WaPo Data show D.C. area is feeling toll of federal spending cuts

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Anonymous wrote:Life in 2025 is very normal in my McLean neighborhood, very similar to last year.

BS
You have no idea what your neighbors are doing financially behind the scenes.

If they are new money and MAGA or Republicans, yep they are probably still spending the fools.

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Not sure if this is related, i am moving and was at uhaul store, it was packed with people.

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Anonymous wrote:Life in 2025 is very normal in my McLean neighborhood, very similar to last year.

Things seem normal on the surface in my N Arlington neighborhood. But I know several people who have been RIF’d, took DRP, or lost contracts.

I don’t think we’re feeling it yet because a) people are still getting DRP payments or severance (some even just retired early and won’t look for another job) and b) a lot of people have savings / homes with low interest rates, so they will cut discretionary spending and stay in their house as long as they can. Also many have spouses who earn enough they can coast on one salary for a while, they just may need to postpone reno projects or pull kids out of expensive camps.

I do think those who can weather this will bounce back in the long term.

I’m more worried about the handful of people I know who are dual feds and really can’t afford to lose 2 jobs. Or the people around the DC area who were stretched to begin with.

Yet again the wealthy will be fine and the working families reliant on their paychecks to string housing and childcare together will take the brunt. This administration is such a scam.

That's the key. Lot of wealthy people in McLean.

Yeah but that doesn’t mean things will continue as normal. They can weather it but some people will have to cut spending and people who overly stretched their budget to buy a house may not be able to hang on in the long term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Went to The Home Depot over the weekend. On Saturday afternoon, it was pretty empty. Strolled through the appliance section - only the cheapest possible brands. Nothing in the nursery in terms of trees. Maybe everybody is on vacation, maybe it is the economy.

Everyone is summering at their 2nd homes. Will pick backup in September.

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Anonymous wrote:Life in 2025 is very normal in my McLean neighborhood, very similar to last year.

Congrats on your insulation, I guess? I don’t even live in the DC area—I’m about three hours away—but I was at a sports competition for my kid recently and overheard conversations among parents from a NoVa team about widespread layoffs among their neighborhood friends.

The vast majority of people who live in McLean have a lot of $$$ to weather the bad economy. It is what it is.

And a lot were faking it and not making it.

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Anonymous wrote:Life in 2025 is very normal in my McLean neighborhood, very similar to last year.

Congrats on your insulation, I guess? I don’t even live in the DC area—I’m about three hours away—but I was at a sports competition for my kid recently and overheard conversations among parents from a NoVa team about widespread layoffs among their neighborhood friends.

The vast majority of people who live in McLean have a lot of $$$ to weather the bad economy. It is what it is.

And a lot were faking it and not making it.

Doubtful. You cant fake living in a million dollar home and driving $80k vehicles and sending your kids to private school year after year. Its not sustainable.

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Anonymous wrote:Life in 2025 is very normal in my McLean neighborhood, very similar to last year.

Congrats on your insulation, I guess? I don’t even live in the DC area—I’m about three hours away—but I was at a sports competition for my kid recently and overheard conversations among parents from a NoVa team about widespread layoffs among their neighborhood friends.

The vast majority of people who live in McLean have a lot of $$$ to weather the bad economy. It is what it is.

And a lot were faking it and not making it.

Doubtful. You cant fake living in a million dollar home and driving $80k vehicles and sending your kids to private school year after year. Its not sustainable.

You absolutely can. They can pay the bills and have nothing in the bank and find themselves losing all of it in seconds once a commission check doesn’t come through or a layoff or life event happens. Never confuse high earning with “rich” or “wealthy”.

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Anonymous wrote:Life in 2025 is very normal in my McLean neighborhood, very similar to last year.

Congrats on your insulation, I guess? I don’t even live in the DC area—I’m about three hours away—but I was at a sports competition for my kid recently and overheard conversations among parents from a NoVa team about widespread layoffs among their neighborhood friends.

The vast majority of people who live in McLean have a lot of $$$ to weather the bad economy. It is what it is.

Plenty of negatively impacted federal workers/fed contractors/fed adjacents in McLean. Unfortunately the PP doesn't understand that their anecdote are not actual data.

PP here. Maybe so; however, my neighborhood is Mackall Farms Ln in McLean, and life is the same in 2025, just like last year.

You post so often that you can easily be profiled.

You claim to be Asian-American and to have gone to Justice HS before you struck it rich and moved to one of the most expensive parts of the Langley HS district.

You claim to allow your relatives in Falls Church to claim they live at your house so they can attend Langley HS.

You lie squarely at the intersection of possible troll and over-the-top nouveau riche. McLean has plenty of the latter, so you get away with stuff that would get other posts deleted.

Of course you'd claim you and your neighbors are unaffected by federal spending cuts. You're only affected by the reactions you get to your posts on DCUM.

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Recessions come for everyone eventually, even the doctors and law firm partners. You just hope you’re insulated enough from the more immediate impacts and that it ends before it can spread to you.

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Anonymous wrote:Life in 2025 is very normal in my McLean neighborhood, very similar to last year.

Congrats on your insulation, I guess? I don’t even live in the DC area—I’m about three hours away—but I was at a sports competition for my kid recently and overheard conversations among parents from a NoVa team about widespread layoffs among their neighborhood friends.

The vast majority of people who live in McLean have a lot of $$$ to weather the bad economy. It is what it is.

Plenty of negatively impacted federal workers/fed contractors/fed adjacents in McLean. Unfortunately the PP doesn't understand that their anecdote are not actual data.

PP here. Maybe so; however, my neighborhood is Mackall Farms Ln in McLean, and life is the same in 2025, just like last year.

You post so often that you can easily be profiled.

You claim to be Asian-American and to have gone to Justice HS before you struck it rich and moved to one of the most expensive parts of the Langley HS district.

You claim to allow your relatives in Falls Church to claim they live at your house so they can attend Langley HS.

You lie squarely at the intersection of possible troll and over-the-top nouveau riche. McLean has plenty of the latter, so you get away with stuff that would get other posts deleted.

Of course you'd claim you and your neighbors are unaffected by federal spending cuts. You're only affected by the reactions you get to your posts on DCUM.

People can lie or not acknowledge life outside their own bubble, but either way anecdotes are not data. There is no way McLean is unscathed (as recent events at the McLean community center for fired federal workers show), and Fairfax county data shows otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:Life in 2025 is very normal in my McLean neighborhood, very similar to last year.

Congrats on your insulation, I guess? I don’t even live in the DC area—I’m about three hours away—but I was at a sports competition for my kid recently and overheard conversations among parents from a NoVa team about widespread layoffs among their neighborhood friends.

The vast majority of people who live in McLean have a lot of $$$ to weather the bad economy. It is what it is.

Plenty of negatively impacted federal workers/fed contractors/fed adjacents in McLean. Unfortunately the PP doesn't understand that their anecdote are not actual data.

PP here. Maybe so; however, my neighborhood is Mackall Farms Ln in McLean, and life is the same in 2025, just like last year.

You post so often that you can easily be profiled.

You claim to be Asian-American and to have gone to Justice HS before you struck it rich and moved to one of the most expensive parts of the Langley HS district.

You claim to allow your relatives in Falls Church to claim they live at your house so they can attend Langley HS.

You lie squarely at the intersection of possible troll and over-the-top nouveau riche. McLean has plenty of the latter, so you get away with stuff that would get other posts deleted.

Of course you'd claim you and your neighbors are unaffected by federal spending cuts. You're only affected by the reactions you get to your posts on DCUM.

I’m not pp but Langley is 33% Asian. Mackall Farms has only a handful of houses. I’m not sure why the pp would give such identifying info. I don’t personally know anyone who lives in the street but there are probably only 10 houses on that street, maybe less. We pass by it on our way to Langley.

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Anonymous wrote:Life in 2025 is very normal in my McLean neighborhood, very similar to last year.

Congrats on your insulation, I guess? I don’t even live in the DC area—I’m about three hours away—but I was at a sports competition for my kid recently and overheard conversations among parents from a NoVa team about widespread layoffs among their neighborhood friends.

The vast majority of people who live in McLean have a lot of $$$ to weather the bad economy. It is what it is.

Plenty of negatively impacted federal workers/fed contractors/fed adjacents in McLean. Unfortunately the PP doesn't understand that their anecdote are not actual data.

PP here. Maybe so; however, my neighborhood is Mackall Farms Ln in McLean, and life is the same in 2025, just like last year.

You post so often that you can easily be profiled.

You claim to be Asian-American and to have gone to Justice HS before you struck it rich and moved to one of the most expensive parts of the Langley HS district.

You claim to allow your relatives in Falls Church to claim they live at your house so they can attend Langley HS.

You lie squarely at the intersection of possible troll and over-the-top nouveau riche. McLean has plenty of the latter, so you get away with stuff that would get other posts deleted.

Of course you'd claim you and your neighbors are unaffected by federal spending cuts. You're only affected by the reactions you get to your posts on DCUM.

What year were you at Stuart/Justice, PP? 2001 here

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Anonymous wrote:Life in 2025 is very normal in my McLean neighborhood, very similar to last year.

Congrats on your insulation, I guess? I don’t even live in the DC area—I’m about three hours away—but I was at a sports competition for my kid recently and overheard conversations among parents from a NoVa team about widespread layoffs among their neighborhood friends.

The vast majority of people who live in McLean have a lot of $$$ to weather the bad economy. It is what it is.

Plenty of negatively impacted federal workers/fed contractors/fed adjacents in McLean. Unfortunately the PP doesn't understand that their anecdote are not actual data.

PP here. Maybe so; however, my neighborhood is Mackall Farms Ln in McLean, and life is the same in 2025, just like last year.

You post so often that you can easily be profiled.

You claim to be Asian-American and to have gone to Justice HS before you struck it rich and moved to one of the most expensive parts of the Langley HS district.

You claim to allow your relatives in Falls Church to claim they live at your house so they can attend Langley HS.

You lie squarely at the intersection of possible troll and over-the-top nouveau riche. McLean has plenty of the latter, so you get away with stuff that would get other posts deleted.

Of course you'd claim you and your neighbors are unaffected by federal spending cuts. You're only affected by the reactions you get to your posts on DCUM.

I’m not pp but Langley is 33% Asian. Mackall Farms has only a handful of houses. I’m not sure why the pp would give such identifying info. I don’t personally know anyone who lives in the street but there are probably only 10 houses on that street, maybe less. We pass by it on our way to Langley.

How absurd. You’re not seeing foreclosure signs on the nine other houses in your neighborhood so everything is ok? You have no idea what’s going on with your neighbors or the vast majority of the people in your town.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is related, i am moving and was at uhaul store, it was packed with people.

U-Haul always seems packed to me…I needed one three years ago just to take some items for my kid’s robotics team and it was jam packed.

They do have the cheapest vans/trucks that you can rent for 24 hours vs trying to rent a pickup from say enterprise.

[Anonymous]

We are still on vacation in Europe. We'll be back mid-September. We've been vacationing since June!