Is Vienna snobby?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The main drag of Bethesda, Wisconsin Ave., is a mess but tolerable. Chain Bridge Road in Vienna is a real mess. It took me a hour to get from the town line to Nutley one day, and that was not unusual. Lots of sketchy business along that road.

Why so much traffic? Is this a destination or something? Is it like Mosaic or Reston center?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The main drag of Bethesda, Wisconsin Ave., is a mess but tolerable. Chain Bridge Road in Vienna is a real mess. It took me a hour to get from the town line to Nutley one day, and that was not unusual. Lots of sketchy business along that road.

Why so much traffic? Is this a destination or something? Is it like Mosaic or Reston center?

It's just a bottleneck, not a destination, with a lot of typical suburban strip mall retail. It's not a "town center" like Mosaic District or Reston Town Center.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lived there over a decade. Good place to live but it can get boring. There's a "don't rock the boat" and "keeping up with the Jones" mentality. There's a big premium on being nice, but not necessarily interesting.

Sounds like McLean, or any of the soulless suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lived there over a decade. Good place to live but it can get boring. There's a "don't rock the boat" and "keeping up with the Jones" mentality. There's a big premium on being nice, but not necessarily interesting.

Sounds like McLean, or any of the soulless suburbs.

McLean draws higher-income, more professionally accomplished people than Vienna, as does Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lived there over a decade. Good place to live but it can get boring. There's a "don't rock the boat" and "keeping up with the Jones" mentality. There's a big premium on being nice, but not necessarily interesting.

Sounds like McLean, or any of the soulless suburbs.

McLean draws higher-income, more professionally accomplished people than Vienna, as does Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Vienna isn't rich enough to be snobby about. It's like a second tier liberal arts college, lol. Sure, folks there have money, but not what it takes to go first tier like McLean or Bethesda.

If you're trying to avoid snobbery, I'd find out where PP lives and avoid that location...

HAHA yea.

Vienna has money but people are not snobby like mclean and bethesda. I swear the vast majority of people live there because of the title and nothing more. people have money in vienna and live there because of all the shops, activities and neighbors.

Absurd statement. Try commuting to downtown DC from Vienna, and then try commuting to downtown DC from Langley. Being near the Parkway, inside the beltway is a whole different ballgame in terms of proximity to DC than literally any part of Vienna. If I had a choice I would easily choose McLean. I prefer Alexandria though and hence I live there lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The main drag of Bethesda, Wisconsin Ave., is a mess but tolerable. Chain Bridge Road in Vienna is a real mess. It took me a hour to get from the town line to Nutley one day, and that was not unusual. Lots of sketchy business along that road.

Why so much traffic? Is this a destination or something? Is it like Mosaic or Reston center?

Traffic is deliberately slowed on the main artery through Vienna, Rt. 123. The traffic lights are timed to slow traffic down, the road is lined on both sides with many small businesses which have vehicles turning in and out of their parking lots, and speed limit enforcement is aggressive (the Town has its own Police Dept., with plenty of bandwidth for that kind of thing). It is the main roadway to get to the Beltway, 66, and eventually to the GW Parkway, so many commuters take it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The main drag of Bethesda, Wisconsin Ave., is a mess but tolerable. Chain Bridge Road in Vienna is a real mess. It took me a hour to get from the town line to Nutley one day, and that was not unusual. Lots of sketchy business along that road.

Why so much traffic? Is this a destination or something? Is it like Mosaic or Reston center?

Traffic is deliberately slowed on the main artery through Vienna, Rt. 123. The traffic lights are timed to slow traffic down, the road is lined on both sides with many small businesses which have vehicles turning in and out of their parking lots, and speed limit enforcement is aggressive (the Town has its own Police Dept., with plenty of bandwidth for that kind of thing). It is the main roadway to get to the Beltway, 66, and eventually to the GW Parkway, so many commuters take it.

You make it sound like the congestion on Maple Avenue/123 in Vienna is planned, but it’s really quite hellish. There’s no other stretch of Route 123 that bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Vienna isn't rich enough to be snobby about. It's like a second tier liberal arts college, lol. Sure, folks there have money, but not what it takes to go first tier like McLean or Bethesda.

If you're trying to avoid snobbery, I'd find out where PP lives and avoid that location...

HAHA yea.

Vienna has money but people are not snobby like mclean and bethesda. I swear the vast majority of people live there because of the title and nothing more. people have money in vienna and live there because of all the shops, activities and neighbors.

Absurd statement. Try commuting to downtown DC from Vienna, and then try commuting to downtown DC from Langley. Being near the Parkway, inside the beltway is a whole different ballgame in terms of proximity to DC than literally any part of Vienna. If I had a choice I would easily choose McLean. I prefer Alexandria though and hence I live there lol.

This. If you need to go to DC frequently, Vienna just isn't a good choice. And Mclean/Bethesda aren't the only choices people take when Vienna is inconvenient.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Vienna isn't rich enough to be snobby about. It's like a second tier liberal arts college, lol. Sure, folks there have money, but not what it takes to go first tier like McLean or Bethesda.

If you're trying to avoid snobbery, I'd find out where PP lives and avoid that location...

HAHA yea.

Vienna has money but people are not snobby like mclean and bethesda. I swear the vast majority of people live there because of the title and nothing more. people have money in vienna and live there because of all the shops, activities and neighbors.

Absurd statement. Try commuting to downtown DC from Vienna, and then try commuting to downtown DC from Langley. Being near the Parkway, inside the beltway is a whole different ballgame in terms of proximity to DC than literally any part of Vienna. If I had a choice I would easily choose McLean. I prefer Alexandria though and hence I live there lol.

This. If you need to go to DC frequently, Vienna just isn't a good choice. And Mclean/Bethesda aren't the only choices people take when Vienna is inconvenient.

Vienna just isn’t part of the conversation for people wanting to be close to but not in DC. They are mostly looking at Alexandria, Arlington, Falls Church, and McLean on the Virginia side, or Silver Spring, Takoma Park, Chevy Chase, and Bethesda on the Maryland side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Vienna isn't rich enough to be snobby about. It's like a second tier liberal arts college, lol. Sure, folks there have money, but not what it takes to go first tier like McLean or Bethesda.

If you're trying to avoid snobbery, I'd find out where PP lives and avoid that location...

HAHA yea.

Vienna has money but people are not snobby like mclean and bethesda. I swear the vast majority of people live there because of the title and nothing more. people have money in vienna and live there because of all the shops, activities and neighbors.

Absurd statement. Try commuting to downtown DC from Vienna, and then try commuting to downtown DC from Langley. Being near the Parkway, inside the beltway is a whole different ballgame in terms of proximity to DC than literally any part of Vienna. If I had a choice I would easily choose McLean. I prefer Alexandria though and hence I live there lol.

I know barely a handful of people living in Town of Vienna that physically work in DC.

Reston, Arlington, Tysons, Bethesda, but not DC. And practically everyone has some sort of flex job or wfh job. My husband and I both work out of the home and often feel like the only couple that does this. People are walking their dogs all day long.

DC is a huge physical job hub for people closer in, for those that can flex their time or wfh or have a job outside of DC, there is no need to be very close in. I work in Crystal City. My hours are flexible so I don’t travel during prime rush hour.

It’s a big world out there.

[Anonymous]

Vienna can’t be snobby, they have a bum

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No but they can be cliquey. People love living in Vienna, so as long as you get involved whether that be through your kids schools, activities with other adults your age, etc you’ll be fine. Many people grow up in Vienna and move back. It has a lot of traffic but also somehow has a small town feel in the middle of Northern Virginia.

I live in Vienna and I agree with this.

+1. I especially encourage you to get involved somewhere. I find the people pretty nice, actually, but they definitely bond and build communities and it's harder to break in over time. There are quite a few locally owned businesses that seem to have been around for awhile so people know the owners in the community. Baseball is a big thing. Soccer is pretty big too. I like that it's safe and my kids can ride to the town center and meet friends.

[Anonymous]

Vienna home builders and remodelers need not install bathroom exhaust fans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Vienna isn't rich enough to be snobby about. It's like a second tier liberal arts college, lol. Sure, folks there have money, but not what it takes to go first tier like McLean or Bethesda.

If you're trying to avoid snobbery, I'd find out where PP lives and avoid that location...

HAHA yea.

Vienna has money but people are not snobby like mclean and bethesda. I swear the vast majority of people live there because of the title and nothing more. people have money in vienna and live there because of all the shops, activities and neighbors.

Absurd statement. Try commuting to downtown DC from Vienna, and then try commuting to downtown DC from Langley. Being near the Parkway, inside the beltway is a whole different ballgame in terms of proximity to DC than literally any part of Vienna. If I had a choice I would easily choose McLean. I prefer Alexandria though and hence I live there lol.

I know barely a handful of people living in Town of Vienna that physically work in DC.

Reston, Arlington, Tysons, Bethesda, but not DC. And practically everyone has some sort of flex job or wfh job. My husband and I both work out of the home and often feel like the only couple that does this. People are walking their dogs all day long.

DC is a huge physical job hub for people closer in, for those that can flex their time or wfh or have a job outside of DC, there is no need to be very close in. I work in Crystal City. My hours are flexible so I don’t travel during prime rush hour.

It’s a big world out there.

depends what you like. Some people love to be in closer proximity to urban amenities for recreational reasons, not just for work even if they prefer raising kids in the suburbs or were pushed to move to the burbs for schools, more space, yard, etc.