If you could live anywhere in the DC area...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"undercurrent of tension between the newcomers and the people trying to hang on to their community."

OMG - McLean is known for this! The old house owners can't stand the new house owners. The old house owners can barely afford to stay there, and either have frozen taxes (via age) or try to lower their taxes by playing the "hate the McMansion card" with the property tax office. It's comical.

You post the same thing all the time. It's not very convincing. I sure wouldn't be too unhappy if I could sell a paid-off house I bought for $30,000 for $850,000 today (or get a tax abatement if I didn't have much current income and wanted to stay in the area).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"undercurrent of tension between the newcomers and the people trying to hang on to their community."

OMG - McLean is known for this! The old house owners can't stand the new house owners. The old house owners can barely afford to stay there, and either have frozen taxes (via age) or try to lower their taxes by playing the "hate the McMansion card" with the property tax office. It's comical.

Or they try to burn down the new houses http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/350659.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ You'll have to go far away from DC to find decent people. Try rural southwest VA for decent, hardworking people.

Too religious.

and red-necky. I know it's not a word people like around here, but it is true. And I don't tjink the people I was forced to associate with in rural southwest va are decent OR hardworking in any sense of these words.

Yeah, duck dynasty type people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"undercurrent of tension between the newcomers and the people trying to hang on to their community."

OMG - McLean is known for this! The old house owners can't stand the new house owners. The old house owners can barely afford to stay there, and either have frozen taxes (via age) or try to lower their taxes by playing the "hate the McMansion card" with the property tax office. It's comical.

Or they try to burn down the new houses http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/350659.page

That house isn't even in McLean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"undercurrent of tension between the newcomers and the people trying to hang on to their community."

OMG - McLean is known for this! The old house owners can't stand the new house owners. The old house owners can barely afford to stay there, and either have frozen taxes (via age) or try to lower their taxes by playing the "hate the McMansion card" with the property tax office. It's comical.

Or they try to burn down the new houses http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/350659.page

That house isn't even in McLean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Forest Hills, DC

Don't like Forrest Hills. lacks character, just as Spring Valley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"undercurrent of tension between the newcomers and the people trying to hang on to their community."

OMG - McLean is known for this! The old house owners can't stand the new house owners. The old house owners can barely afford to stay there, and either have frozen taxes (via age) or try to lower their taxes by playing the "hate the McMansion card" with the property tax office. It's comical.

You post the same thing all the time. It's not very convincing. I sure wouldn't be too unhappy if I could sell a paid-off house I bought for $30,000 for $850,000 today (or get a tax abatement if I didn't have much current income and wanted to stay in the area).

No, actually I do not post the "same thing all the time". There is more than one knowledgable poster on this board. Shocker, I know.

Who on earth stays in McLean hell if they do not have to?

$30k in McLean - so you bought in 1962? And no abatement yet? You are doing many things wrong - posting here not the least of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"undercurrent of tension between the newcomers and the people trying to hang on to their community."

OMG - McLean is known for this! The old house owners can't stand the new house owners. The old house owners can barely afford to stay there, and either have frozen taxes (via age) or try to lower their taxes by playing the "hate the McMansion card" with the property tax office. It's comical.

You post the same thing all the time. It's not very convincing. I sure wouldn't be too unhappy if I could sell a paid-off house I bought for $30,000 for $850,000 today (or get a tax abatement if I didn't have much current income and wanted to stay in the area).

No, actually I do not post the "same thing all the time". There is more than one knowledgable poster on this board. Shocker, I know.

Who on earth stays in McLean hell if they do not have to?

$30k in McLean - so you bought in 1962? And no abatement yet? You are doing many things wrong - posting here not the least of it.

You are sad, and do just keep repeating yourself here. All your posts sound just the same.

The volume of million-dollar sales in McLean every year speaks to the strong demand for housing in the area. Most of the older residents and newcomers get along just fine. The older residents know how valuable their homes have become.