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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BTDT. West McLean and Hamlet are spot on.  The best communities with true community feel (not just "on paper", so to speak).

There are other communities that are thought strongly to be most desirable, but when you actually live there, they are least desirable.  You really need to ask friends who actually reside there.

DO NOT rely on walking to school as your only criteria.  You have been warned.

Come to think of it, if we had to do it all over again, we would drive the extra ten minutes and choose Vienna, hands down.  For what you get for your money, Vienna has a LOT more to offer, and all of my friends in Vienna are consistently happy with their choice.  Unlike our McLean friends.  Seriously, OP.  I wish someone had told us sooner.  Its an expensive mistake to make.

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I've lived in both Vienna and McLean, and think they are both great places to live.  Vienna is less expensive, it has better restaurants, and the population is younger.  The Town of Vienna activities like Viva Vienna are really nice, and Church Street has some great shops.   We also liked being near the W&OD trail, which is great for biking.  However, McLean is a much better commute to DC, there's less traffic congestion and, without deliberately attempting to offend the usual suspects, we think the schools are a notch above the schools in our prior pyramid.  And, perhaps surprisingly, we find our McLean neighborhood to have less of a "keeping up with the Jones vibe," if only because most people in our Vienna neighborhood were roughly the same age, which seems to encourage that type of behavior.   I'm sorry you've had a bad experience, and Vienna might be more up your alley, but I don't think you'll find large numbers of people in McLean wishing they'd picked Vienna, instead.  [/quote]

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