McLean going downhill

[Anonymous]

Do you think property values will drop as DC-based government gets gutted? I don’t think McLean has much going for it other than proximity to the city. It has always been a bit of a soulless dump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you think property values will drop as DC-based government gets gutted? I don’t think McLean has much going for it other than proximity to the city. It has always been a bit of a soulless dump.

You are an idiot or a troll. It has the best location between the two major job centers in the region (DC and Tysons), the largest concentration of high-end properties in the DMV, and some of the best public schools. It attracts people during every administration, and within the last year the Wall Street Journal profiled 22101 as the most expensive zip code in the DC region.

[Anonymous]

Parts of McLean have been an eye sore for multiple decades. You’re just now noticing it. It’s an area with an undeserved reputation. It’s slightly nicer Springfield with pockets of incredible wealth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parts of McLean have been an eye sore for multiple decades. You’re just now noticing it. It’s an area with an undeserved reputation. It’s slightly nicer Springfield with pockets of incredible wealth.

Laughing at the idea that some rando on this forum thinks they’re the arbiter of an area’s reputation. Maybe you can get the WSJ to issue a retraction but I doubt it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parts of McLean have been an eye sore for multiple decades. You’re just now noticing it. It’s an area with an undeserved reputation. It’s slightly nicer Springfield with pockets of incredible wealth.

Agree with this. Not surprised this is around central or "downtown" McLean if you want to call it that. Much of that area is an eye sore and is made up with a significant percentage of what should be tear down properties. The nicer areas are closer to Great Falls and Langley high school. Some areas are slowly being torn down and replaced with much nicer homes like in Salona village

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh my heavens! In fabulous McLean? Sad part is that most nouveau rich were effectively homeless back in their countries of birth. Sad how $$ changes people.

What a statement.

[Anonymous]

I watched one pan handler park her car at the gas station and then walk across the street to a 7-11 to beg with her cardboard sign. There’s a lot of fakers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you think property values will drop as DC-based government gets gutted? I don’t think McLean has much going for it other than proximity to the city. It has always been a bit of a soulless dump.

Rubbish! Complete rubbish!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parts of McLean have been an eye sore for multiple decades. You’re just now noticing it. It’s an area with an undeserved reputation. It’s slightly nicer Springfield with pockets of incredible wealth.

Laughing at the idea that some rando on this forum thinks they’re the arbiter of an area’s reputation. Maybe you can get the WSJ to issue a retraction but I doubt it.

I’ve laughed for decades about how McLean residents have so much of their identity and self worth tied up in their glaringly mediocre zip code.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parts of McLean have been an eye sore for multiple decades. You’re just now noticing it. It’s an area with an undeserved reputation. It’s slightly nicer Springfield with pockets of incredible wealth.

Laughing at the idea that some rando on this forum thinks they’re the arbiter of an area’s reputation. Maybe you can get the WSJ to issue a retraction but I doubt it.

I’ve laughed for decades about how McLean residents have so much of their identity and self worth tied up in their glaringly mediocre zip code.

Feel free to stay in Herndon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parts of McLean have been an eye sore for multiple decades. You’re just now noticing it. It’s an area with an undeserved reputation. It’s slightly nicer Springfield with pockets of incredible wealth.

Laughing at the idea that some rando on this forum thinks they’re the arbiter of an area’s reputation. Maybe you can get the WSJ to issue a retraction but I doubt it.

I’ve laughed for decades about how McLean residents have so much of their identity and self worth tied up in their glaringly mediocre zip code.

Decades? That might explain the senility that accompanies your jealousy.

[Anonymous]

Ha. You McLean peasants are hilarious. You got to McLean and think you’ve actually done something because you live in proximity to a few very wealthy neighborhoods. Imagine living in a 1.5M 3br 1950s split level on a quarter acre and thinking you’re some sort of landed gentry because Chain Bridge Road is in somewhat close proximity. You live in a slightly better located Springfield. Just come to terms with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This isn't a McLean problem, it's all over inside the beltway. We bought in McLean 10 years ago, and I never expected that we'd be shielded from something so common as homeless or panhandlers in the tiny downtown area. I will agree that the number of intersection beggars has increased in that time, but I've seen the same where I work in Arlington, and Falls Church. They just look for high volume intersections.

This is all over outside the Beltway as well. Not just intersections. In past 2 decades we saw the takeover of the Reston library. That's in town center. Stopped buying produce at Harris Teeter and recently saw fingering at Trader Joe's o might not get it there either.

Mclean, Reston, Herndon and points in between pass the products on shelves test - you see baby formula, body wash, and all that stuff. That is a better barometer on areas to live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ha. You McLean peasants are hilarious. You got to McLean and think you’ve actually done something because you live in proximity to a few very wealthy neighborhoods. Imagine living in a 1.5M 3br 1950s split level on a quarter acre and thinking you’re some sort of landed gentry because Chain Bridge Road is in somewhat close proximity. You live in a slightly better located Springfield. Just come to terms with it.

It’s more like a disproportionate share of the wealthy neighborhoods in the DC area are in McLean. It’s getting harder to find even a teardown there now for $1.5M.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A person is so desperate that they are begging for a few dollars in the cold in the street while you live in million dollar homes and drive a warm car and YOU complain? You are vile.

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