Why is McLean so prestigious?

[Anonymous]

McLean is named after a guy who owned the Washington Post, large swaths of DC, and several sports teams back in the day, and whose son owned one of the most famous and expensive pieces of jewelry in the world, the Hope Diamond.

Wealthy and notable people have lived there for many decades.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

McLean has the VIPs and the most expensive suburban homes in the DC area along with Chevy Chase. Hate to break that to you.

In any case, you tip your hand by suggesting only one place in the region can be “prestigious.” You must spend a lot of time looking over your shoulder.
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Bethesda is more expensive and prestigious IMO.

Your opinion is irrelevant. Facts and home prices dictate that McLean is more expensive.

Expensive doesn't mean prestigious.
No one in their right mind would think that McLean is as prestigious as Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

McLean has the VIPs and the most expensive suburban homes in the DC area along with Chevy Chase. Hate to break that to you.

In any case, you tip your hand by suggesting only one place in the region can be “prestigious.” You must spend a lot of time looking over your shoulder.
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Bethesda is more expensive and prestigious IMO.

Your opinion is irrelevant. Facts and home prices dictate that McLean is more expensive.

Expensive doesn't mean prestigious.
No one in their right mind would think that McLean is as prestigious as Bethesda.

Get a life, Terp Boy. Plenty of people think it’s more prestigious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mclean = Potomac, Bethesda = Vienna, Arlington = Silver Spring, Fairfax = Rockville

As someone who has lived in multiple areas of MoCo and NoVa this is my best analogy for prestige and also for the general culture, demographics, and feel of each area.

You clearly don’t know Va

[Anonymous]

"Tomato, Tomahto", now get back to class!

[Anonymous]

McLean is home to Mars HQ and the CIA. It also contains Tysons Mall. It has been the home for top government officials, diplomats, military officers, members of Congress, etc. This makes McLean prestigious.

[Anonymous]

I find McLean gaudy compared to places such as rich Fairfield county, CT (Greenwich, Darien, Westport, etc.) where there's a ton of wealth, but the homes aren't soooo.... McMansion-ish, more landscaping, variety, etc. can't really see many of them from the street. I hate the towering McMansion on a plain flat piece of lawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

McLean has the VIPs and the most expensive suburban homes in the DC area along with Chevy Chase. Hate to break that to you.

In any case, you tip your hand by suggesting only one place in the region can be “prestigious.” You must spend a lot of time looking over your shoulder.
[Report Post]

Bethesda is more expensive and prestigious IMO.

Your opinion is irrelevant. Facts and home prices dictate that McLean is more expensive.

Expensive doesn't mean prestigious.
No one in their right mind would think that McLean is as prestigious as Bethesda.

Get a life, Terp Boy. Plenty of people think it’s more prestigious.

LOL. I didn't graduate from UMD and I don't even live in MD.
It's a fact that no one in their right mind would think McLean is as prestigious as Bethesda.
When people think of prestigious in this are, they usually have in mind Kalorama dc, Chevy chase MD and Bethesda.
McLean is a wannabe

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

McLean has the VIPs and the most expensive suburban homes in the DC area along with Chevy Chase. Hate to break that to you.

In any case, you tip your hand by suggesting only one place in the region can be “prestigious.” You must spend a lot of time looking over your shoulder.
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Bethesda is more expensive and prestigious IMO.

McLean is more expensive; prestige is in the eye of the beholder.

Would you say Loudoun county is prestigious?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

McLean has the VIPs and the most expensive suburban homes in the DC area along with Chevy Chase. Hate to break that to you.

In any case, you tip your hand by suggesting only one place in the region can be “prestigious.” You must spend a lot of time looking over your shoulder.
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Bethesda is more expensive and prestigious IMO.

McLean is more expensive; prestige is in the eye of the beholder.

Would you say Loudoun county is prestigious?

Depends where. Ashburn, no. Middleburg, yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mclean = Potomac, Bethesda = Vienna, Arlington = Silver Spring, Fairfax = Rockville

As someone who has lived in multiple areas of MoCo and NoVa this is my best analogy for prestige and also for the general culture, demographics, and feel of each area.

I think Potomac = great falls, Bethesda = McLean, Silver Spring is more lower than Arlington

CC-MD = McLean; Potomac = Great Falls; Bethesda = Fairfax County

Not

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

McLean has the VIPs and the most expensive suburban homes in the DC area along with Chevy Chase. Hate to break that to you.

In any case, you tip your hand by suggesting only one place in the region can be “prestigious.” You must spend a lot of time looking over your shoulder.
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Bethesda is more expensive and prestigious IMO.

McLean is more expensive; prestige is in the eye of the beholder.

Would you say Loudoun county is prestigious?

Depends where. Ashburn, no. Middleburg, yes.

What makes Middleburg prestigious?

[Anonymous]

As a McLean resident, I find these discussions totally piontless. We came here for the schools (and the schools are good) and we never checked whether our neighbor's money was recently earned or went back generations. As long as they were nice (and for most part they are) we were all good. Did not matter to us that RFK lived here or that Mars is HQd here. It is close to DC and reduced our commute time significantly. So there is that. Bethesda is great but we couldn't (for work reasons) move across the river. So we never compared McLean to Bethesda or CC. Did not happen. I love the Bethesda downtown but we dont need that in McLean as Tysons is a mile away. We prefer Mclean to Oakton not because of prestige but because Oakton would be a painful commute to DC. Not because "prestige" is an issue. I do care about property values as a i have big chunk of my assets locked-in to McLean and so far that has held up. If it hadn't i would be complaining (but real estate throughout the DMV gives no reason to complain).

There is no issue with politics. McLean has been voting democrats for years now. And the best part is that there aren't yard signs that scream partisanship. unless you think BLM is particularly partisan.

Ease up folks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing prestigious about McLean.

This. I grew up in the area and have never thought of McLean as prestigious. It is just a car-dependent suburb that has some bigger houses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mclean = Potomac, Bethesda = Vienna, Arlington = Silver Spring, Fairfax = Rockville

As someone who has lived in multiple areas of MoCo and NoVa this is my best analogy for prestige and also for the general culture, demographics, and feel of each area.

You clearly don’t know Va

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This is just so wrong. I’ve lived in Silver Spring and currently live in Arlington. They are nothing alike. At all. Bethesda is much, much nicer than Vienna.