of the suburbs, but you can’t take the suburbs out of the boy, I guess.
Labels: views from afar
1 Comments:
When I first came to work in Lebo, I was sure I would have a bunch of snooty women as clients.
It turns out that I met some of the funniest and most down to earth people ever. I think that most of the people here are just looking to live and raise their children in a nice community with an excellent school system.
After working in Lebo for a short three years, I knew I didn't want to buy a house anywhere else. And after living here now for six years, it's home. :)
Tina Saucier
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