Alexandria vs Arlington, McLean or Bethesda

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Anonymous wrote:I know this is a phrase we roll our eyes a lot at at DCUM but I have lived both places and my impression is McLean= new money and that is reflected in the eyesore McMansions and Alexandria City is understated old money crowd. Obviously not talking about the Fairfax county part.

Alexandria has class and character.

Mclean doesn't even know what that is. You couldn't pay me to live there.

McLean seems comfortably affluent. Alexandria seems stuck in the past, and insofar as the past in question is the pre-Civil War South that's not something I find especially appealing.

This is very true. It is a racist and bigoted city.

Only on DCUM can a city that went 80% Clinton and 80% Biden, that tears down confederate statues, renames streets, and is in the process of renaming TC Williams and Maury (meanwhile, Wilson high school in DC is still named after that racist president) be considered racist. The only people stuck in the past are the posters who sit acknowledge the current reality in Alexandria.

Yes, there is a lot to be said for a town of limousine liberals. They wave a lot of flags but they don't like living next to you if you're a person of color. Ask me how I know.

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McLean

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll chime in for Bethesda:
No bridges, seriously, we may have a longer commute than Arlington but there’s a million ways to get home if a bridge is blocked.
Easier access to NW DC
Downtown Bethesda is no longer cute or really home to mom and pop shops but it’s a good place to grab a bite to eat and the kids seem to love it
Schools are good and there’s a better selection of privates if that’s your jam
I know this is outdated, but personally, I could never live in part of the former Confederacy
If you are Jewish, it seems to be preferable

Bethesda has one advantage over other areas that you mentionned OP, soon there will be school rezoning and the equal access to good school will happen
so while McLean is cutter then Bethesda, Bethesda is much better because of already big diversity and even bigger ahead.

So bottom line, cuteness of the area - McLean

but better life and more fun - Bethesda that otherwise is really ugly.

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I live in McLean and I know quite a few families that moved here after previously living in Alexandria. They mostly moved for the schools. I do think it’s a boring town but it’s not far to drive other places.

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Our family moved to Alexandria 20 years ago. Most of the friends we met when we first moved here are still here, and we are still close. The community here is warm and welcoming: . It is like a small town where everybody is well educated, interesting and friendly . Our kids attended both Public and private schools depending on their needs. Lyles Crouch Elementary in Old Town was the best educational experience of them all. If you are outgoing, friendly, and want to be part of a welcoming community where families and neighbors support each other Alexandria is a fabulous place.

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Anonymous wrote:Our family moved to Alexandria 20 years ago. Most of the friends we met when we first moved here are still here, and we are still close. The community here is warm and welcoming: . It is like a small town where everybody is well educated, interesting and friendly . Our kids attended both Public and private schools depending on their needs. Lyles Crouch Elementary in Old Town was the best educational experience of them all. If you are outgoing, friendly, and want to be part of a welcoming community where families and neighbors support each other Alexandria is a fabulous place.

Somehow the statistics for Alexandria don’t even begin to suggest everyone in Alexandria is well educated, interesting or friendly.

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Anonymous wrote:Alexandria is a far cry from NYC, and you’ve yet to define what you mean by higher-income nor back it up with facts. And the fact that you focus on one segment of Alexandria’s population to the exclusion of others suggests you may not be as thrilled with the others as you’d like the rest of us to think.

I don’t dislike Alexandria, even though it’s a bit twee and stuck in the past, but I also don’t think the overall quality of life there is as good as in Arlington, Bethesda, or McLean.

OP here.

Curious why? What makes the quality of life lower in Alexandria?

Apparently PP likes to spend all his waking hours in a his car.

Exactly! OP, go to FaceBook and NextDoor. Read the posts from citizens and you will begin to understand exactly how unhappy most of the citizenry is in Alexandria. We cannot get from A to B in reasonable time frames because of changes to the streets and traffic lanes, we have city leaders who think it is okay to pump raw sewage into the Potomac River when it rains, we have streets that flood because the same city leaders refuse to take care of the aging sewer infractructure, the list goes on and on. To my knowledge, Arlington, Bethesda and McLean have none of those concerns.

Hey, you forgot your hashtags!

DP. Here, I'll help her out (because I agree with her).

#TakeBackSeminaryRoad
#JustinsTrafficJam

You seem to think there is just one person who is disgruntled because of the traffic problems. There actually are a lot of us as you will see when you go to FB and ND.

Nope. You're one person. No way there are two or more of you too stupid to understand the futility in employing hashtags on non Twitter/IG/FB platforms.

DP. Learn about the hashtag here, search it on Twitter, and pull up posts by dozens of upset Alexandria residents. It seems like a reasonable way to call attention to the existing concerns.

You don't think her canned, repeated responses are calling attention? The point of hashtags - when used properly- is that they are a direct link to related content. No need to leave the patform you're on and search it elsewhere.

Without the hyper link, they are simply references to concepts already mentioned by her screed. If I wanted to reference, say, Abe Lincoln here, it matters not whether there is a hashtag in front of the name.

It reminds me of Dave Letterman in the late 90s talking about "WWW" this and "WWW" that. There was just a fundamental ignorance of how this all works. Perhaps the lady is just old?

Soooooooo....all the hastags on the signs on Seminary Road and Quaker Lane and King Street (and other streets to plentiful to list) are wrong? Hundreds of people with the same signs are wrong?
Wow, the homeowners must be so embarrassed that they are doing hashtagging wrong. I hope you go tell them. You should go marching up to their doors and tell them that their signs are wrong because there is NO WAY that a passerby can touch the sign and find a "direct link to related content." They will, I am sure, beg your forgiveness for being so...wrong.

BTW, you'll be coming to our house, too. How embarrassing for us. My wife will be mortified.

#JustinsTrafficJam and #TakeBackSeminaryRoad

"All the signs". LOL.

Uhhh, there are maybe a half dozen losers still hanging that flag. The bike lane is going nowhere. You lost. It will be there long after your death.

Get over it. Pathetic.

But, there are Dozens of people. DOZENS in a city of 150,000.

Gonna go back to clutchin' my pearls about your mention of felatio.

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Anonymous wrote:I know this is a phrase we roll our eyes a lot at at DCUM but I have lived both places and my impression is McLean= new money and that is reflected in the eyesore McMansions and Alexandria City is understated old money crowd. Obviously not talking about the Fairfax county part.

Alexandria has class and character.

Mclean doesn't even know what that is. You couldn't pay me to live there.

McLean seems comfortably affluent. Alexandria seems stuck in the past, and insofar as the past in question is the pre-Civil War South that's not something I find especially appealing.

This is very true. It is a racist and bigoted city.

Only on DCUM can a city that went 80% Clinton and 80% Biden, that tears down confederate statues, renames streets, and is in the process of renaming TC Williams and Maury (meanwhile, Wilson high school in DC is still named after that racist president) be considered racist. The only people stuck in the past are the posters who sit acknowledge the current reality in Alexandria.

Yes, there is a lot to be said for a town of limousine liberals. They wave a lot of flags but they don't like living next to you if you're a person of color. Ask me how I know.

Hate to say it, but nothing of what you did is unique to Alexandria. Try living in Boston.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll chime in for Bethesda:
No bridges, seriously, we may have a longer commute than Arlington but there’s a million ways to get home if a bridge is blocked.
Easier access to NW DC
Downtown Bethesda is no longer cute or really home to mom and pop shops but it’s a good place to grab a bite to eat and the kids seem to love it
Schools are good and there’s a better selection of privates if that’s your jam
I know this is outdated, but personally, I could never live in part of the former Confederacy
If you are Jewish, it seems to be preferable

Bethesda has one advantage over other areas that you mentionned OP, soon there will be school rezoning and the equal access to good school will happen
so while McLean is cutter then Bethesda, Bethesda is much better because of already big diversity and even bigger ahead.

So bottom line, cuteness of the area - McLean

but better life and more fun - Bethesda that otherwise is really ugly.

McLean has some great attributes, but Bethesda and Chevy Chase are a lot more attractive than McLean in my experience...

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Anonymous wrote:Our family moved to Alexandria 20 years ago. Most of the friends we met when we first moved here are still here, and we are still close. The community here is warm and welcoming: . It is like a small town where everybody is well educated, interesting and friendly . Our kids attended both Public and private schools depending on their needs. Lyles Crouch Elementary in Old Town was the best educational experience of them all. If you are outgoing, friendly, and want to be part of a welcoming community where families and neighbors support each other Alexandria is a fabulous place.

Somehow the statistics for Alexandria don’t even begin to suggest everyone in Alexandria is well educated, interesting or friendly.

Can you show me statistics on friendly and interesting cities? I’d love to see those rankings.

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Anonymous wrote:Our family moved to Alexandria 20 years ago. Most of the friends we met when we first moved here are still here, and we are still close. The community here is warm and welcoming: . It is like a small town where everybody is well educated, interesting and friendly . Our kids attended both Public and private schools depending on their needs. Lyles Crouch Elementary in Old Town was the best educational experience of them all. If you are outgoing, friendly, and want to be part of a welcoming community where families and neighbors support each other Alexandria is a fabulous place.

And WHITE. You forgot to mention WHITE.

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Anonymous wrote:Our family moved to Alexandria 20 years ago. Most of the friends we met when we first moved here are still here, and we are still close. The community here is warm and welcoming: . It is like a small town where everybody is well educated, interesting and friendly . Our kids attended both Public and private schools depending on their needs. Lyles Crouch Elementary in Old Town was the best educational experience of them all. If you are outgoing, friendly, and want to be part of a welcoming community where families and neighbors support each other Alexandria is a fabulous place.

And WHITE. You forgot to mention WHITE.

Because the areas of Arlington, McLean and Bethesda the OP is interested in are not WHITE?

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Anonymous wrote:Our family moved to Alexandria 20 years ago. Most of the friends we met when we first moved here are still here, and we are still close. The community here is warm and welcoming: . It is like a small town where everybody is well educated, interesting and friendly . Our kids attended both Public and private schools depending on their needs. Lyles Crouch Elementary in Old Town was the best educational experience of them all. If you are outgoing, friendly, and want to be part of a welcoming community where families and neighbors support each other Alexandria is a fabulous place.

And WHITE. You forgot to mention WHITE.

Because the areas of Arlington, McLean and Bethesda the OP is interested in are not WHITE?

Not so much. It is that they don't pretend to be what they aren't. In Alexandria they talk like they are not racist and not bigots but their actions don't follow.

Someone on another page said "But we're changing the name of our schools!!!" when the reality is that the black community has been pushing for that name change for years. It was only with the advent of the BLM movement and racial unrest this summer that changing the names of the Alexandria schools from known racists and white supremacists to something else became attractive. Until then there was no plan at all. They like to watch the movie Remember the Titans but they don't understand the message of the movie.

I would much rather face blatant racism and bigotry in other places than the cloak and veil racism and bigotry that exists in Alexandria. If OP is okay with going along with the white crowd and playing the "I don't walk my talk" game then OP will love it in Alexandria.

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Anonymous wrote:Our family moved to Alexandria 20 years ago. Most of the friends we met when we first moved here are still here, and we are still close. The community here is warm and welcoming: . It is like a small town where everybody is well educated, interesting and friendly . Our kids attended both Public and private schools depending on their needs. Lyles Crouch Elementary in Old Town was the best educational experience of them all. If you are outgoing, friendly, and want to be part of a welcoming community where families and neighbors support each other Alexandria is a fabulous place.

And WHITE. You forgot to mention WHITE.

Because the areas of Arlington, McLean and Bethesda the OP is interested in are not WHITE?

Not so much. It is that they don't pretend to be what they aren't. In Alexandria they talk like they are not racist and not bigots but their actions don't follow.

Someone on another page said "But we're changing the name of our schools!!!" when the reality is that the black community has been pushing for that name change for years. It was only with the advent of the BLM movement and racial unrest this summer that changing the names of the Alexandria schools from known racists and white supremacists to something else became attractive. Until then there was no plan at all. They like to watch the movie Remember the Titans but they don't understand the message of the movie.

I would much rather face blatant racism and bigotry in other places than the cloak and veil racism and bigotry that exists in Alexandria. If OP is okay with going along with the white crowd and playing the "I don't walk my talk" game then OP will love it in Alexandria.

People like you are a riot. I guarantee you have Hispanics scrubbing your toilet.

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Anonymous wrote:Our family moved to Alexandria 20 years ago. Most of the friends we met when we first moved here are still here, and we are still close. The community here is warm and welcoming: . It is like a small town where everybody is well educated, interesting and friendly . Our kids attended both Public and private schools depending on their needs. Lyles Crouch Elementary in Old Town was the best educational experience of them all. If you are outgoing, friendly, and want to be part of a welcoming community where families and neighbors support each other Alexandria is a fabulous place.

And WHITE. You forgot to mention WHITE.

Because the areas of Arlington, McLean and Bethesda the OP is interested in are not WHITE?

Not so much. It is that they don't pretend to be what they aren't. In Alexandria they talk like they are not racist and not bigots but their actions don't follow.

Someone on another page said "But we're changing the name of our schools!!!" when the reality is that the black community has been pushing for that name change for years. It was only with the advent of the BLM movement and racial unrest this summer that changing the names of the Alexandria schools from known racists and white supremacists to something else became attractive. Until then there was no plan at all. They like to watch the movie Remember the Titans but they don't understand the message of the movie.

I would much rather face blatant racism and bigotry in other places than the cloak and veil racism and bigotry that exists in Alexandria. If OP is okay with going along with the white crowd and playing the "I don't walk my talk" game then OP will love it in Alexandria.

People like you are a riot. I guarantee you have Hispanics scrubbing your toilet.

And are completely delusional about other areas of the country. Go to DC where they talk about “flipping” their local public schools. Or to Bethesda where the “bad” MoCo schools just so happen to be the ones with more racial diversity. Or to Arlington, where Yorktown is considered the best and Wakefield the worst. Gee, I wonder why.