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**joulseenjoync** · 06-14-2007, 03:50 PM

These days 'new' to 'old' money takes less than a generation...

.... but you try getting membership of some of the old established clubs in London, you're likely to be blackballed. Real class comes with its own insurance policy, ie social connections, people who've known your family, or been at the same schools, etc., people who are suspicious of "new money" and can check you out. Some well known "new money" entrepreneur millionaires have found it difficult, if nigh impossible, to break through these invisible but real social barriers and have been left frustrated and very annoyed. "Old money" still rules in places!

06-14-2007, 03:50 PM	#36
joulseenjoync Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 488 Senior Member	These days 'new' to 'old' money takes less than a generation... .... but you try getting membership of some of the old established clubs in London, you're likely to be blackballed. Real class comes with its own insurance policy, ie social connections, people who've known your family, or been at the same schools, etc., people who are suspicious of "new money" and can check you out. Some well known "new money" entrepreneur millionaires have found it difficult, if nigh impossible, to break through these invisible but real social barriers and have been left frustrated and very annoyed. "Old money" still rules in places!
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