Why is McLean so prestigious?

[Anonymous]

Many McLean residents shop at Walmart, eat junk food, send their kids to public schools crowded with incompetent people and drive leased Mercedes. It is called prestigiously cheap.

[Anonymous]

Imaging reading this thread and still caring about 'prestigious' areas. You would be certifiably insane!

[Anonymous]

Where was Biden living in the DC area before the election? McLean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Imaging reading this thread and still caring about 'prestigious' areas. You would be certifiably insane!

Desirable areas have an appeal that transcends the trolling of a few losers on this forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many McLean residents shop at Walmart, eat junk food, send their kids to public schools crowded with incompetent people and drive leased Mercedes. It is called prestigiously cheap.

It's definitely not cheap.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:McLean is not prestigious. Who actually respects or admires McLean?

McLean is not a city. McLean is a just a hodgepodge collection of wealthy neighborhoods in Fairfax County with a few unimpressive shopping plazas and office buildings that constitute a car-centric "downtown."

That is part of its appeal. McLean does not want more traffic and more shopping. It has a hometown feel without being commercialized. It's admired and respected for that. Tons of folks put McLean in a high status. Why do you think people are clamoring to move there?

For every high-income earner clamoring to live in McLean, there are at least 10 others looking elsewhere.

Link?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where was Biden living in the DC area before the election? McLean.

What about Cheney?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one is forcing you to try to afford living in Mclean. But you sound ridiculous and ignorant in your remarks. Nothing on earth is better than Bethesda? A bit myopic?

Where did anybody say the above?
Definitely better than McLean and I don't even live in Bethesda or MD.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one is forcing you to try to afford living in Mclean. But you sound ridiculous and ignorant in your remarks. Nothing on earth is better than Bethesda? A bit myopic?

Where did anybody say the above?
Definitely better than McLean and I don't even live in Bethesda or MD.

Back a few ranting pages ago. Apparently nothing is better than Bethesda. Haha.

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Anonymous wrote:I am surprised to look at its Wikipedia page. I grew up in McLean and went to Langley. It was a quiet boring town with not very friendly neighbors. As for the wealth...most of the places in Fairfax county have wealth and there is no shortage of multimillion dollar homes in the area. Also most of its residents are elderly or empty nesters. I recall us being one of the few families with kids our age in our neighborhood.

I marvel mat this, because no matter how many decades my friends have lived in McLean - it seems it is ALWAYS old people.[b] It that even possible?

Recently there are more families in the $2m+ homes. So odd.

So true. I call the Giant the Geriatric Giant.

I have lived here for several years. From what my neighbors tell me, originally it was more of a place for families (1960's) but now the prices have increased so much that many residents are the older people who have owned their homes for decades. When they leave, the homes are torn down and replaced with the $2 million places. Even so, young families are increasing in McLean. The contingent of older people controls most of the civic decisions like the revitalization of downtown, and they don't want increased traffic or more amenities for young families.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one is forcing you to try to afford living in Mclean. But you sound ridiculous and ignorant in your remarks. Nothing on earth is better than Bethesda? A bit myopic?

Where did anybody say the above?
Definitely better than McLean and I don't even live in Bethesda or MD.

Back a few ranting pages ago. Apparently nothing is better than Bethesda. Haha.

No one said that.

[Anonymous]

It's because, due to the lack of any disagreeable odors from the resident's personal excrement, no sanitary system is required.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McLean is not prestigious. Who actually respects or admires McLean?

McLean is not a city. McLean is a just a hodgepodge collection of wealthy neighborhoods in Fairfax County with a few unimpressive shopping plazas and office buildings that constitute a car-centric "downtown."

That is part of its appeal. McLean does not want more traffic and more shopping. It has a hometown feel without being commercialized. It's admired and respected for that. Tons of folks put McLean in a high status. Why do you think people are clamoring to move there?

For every high-income earner clamoring to live in McLean, there are at least 10 others looking elsewhere.

Link?

NP but this is obviously true - McLean is not that big.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's because, due to the lack of any disagreeable odors from the resident's personal excrement, no sanitary system is required.

You really do sound like a psychopath. It's not healthy to go through life harboring that much resentment of other people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McLean is not prestigious. Who actually respects or admires McLean?

McLean is not a city. McLean is a just a hodgepodge collection of wealthy neighborhoods in Fairfax County with a few unimpressive shopping plazas and office buildings that constitute a car-centric "downtown."

That is part of its appeal. McLean does not want more traffic and more shopping. It has a hometown feel without being commercialized. It's admired and respected for that. Tons of folks put McLean in a high status. Why do you think people are clamoring to move there?

For every high-income earner clamoring to live in McLean, there are at least 10 others looking elsewhere.

Link?

NP but this is obviously true - McLean is not that big.

DP, but it's a meaningless statement to begin with.