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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]McLean is too far and too white, which is what some people want.

I’ve lived in both. Most recently in the Westover area of Arlington. It’s the best of the best. [/quote]

What makes it so for you? Tell me more. [/quote]

I'm not the pp, but apparently the pps neighbor (hi fellow happy neighbor!), and haven't lived in Mclean but will share my perspective.

What I love about where I live:

It feels like the best of every world -

Small town feel - on Sunday mornings when I walk to the farmers market year round, or on Saturday afternoons in the summer when I walk up with my son to get ice cream and go to the library, it feels like the best little small town. Or even when I go on an afternoon after school gets out and the stores are a mad house because all the middle schoolers have landed, walking from Swanson after school. It's crazy then - but I love it because that's what I want for my kid - to run around after school with his friends. There is an independent hardware store that has been owned for decades next to a small beer garden. Not to mention the delicious lebanese place across the street or pizza/sandwiches at Italian store or Lost Dog. It has everything you need.

City feel just a jog away - If I want to be in the city, it took us 12 minutes to drive and park to take my son to a museum downtown two Saturdays ago. Ballston and Clarendon are obviously not the same as the city, but a hop away for a different feel (sometimes we walk to Ballston on the trails on a Saturday morning, though not often - biking is better)

The housing is really pretty dense, the lots small. I really like this for a few reasons - you see your neighbors regularly and can't help but interact, the housing stock is really varied - some are very small homes like ours (2 bedroom) and some have additions making them larger, but still retaining some unique charm. Due to the varied housing and some smaller homes my street has a variety of family makeups and some variety in income (this has it's limitations anywhere in Arlington before people flame me. But my street ranges from government workers, tech, to two families who own their own businesses in an area similar to handyman, for example). I also like that the housing stock is varied in the neighborhood in other ways - affordable housing apartments, townhouses, and a few duplexes. This doesn't mean integration - in my opinion we have a long way to go there, but it's something I do appreciate about the neighborhood vs where I grew up in Arlington that is all SFH. My neighbors are down to earth, I think a bit more so than the farther north arlington neighborhood I'm also familiar with.

So many playgrounds within walking distance and living at basically a trail head for multiple trails four mile run, Wo&D. I can be down walking the trails near a creek in a 5 minute walk.

It's pretty easy to get wherever I want to go.

Life is pretty easy and simple for us there. Anyway - I'm sure most people could list all the reasons they love where they live! So take it all with a grain of salt. But I think it's a special place.
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You’ve captured so much about what I love about the neighborhood! Even the kids who roam in packs and create playful havoc along Washington Blvd. after school. It’s what I wanted for my kids. [/quote]

Yes! Totally agree. It was all on my mind because my husband and I were trying to figure out whether to add onto our house when the time comes or move and it ended in a discussion of all the reasons we couldn't possibly replicate our lives elsewhere and have to find a way to stay :)[/quote]

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