What is it with McLean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McLean for it's high income is considered second-tier. Very new money, Johnny come lately. It's not NW DC or Bethesda/CC and you can tell. People there do ANYTHING to flaunt their wealth.

I hate to say it, because I do know some perfectly nice people who live in McLean. However, I think this poster got it right when stereotyping McLean. It doesn't have the same prestige as NW DC or Bethesda/CC, however, people who live there think and act like it's better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is assuming that so many of these threads use whether McLean has more "old" or "new" money as criteria for living there. Is that a legitimate quality of life question for you?

While irrelevant today, the fact is if we went through the names that most people love to associate as "old" money DC would have a far higher number both just numerically and per capita. However people from Va on these boards are very defensive so don't try to engage them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McLean for it's high income is considered second-tier. Very new money, Johnny come lately. It's not NW DC or Bethesda/CC and you can tell. People there do ANYTHING to flaunt their wealth.

I hate to say it, because I do know some perfectly nice people who live in McLean. However, I think this poster got it right when stereotyping McLean. It doesn't have the same prestige as NW DC or Bethesda/CC, however, people who live there think and act like it's better.

Hey, I like having non-failing schools in my neighborhood!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I hate to say it, because I do know some perfectly nice people who live in McLean. However, I think this poster got it right when stereotyping McLean. It doesn't have the same prestige as NW DC or Bethesda/CC, however, people who live there think and act like it's better.

I used to see George Will in the video store in Bethesda. That was about as exciting as it got.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
While irrelevant today, the fact is if we went through the names that most people love to associate as "old" money DC would have a far higher number both just numerically and per capita. However people from Va on these boards are very defensive so don't try to engage them.

Please indulge us and share the list. I'd like to know where the heirs of the old robber barons who owned all the factories in Georgetown and Spring Valley in the 19th century are living today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I hate to say it, because I do know some perfectly nice people who live in McLean. However, I think this poster got it right when stereotyping McLean. It doesn't have the same prestige as NW DC or Bethesda/CC, however, people who live there think and act like it's better.

I used to see George Will in the video store in Bethesda. That was about as exciting as it got.

Grew up in upper Georgetown. Everyone from Paul Taglibue, Freeh (The FBI director), to countless senators (saw Liebermans powerwalking a lot) and law firm managing partners lived in my neighborhood. Those were the days. All the girls I know either went to Holton or NCS and the ones that went to Bullis were considered "slow".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
While irrelevant today, the fact is if we went through the names that most people love to associate as "old" money DC would have a far higher number both just numerically and per capita. However people from Va on these boards are very defensive so don't try to engage them.

Please indulge us and share the list. I'd like to know where the heirs of the old robber barons who owned all the factories in Georgetown and Spring Valley in the 19th century are living today.

You know the guy who McLean is named after, John McLean lived in Forest Hills (even though I bet you have NO IDEA where that is) right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Grew up in upper Georgetown. Everyone from Paul Taglibue, Freeh (The FBI director), to countless senators (saw Liebermans powerwalking a lot) and law firm managing partners lived in my neighborhood. Those were the days. All the girls I know either went to Holton or NCS and the ones that went to Bullis were considered "slow".

You must have barely been able to contain yourself. By the way, that would be Paul Tagliabue, not Taglibue.

If the girls who went to Bullis were considered "slow," were the girls who went to Holton and NCS considered "fast"?

I suggest you rent "Metropolitan," by Whit Stillman, and then perhaps you'll recognize that living in a neighborhood where the managing partner of Arent Fox, or a senator who can't decide which party he belongs to, lives is not exactly the stuff of legend.

[Anonymous]

Wow. The level of snobbery and pretentiousness on this thread is really sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Grew up in upper Georgetown. Everyone from Paul Taglibue, Freeh (The FBI director), to countless senators (saw Liebermans powerwalking a lot) and law firm managing partners lived in my neighborhood. Those were the days. All the girls I know either went to Holton or NCS and the ones that went to Bullis were considered "slow".

So Louis Freeh is what you mean by "Old Money"?

That's a laugh. He's a humble Jersey boy who didn't have any money to speak of when was at the FBI. He only made some money after he left the FBI and started to work as a lawyer/lobbyist for Prince Bandar, a Saudi prince who, appropriately enough, lives in McLean.