Is Langley HS loosing its appeal compared to Mclean?

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Anonymous wrote:I really hate to see what is a fairly trivial thread about two close-by schools with similar SAT scores devolve into someone bringing up two suicides to score debating points and drive home with a sledgehammer the obvious point that not every student will thrive at every school. Regardless of the motive, it's cruel and disrespectful.

I completely agree. And I can guarantee it's the same person or people doing it, yet again.

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Anonymous wrote:What I heard from my kid is that Langley is full of mean and pretentious kids.

Maybe a little status driven - you really can't avoid it since the kids come from families that are among the most successful. Their parents are competitive, so they have competitive kids.

No doubt some elements in this environment is not healthy, but on the whole, it's a great school with great academic achievements. If a kid cannot stand the pressures of a high school like Langley, then he/she is going to have bigger problems in college and life in general.

My kid transferred from Langley due to the pressure. She's at Emory and doing wonderfully.

My kids transferred to Langley from another NoVA high school. She's been loving Langley. People are different.

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Anonymous wrote:There are cheaper houses in the Langley boundaries. I don't know if this was always the case.

We could not afford any single family homes in McLean's boundaries. There were a large handful of houses that we looked over listings for in the Langley boundaries. We decided that there is little to no appeal to living in Great Falls, and that its cache will go by the wayside as people lean toward more urban living.

You go right on telling yourself that.

Affluent folks are embracing more urban living. This is not something that I need to tell myself - it is a bonafide trend. My DH and I work in DC and Arlington respectively - ain't nobody got time to commute from Great Falls. Is it aesthetically nice? Of course. But at the end of the day, that only counts for so much when you have a decent housing budget.

Why the fuck don't people understand there's a huge tech corridor in Western FFX and not everyone works in DC and Arlington? How narrow-minded DC people are!

Totally agree. It's like the only possibility they can imagine is that everyone either works in DC or Arlington. I only know two people in our neighborhood who work in DC (we're in Great Falls). Everyone else is in Reston, Herndon, McLean, Tysons, Vienna, etc. Short commutes, tons of jobs!

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