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[quote=Anonymous]OP.  I live in McLean and family is in Maryland. Some in Bethesda and some up 270.  Almost all work in Tysons corner.  I sometimes go to Maryland in the morning.  From my family's experience, commuting from McLean to Bethesda in the morning is much better than Maryland to Virginia.  And from Bethesda to Virginia in the evening.  We have discussed why and when it will improve at many a family dinner but it is just the way it is.  From the Tysons exits on 495 it can take my mother over an hour to get to her house in Bethesda in the evening if she tries to leave my house after 4.  OTOH, I take my kids to Bethesda in the morning for various reasons or just to visit grandma and it is 30 minutes with traffic.

As to the schools.  I went to Bethesda public.  They are comparable to McLean public--really splitting hairs to find major differences in the quality of education between McLean and Langley High Schools and Whitman and Churchill.  I would say BCC (in MOCO) is more comparable to Marshall (in FCPS) and Walter Johnson (MOCO) is more comparable to (Madison).  The magnet structures are different.  At the high school level, MCPS has magnet centers within high schools.  In FCPS, the magnet high school is a single school (Thomas Jefferson School for Science and Technology).

Politically, Maryland has always been more liberal.  But it just elected a Republican. Virginia has always trended more republican but it just elected a Democrat.  So there is nothing too different. Both suburbs are generally well educated and upwardly mobile.  I would do some house hunting and dig around about the commutes.  [/quote]

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