At what HHI did you love to McLean?

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Anonymous wrote:And why? How old were you?
How much did your house cost?

Why do you have to move to McLean, OP? Is it a goal of yours? Do you have other options?

Ugly Great Falls poster shows up on cue.

DP. What are you talking about? Pp had good questions, none of which imply any ugliness or living in Great Falls.

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Anonymous wrote:And why? How old were you?
How much did your house cost?

Bought in 2022. Hhi 400k. House cost 2M. 35 years old. Best combination of safe neighborhood and close to dc.

What is your interest rate? How do you possibly make mortgage payments on $2m house with 400k hhi? Do you have help? Other income? Asking becuase I'm close HHI wise, but find the morgage payments (approx $6k for $900,000/$1m house with 24% or so down) a crazy stretch!

Yes we have help and the rate was lower than now. You need a big down payment to afford McLean. 20% doesn’t cut it.

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It’s a great place to live. Love the schools, relative lack of congestion, green space, and privacy that neighbors afford one another.

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I moved from the Clarendon/Ballston corridor to McLean and our life in McLean is much better and less stressful. Doing anything around Clarendon/Ballston was a traffic nightmare. In McLean, despite the fact that we can’t walk many places, we spend probably 80% less time in the car. We can get to multiple parks, multiple grocery stores, and multiple schools in under 7 minutes, whereas driving through Ballston/Clarendon took 2-4x as long due to traffic.

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Anonymous wrote:I moved from the Clarendon/Ballston corridor to McLean and our life in McLean is much better and less stressful. Doing anything around Clarendon/Ballston was a traffic nightmare. In McLean, despite the fact that we can’t walk many places, we spend probably 80% less time in the car. We can get to multiple parks, multiple grocery stores, and multiple schools in under 7 minutes, whereas driving through Ballston/Clarendon took 2-4x as long due to traffic.

Why were you driving if you lived in Clarendon? We live here and walk everywhere except the pediatrician...

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Anonymous wrote:I moved from the Clarendon/Ballston corridor to McLean and our life in McLean is much better and less stressful. Doing anything around Clarendon/Ballston was a traffic nightmare. In McLean, despite the fact that we can’t walk many places, we spend probably 80% less time in the car. We can get to multiple parks, multiple grocery stores, and multiple schools in under 7 minutes, whereas driving through Ballston/Clarendon took 2-4x as long due to traffic.

Why were you driving if you lived in Clarendon? We live here and walk everywhere except the pediatrician...

I can’t imagine taking so much pride in largely confining oneself to one area in NoVa. It’s not like Clarendon is Paris.

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Anonymous wrote:I moved from the Clarendon/Ballston corridor to McLean and our life in McLean is much better and less stressful. Doing anything around Clarendon/Ballston was a traffic nightmare. In McLean, despite the fact that we can’t walk many places, we spend probably 80% less time in the car. We can get to multiple parks, multiple grocery stores, and multiple schools in under 7 minutes, whereas driving through Ballston/Clarendon took 2-4x as long due to traffic.

Why were you driving if you lived in Clarendon? We live here and walk everywhere except the pediatrician...

I can’t imagine taking so much pride in largely confining oneself to one area in NoVa. It’s not like Clarendon is Paris.

Of course not. How many equivalents to Paris are you thinking of? It's laughable that you would make this comparison for anywhere in the DC area. But if you're not paying for walkability, what are you paying for?

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Anonymous wrote:I moved from the Clarendon/Ballston corridor to McLean and our life in McLean is much better and less stressful. Doing anything around Clarendon/Ballston was a traffic nightmare. In McLean, despite the fact that we can’t walk many places, we spend probably 80% less time in the car. We can get to multiple parks, multiple grocery stores, and multiple schools in under 7 minutes, whereas driving through Ballston/Clarendon took 2-4x as long due to traffic.

Why were you driving if you lived in Clarendon? We live here and walk everywhere except the pediatrician...

I can’t imagine taking so much pride in largely confining oneself to one area in NoVa. It’s not like Clarendon is Paris.

My company just moved to a building opposite the Clarendon Metro Station. The two restaurants in our building closed and at lunch there are maybe four to six people in any of the restaurants, even the decent ones like Maison Cheryl, Lyon Hall, Circa, and Liberty Tavern. The stores are closing and being replaced by restaurants that the area can't support. We live near Lee-Harrison Center and Westover, and both places have more people and energy.

I suppose Clarendon is okay for the young people who go to the bars but I was surprised at how lifeless it is during the week.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved from the Clarendon/Ballston corridor to McLean and our life in McLean is much better and less stressful. Doing anything around Clarendon/Ballston was a traffic nightmare. In McLean, despite the fact that we can’t walk many places, we spend probably 80% less time in the car. We can get to multiple parks, multiple grocery stores, and multiple schools in under 7 minutes, whereas driving through Ballston/Clarendon took 2-4x as long due to traffic.

Why were you driving if you lived in Clarendon? We live here and walk everywhere except the pediatrician...

I can’t imagine taking so much pride in largely confining oneself to one area in NoVa. It’s not like Clarendon is Paris.

Of course not. How many equivalents to Paris are you thinking of? It's laughable that you would make this comparison for anywhere in the DC area. But if you're not paying for walkability, what are you paying for?

Schools and safety

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved from the Clarendon/Ballston corridor to McLean and our life in McLean is much better and less stressful. Doing anything around Clarendon/Ballston was a traffic nightmare. In McLean, despite the fact that we can’t walk many places, we spend probably 80% less time in the car. We can get to multiple parks, multiple grocery stores, and multiple schools in under 7 minutes, whereas driving through Ballston/Clarendon took 2-4x as long due to traffic.

Why were you driving if you lived in Clarendon? We live here and walk everywhere except the pediatrician...

I can’t imagine taking so much pride in largely confining oneself to one area in NoVa. It’s not like Clarendon is Paris.

My company just moved to a building opposite the Clarendon Metro Station. The two restaurants in our building closed and at lunch there are maybe four to six people in any of the restaurants, even the decent ones like Maison Cheryl, Lyon Hall, Circa, and Liberty Tavern. The stores are closing and being replaced by restaurants that the area can't support. We live near Lee-Harrison Center and Westover, and both places have more people and energy.

I suppose Clarendon is okay for the young people who go to the bars but I was surprised at how lifeless it is during the week.

Out of curiosity, are you comparing them at the same time of day?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved from the Clarendon/Ballston corridor to McLean and our life in McLean is much better and less stressful. Doing anything around Clarendon/Ballston was a traffic nightmare. In McLean, despite the fact that we can’t walk many places, we spend probably 80% less time in the car. We can get to multiple parks, multiple grocery stores, and multiple schools in under 7 minutes, whereas driving through Ballston/Clarendon took 2-4x as long due to traffic.

Why were you driving if you lived in Clarendon? We live here and walk everywhere except the pediatrician...

I can’t imagine taking so much pride in largely confining oneself to one area in NoVa. It’s not like Clarendon is Paris.

Of course not. How many equivalents to Paris are you thinking of? It's laughable that you would make this comparison for anywhere in the DC area. But if you're not paying for walkability, what are you paying for?

Schools and safety

You can't be serious.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved from the Clarendon/Ballston corridor to McLean and our life in McLean is much better and less stressful. Doing anything around Clarendon/Ballston was a traffic nightmare. In McLean, despite the fact that we can’t walk many places, we spend probably 80% less time in the car. We can get to multiple parks, multiple grocery stores, and multiple schools in under 7 minutes, whereas driving through Ballston/Clarendon took 2-4x as long due to traffic.

Why were you driving if you lived in Clarendon? We live here and walk everywhere except the pediatrician...

I can’t imagine taking so much pride in largely confining oneself to one area in NoVa. It’s not like Clarendon is Paris.

PP was talking about driving to the grocery store in McLean, not the Louvre.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved from the Clarendon/Ballston corridor to McLean and our life in McLean is much better and less stressful. Doing anything around Clarendon/Ballston was a traffic nightmare. In McLean, despite the fact that we can’t walk many places, we spend probably 80% less time in the car. We can get to multiple parks, multiple grocery stores, and multiple schools in under 7 minutes, whereas driving through Ballston/Clarendon took 2-4x as long due to traffic.

Why were you driving if you lived in Clarendon? We live here and walk everywhere except the pediatrician...

I can’t imagine taking so much pride in largely confining oneself to one area in NoVa. It’s not like Clarendon is Paris.

Of course not. How many equivalents to Paris are you thinking of? It's laughable that you would make this comparison for anywhere in the DC area. But if you're not paying for walkability, what are you paying for?

Overall convenience, location, schools, neighborhoods, privacy.

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Does McLean have any neighborhoods where kids are running back and forth between each others houses, biking in packs etc.? I did not see any myself when looking.

Ended up settling in Vienna in a neighborhood where this happens

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved from the Clarendon/Ballston corridor to McLean and our life in McLean is much better and less stressful. Doing anything around Clarendon/Ballston was a traffic nightmare. In McLean, despite the fact that we can’t walk many places, we spend probably 80% less time in the car. We can get to multiple parks, multiple grocery stores, and multiple schools in under 7 minutes, whereas driving through Ballston/Clarendon took 2-4x as long due to traffic.

Why were you driving if you lived in Clarendon? We live here and walk everywhere except the pediatrician...

I can’t imagine taking so much pride in largely confining oneself to one area in NoVa. It’s not like Clarendon is Paris.

Of course not. How many equivalents to Paris are you thinking of? It's laughable that you would make this comparison for anywhere in the DC area. But if you're not paying for walkability, what are you paying for?

Overall convenience, location, schools, neighborhoods, privacy.

What do you mean by privacy?