Why is McLean so prestigious?

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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.

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

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

OMG, you people need to lighten up and laugh a bit.

I think that's the main reason why people rag on McLean. The boosters take themselves (and McLean) WAY too seriously.

Lighten up, Francis. It's just another boring DC suburb.

So, so much envy on display. LOL.

^^ case in point

No emoji is going to make you feel better about all that envy.

Envy about what exactly?

More emojis, same envy.

Different poster. Envy of what? Move to DC. Better housing, schools, commutes, food, clubs, etc. etc. etc.

No thanks.

But what is your answer for what you lack? A bigger (possibly) but much cheaper house? But what of your commute. And drip neighbors. And lack of access? Uggh. No thanks to that. And no envy here.

Having lived in both DC and McLean I’d say the QOL is far superior in the latter. But you do you.

Not in my neighborhood. There is nothing in McLean that compares. You must have had a small sample size.

McLean is full of people who could afford any DC neighborhood. Get over yourself.

I doubt that it’s “full” and that you are one of them. There are some but they did not choose wisely.

There are so many holes in your argument: schools, neighborhoods, access, etc etc. There are 6-8 homes near the river, the rest is McMansion boring. Recognize your station or lack thereof.

You seem to be quite worried about not having your own status sufficiently acknowledged. Get lost.

Quite the contrary. I don’t have to worry in the slightest. I just enjoy setting those such as yourself, who are quite lost, straight.

Your affectations are anything but convincing.

I am sorry you are not convinced. I can explain it to you but not understand it for you. Your loss. At least you are ignorant of your situation.

One reads your drivel and can only conclude denying DC residents voting representation in Congress may have been an enlightened decision after all.

That you lack the wit to respond with anything funny or biting makes clear why you are out in the hinterlands in the first place. Besides, who only has one home? So little of everything over the bridge and through the woods (or mostly traffic).

Why waste wit on an attention-starved poseur?

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Anonymous wrote:The most prestigious areas of DC >>>>> the most prestigious areas of McClean.

Not really, but I’m sure it makes you feel better to say so. You can put your ruler away now.

Actually yes and it’s not close.

Agreed, the bold face names live in expensive homes in Kalorama or Georgetown. McLean has the B and C listers. Name me some famous people in McLean, there are very few.

Bold face names like Ivanka and Jared? Snicker.

Right. That’s the whole nine yards. Besides. They left. I know it’s hard but please keep up.

Leaving DC is quite a common refrain these days, it appears.

But yet you couldn’t fill the occupancy! That’s good, the Obama’s detail doesn’t need the headache caused by your type anyway.

I try to avoid living near people responsible for super-spreader events. In any event we have less intrusion and more privacy.

You have “privacy” because no one wants to live out there! Didn’t get an invite? So 12th tier!

Right. That’s why a large number of the region’s most expensive sales, year after year, are in McLean.

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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?

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

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

OMG, you people need to lighten up and laugh a bit.

I think that's the main reason why people rag on McLean. The boosters take themselves (and McLean) WAY too seriously.

Lighten up, Francis. It's just another boring DC suburb.

So, so much envy on display. LOL.

^^ case in point

No emoji is going to make you feel better about all that envy.

Envy about what exactly?

More emojis, same envy.

Different poster. Envy of what? Move to DC. Better housing, schools, commutes, food, clubs, etc. etc. etc.

No thanks.

But what is your answer for what you lack? A bigger (possibly) but much cheaper house? But what of your commute. And drip neighbors. And lack of access? Uggh. No thanks to that. And no envy here.

Having lived in both DC and McLean I’d say the QOL is far superior in the latter. But you do you.

Not in my neighborhood. There is nothing in McLean that compares. You must have had a small sample size.

McLean is full of people who could afford any DC neighborhood. Get over yourself.

I doubt that it’s “full” and that you are one of them. There are some but they did not choose wisely.

There are so many holes in your argument: schools, neighborhoods, access, etc etc. There are 6-8 homes near the river, the rest is McMansion boring. Recognize your station or lack thereof.

You seem to be quite worried about not having your own status sufficiently acknowledged. Get lost.

Quite the contrary. I don’t have to worry in the slightest. I just enjoy setting those such as yourself, who are quite lost, straight.

Your affectations are anything but convincing.

I am sorry you are not convinced. I can explain it to you but not understand it for you. Your loss. At least you are ignorant of your situation.

One reads your drivel and can only conclude denying DC residents voting representation in Congress may have been an enlightened decision after all.

That you lack the wit to respond with anything funny or biting makes clear why you are out in the hinterlands in the first place. Besides, who only has one home? So little of everything over the bridge and through the woods (or mostly traffic).

Why waste wit on an attention-starved poseur?

If you actually had it, it would flow like water. But I understand, so much for you is hard work and a struggle. You need to conserve and be careful. You will run out. Toodles!

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Anonymous wrote:The most prestigious areas of DC >>>>> the most prestigious areas of McClean.

Not really, but I’m sure it makes you feel better to say so. You can put your ruler away now.

Actually yes and it’s not close.

Agreed, the bold face names live in expensive homes in Kalorama or Georgetown. McLean has the B and C listers. Name me some famous people in McLean, there are very few.

Bold face names like Ivanka and Jared? Snicker.

Right. That’s the whole nine yards. Besides. They left. I know it’s hard but please keep up.

Leaving DC is quite a common refrain these days, it appears.

But yet you couldn’t fill the occupancy! That’s good, the Obama’s detail doesn’t need the headache caused by your type anyway.

I try to avoid living near people responsible for super-spreader events. In any event we have less intrusion and more privacy.

You have “privacy” because no one wants to live out there! Didn’t get an invite? So 12th tier!

Right. That’s why a large number of the region’s most expensive sales, year after year, are in McLean.

Bozos can buy, still doesn’t mean “anyone” wants to live out there. Explained and not understood yet again.

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The only bozo is some asshole who gets worked up about a thread asking why many people find McLean desirable because he’s worried they might think his DC neighborhood isn’t as coveted. Classic DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:The most prestigious areas of DC >>>>> the most prestigious areas of McClean.

Not really, but I’m sure it makes you feel better to say so. You can put your ruler away now.

Actually yes and it’s not close.

Agreed, the bold face names live in expensive homes in Kalorama or Georgetown. McLean has the B and C listers. Name me some famous people in McLean, there are very few.

According to a PP, Biden lived there, and he's the arbiter of good taste when it comes to real estate decisions, so there you are.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The most prestigious areas of DC >>>>> the most prestigious areas of McClean.

Not really, but I’m sure it makes you feel better to say so. You can put your ruler away now.

Actually yes and it’s not close.

Agreed, the bold face names live in expensive homes in Kalorama or Georgetown. McLean has the B and C listers. Name me some famous people in McLean, there are very few.

According to a PP, Biden lived there, and he's the arbiter of good taste when it comes to real estate decisions, so there you are.

Let's see.. long time ago, the Kennedys lived there, also Zbigniew Brzezinski, Rumsfeld, Chenney and couple of Saudi Princes. Oh and Newt Gingrich, he still lives there on the same street where that Chinese family was massacre by their father few years ago.

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McLean: a place named for an alcoholic failson. Yay.

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Can you be in between and not have anything against/think it’s a good place to raise a family and not think it’s prestigious?

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Anonymous wrote:McLean: a place named for an alcoholic failson. Yay.

It wasn't named after an alcoholic. Perhaps you are referring to a son of the namesake.

Do you want to rename Washington, D.C. or Fairfax County, both named after slaveholders, or Arlington County, named after an estate owned by Robert E. Lee's family?

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Anonymous wrote:Can you be in between and not have anything against/think it’s a good place to raise a family and not think it’s prestigious?

Why not? "Prestigious" is in the eye of the beholder. There's no place in this area that appeals to everyone.

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McLame is prestigious.

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Anonymous wrote:The most prestigious areas of DC >>>>> the most prestigious areas of McClean.

Not really, but I’m sure it makes you feel better to say so. You can put your ruler away now.

Actually yes and it’s not close.

Agreed, the bold face names live in expensive homes in Kalorama or Georgetown. McLean has the B and C listers. Name me some famous people in McLean, there are very few.

According to a PP, Biden lived there, and he's the arbiter of good taste when it comes to real estate decisions, so there you are.

Let's see.. long time ago, the Kennedys lived there, also Zbigniew Brzezinski, Rumsfeld, Chenney and couple of Saudi Princes. Oh and Newt Gingrich, he still lives there on the same street where that Chinese family was massacre by their father few years ago.

Gross.

McLean should be incinerated and start over. Burn away the evil.

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Anonymous wrote:McLean: a place named for an alcoholic failson. Yay.

It wasn't named after an alcoholic. Perhaps you are referring to a son of the namesake.

Do you want to rename Washington, D.C. or Fairfax County, both named after slaveholders, or Arlington County, named after an estate owned by Robert E. Lee's family?

Doubly Credulous, Unrepentantly Middlebrow

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A pro-McLean thread dropping right as a $2T military occupation is proved to have been a fraud.

I wonder which ‘hood made the most off of that occupation?