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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So...let's recap.

Arlington: smaller houses, lots, better commute, better walking possibilities

McLean: bigger houses, lots, better schools, worse commute

I'll leave out the bigger question of diversity.  [/quote]
Many of the posts in this thread address diversity. McLean is the better option. N Arlington posters are in denial of their own bias. [/quote]

Hm. I think it's still in the toss-up pile.  Self-proclaimed POCs here prefer McLean. McLean is also more white based on straight demographics.  [/quote]

That comes back to the North/South issue.

McLean is whiter and less diverse than Arlington as a whole, but the whitest parts of NoVa are in North Arlington (the areas that feed into Discovery, Jamestown, McKinley, Nottingham, Taylor and Tuckahoe ES, and Williamsburg MS).

While some might claim the North/South divide is artificial, it was people in Arlington, not McLean, who popularized that distinction, so it must mean something to them.  Route 50 existed long before the residents of the area made “North Arlington” a thing, so it’s clearly intended to get at something besides geography. [/quote]

Arlington is divided because of historical housing patterns based on race and SES. Poor and minority families have lived here - segregated - for many years and, sadly, the effects of segregation are still seen today. Even today, new affordable housing developments are not well distributed across the county.

McLean doesn't have that issue because historically it didn't have a significant # of poor or black/brown residents. Maybe little pocket here or there. But most of "those" people were segregated further south in Fairfax County. Even today there is very little SES diversity. How much affordable housing is there in McLean today? 
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