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Hey bros, check this out: D.C. is the tenth preppiest city in America, according to real estate blog Movoto.

Movoto says they compiled this Very Important List by factoring in a number of different criteria that adds to a city’s supposed preppiness. Criteria that includes:

Number of preppy clothing retailers per capita

Country clubs per capita

Equestrian centers per capita

Private schools per capita

Presence of boarding/preparatory schools

Percentage of college graduates with a bachelor’s degree or higher

Median household income

The site then used a variety of search engines to collect the data for this list. A list that they presumably spent many hours compiling.

We then looked up data for these criteria using resources including Yellowpages.com, Yelp, retailer websites, Yachtclub.com, Boardingschools.com, and the U.S. Census for the top 100 most populous cities in America. Once the data was acquired, we ranked each city from one to 100 across all the criteria, with one being the best. We used the average of these scores to determine each city’s final Big Deal Score, the number we used to determine their overall preppiness. The lower this number, the better—and the more preppy.

From there, Movoto probably spent many, many more hours determining which cities ranked the highest in each category and then came up with this extremely arbitrary list, because this is important information we need to know.

The results find D.C. as the tenth preppiest city, right behind Portland, Ore. (wait, I thought Portland was all hipsters and hippies?), with San Francisco taking the number one spot. Here’s the rest of the rankings, in case you were dying to know (which you were):
1. San Francisco, Calif.
2. Scottsdale, Ariz.
3. Honolulu, Hawaii
4. Raleigh, N.C.
5. Seattle, Wash.
6. Boston, Mass.
7. Charlotte, N.C.
8. Plano, Texas
9. Portland, Ore.
10. Washington, D.C.

Of course, it’s not all that surprising that D.C. ranks as one of the preppiest areas in the country. Areas like Georgetown and Foggy Bottom—where roughly one in every three people have a popped collar (a statistic I just made up)—have become a mecca for preppy crowds, who flock to those ‘hoods like a moth to a flame every weekend. But with the city’s rapid gentrification, the preppiness is also spreading like wildfire. I mean, have you seen U Street lately?

Anyways, I’ll just leave this here: