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https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/viennatownvirginia/PST045221

Median HHI in Vienna is $168k while HHI in Bethesda is $172k. It is really absurd to claim Vienna is significantly less wealthy than Bethesda.  [/quote]

You're cherry-picking the data in a laughably transparent way.   Per the Census Bureau data you linked, the per capita (not HHI) income in Bethesda is $100K compared to $77K in Vienna.   The median home value in Bethesda is $928K compared to $778K in Vienna.    The percentage of the adult (25+) population with bachelors or higher degrees is 87% in Bethesda compared to 69% in Vienna. Those are material differences.   Within Virginia, McLean's figures are closer than Vienna's to Bethesda's, as others have noted.

The other issue is that the Census Bureau data for Bethesda is for the entire Census-Designated Place (CDP) of 68K people, whereas for Vienna it's only for the Town of Vienna, of 16K people, and excludes the Oakton and Dunn Loring CDPs which contain a lot of Vienna addresses and real estate.   And the income, wealth and education data for those two other CDPs are in some instances (even) lower than the Town of Vienna.

That doesn't mean Vienna is a slum, or that some people might not reasonably prefer Vienna to Bethesda.   But extravagant claims that it's as wealthy as Bethesda, which is now one of the wealthiest suburbs in the entire metro area, are just silly and honestly misleading for the OP.   
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