Tysons or Bethesda
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Anonymous
+1. Only someone who grew up extremely privileged would describe 20-30k as immaterial. I make 2.2, but grew up with nothing and had to sacrifice a lot to get here, so I don’t consider 20-30k to be immaterial at all. I will continue to do everything in my power to give as little $ as possible to the government. |
Anonymous
Gov of Maryland is Black the Gov of a Virginia literally wore a KKK hood |
Anonymous
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new money vs old money
It's a tale as old as time |
Anonymous
The numbers speak for themselves. As a high income earner for OP, the county tax is going to be tens of thousands of $ss every year. |
Anonymous
As if renters pay any tax. |
Anonymous
If taxes are so important to you, why don't you move to TN, FL, TX, WA, etc? |
Anonymous
Nice try Marc Eldritch! Some people think they should be allowed to live in the DC metro area and still not get hosed with commmunist taxes. But I guess you don't udnerstand that as the worst mayor that has ever existed in Maryland. |
Anonymous
Ok then explain all the wealth in NY, CT, NJ, MA, MD, etc? Most that care about a few % here or there are new money or frankly think they are rich when they aren't. Most people that complain about taxes make less than 500k a year and say "I am getting killed." People with established wealth care more about the community they live in than saving a couple % in income taxes. Again, there is a reason why wealth is concentrated on the coasts.. |
Anonymous
And here, OP, is an example of the type of person you’d be living next to in Tysons |
Anonymous
Exactly ..a bunch of blowhard sales managers driving 3 series BMWs complaining about “communist taxes” |
Anonymous
Absolutely not. I'm a Tysons resident, and I don't know anyone like that irl. My neighbors are kind and thoughtful. |
Anonymous
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OP, this chain has gone off the rails a bit but I wanted to weigh in since we faced a very similar decision about a year ago. We did an exhaustive search throughout close-in Bethesda (inside beltway and easy access to 495) and McLean since we both work in Tysons. We ended up in McLean and have been very happy here. Doing such a wide search was awful and I definitely don’t recommend it— too many properties, too many failed bids, and too many neighborhoods to really know. We brought that upon ourselves.
But anyway, back to what you asked. I initially preferred Bethesda because I was more familiar with it, and had a couple of friends that moved there and seemed happy. Also i just perceived of it as “nicer / more tasteful / classier” and I guess I wanted to be associated with that. I honestly have no idea why I thought those things and I’m so embarrassed now about it but maybe it was linked to the many, many comments on DCUM about Bethesda being old money and McLean being more gauche. Neither of us are remotely close to old money but maybe I wanted people to perceive us as fancy (see I told you this was so embarrassing). Speaking to my friends in Bethesda turned up sort of similar sentiments about Bethesda being nicer, greener etc. And there are certainly some beautiful neighborhoods there (eg Bannockburn estates, etc). But the more time we spent there (our search was long), we realized that most of the neighborhoods that we wanted to live in were a 10 min drive to grocery stores, restaurants, etc. Also, neither of us plan to be at our current job for more than a couple of years and it seemed like NoVa, especially Tysons, had way more opportunities. Didn’t really seem like MD was doing as much to attract companies. Also, private school seemed to be a more common choice in Bethesda and we really want to do public. This may be changing in NoVa slowly - I don’t know. So we started spending more time in McLean and found that we really liked the neighborhoods bordering downtown. They were just a couple of minutes drive or a manageable walk to restaurants, library, community center etc. Super quick commute to Tysons when we need to go in. Great schools. We loved the offerings at the community center for our little kids. The community has been warm. We have been very happy. I don’t think you can go wrong with either Bethesda or McLean but if you work in Tyson’s or in a field that has a lot of options in NoVa, I think McLean could be a good fit. |