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I assume you're asking for an explanation of what "summers" or "summering" means. The basics of it are those with wealth can afford to spend weeks/months away

I assume you're asking for an explanation of what "summers" or "summering" means. The basics of it are those with wealth can afford to spend weeks/months away from the place they call "home". They can also afford to drop their work commitments, or otherwise force those around them to conform to their wishes. With that in mind, wealthy people from New York are known to "summer" in the Hamptons. Well off retirees will also migrate from Florida to New York / Maine depending on the season, which is akin to "summering". I'm not from the west coast so I'm not sure where people from the bay area go to "summer" -- I would assume Napa Valley. By asking someone where they "summer" you are asking about their socioeconomic status.

rfrank 10y ago
Never really been a thing around here from my experience, and I grew up in Alamo, surrounded by the type of people who would happily flaunt a summer home. Second properties are usually in Tahoe or southern California somewhere, maybe Hawaii. I know a few people who have done the whole Napa thing and started their own labels of varying quality, but that's less common.
- rhizome 10y ago
  Summering/Wintering is more of an East Coast thing where there is crappy weather during those seasons. Northern California has never had to have that tradition for itself, where people are more likely to have a "cabin," or vacation house.
  - rfrank 10y ago
    Yeah, the whole thing seem to be about going somewhere that has weather your home doesn't have. In norcal that means snow.
    - rhizome 10y ago
      Sure, but Tahoe/snow residences are mostly called cabins and at any rate most people don't spend the whole season there so much as use it as home base when skiing or spending weekends and occasional weeks there.
      - rfrank 10y ago
        Yes, the differences (and lack of, really) "summering culture" is something I acknowledged in the first sentence of my earlier comment.

rfrank 10y ago

Never really been a thing around here from my experience, and I grew up in Alamo, surrounded by the type of people who would happily flaunt a summer home. Second properties are usually in Tahoe or southern California somewhere, maybe Hawaii. I know a few people who have done the whole Napa thing and started their own labels of varying quality, but that's less common.

rhizome 10y ago
Summering/Wintering is more of an East Coast thing where there is crappy weather during those seasons. Northern California has never had to have that tradition for itself, where people are more likely to have a "cabin," or vacation house.
- rfrank 10y ago
  Yeah, the whole thing seem to be about going somewhere that has weather your home doesn't have. In norcal that means snow.
  - rhizome 10y ago
    Sure, but Tahoe/snow residences are mostly called cabins and at any rate most people don't spend the whole season there so much as use it as home base when skiing or spending weekends and occasional weeks there.
    - rfrank 10y ago
      Yes, the differences (and lack of, really) "summering culture" is something I acknowledged in the first sentence of my earlier comment.