What is Bedminster?
1.
Scabby area of Bristol located near to the up and coming Southville. Often called bemmy by it's inhabitants (
I's goins' down bemmy, you comin'?
2.
A bubble town in Central New Jersey. A tiny place of huge expanses and horse farms, where the rich come to experience the country on their 300 acre estates. In the 1970s a developer sued the town for the right to build the largest housing development in New Jersey here. When the town denied the building rights, he sued on the basis that the town did not have enough low-income housing. So he built The Hills, a colony of the same exact beige house over and over again, and enabled people who were not in the top 1% of the earning class to have a Bedminster address.
Nearly 30 years later, the Hills is where the trash lives. West Bedminster is still enormous estates owned by blue bloods, who come out for weekends from their Park Avenue apartments and complain when their Bentleys break an axle from the crappy dirt roads. The estates are also a place for their children to throw parties when they come home from English boarding schools.
"Downtown" Bedminster is nonexistent, with a few shops. There is a strip mall by The Hills that offers a CVS, grrocery store, ice cream, and several crappy small stores that are constantly going out of business.
The public school is K-8 and has 80 kids per grade, so you stay isolated in the bubble until you hit your teens.
West Bedminster: You're from Bedminster? You must be incredibly rich and old money. Why aren't you at an English boarding school right now?
Hills Resident: No, I live in The Hills.
WB: Oh, so you're the trash that my taxes send to public school. Your parents work for my parent's Fortune 500 company. . . as janitors.
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