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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Bethesda and have lived in Arlington, DC and back to Bethesda. You could not pay me to move back to VA, regardless of the tax benefit. Weird vibe. It's like they all try to prove something and many are transplants. Many of my neighbors work in Tysons, McLean or Arlington and still decide to live in Bethesda..myself included.

There are nice benefits - great trails, parks, etc but for whatever reason, it just feels stale and transitory compared to Bethesda. [/quote]
seems to be new money strivers vs old wealth [/quote]

Hard to believe Bethesda is old wealth, or it wouldn't have such a reputation, even among people in its own state, for obnoxious residents flaunting their money.

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Most homes are modest in Bethesda/CC, expensive, but not over the top. There are some flashy neighborhoods but most homes on River Rd/Mass Ave corridor are quite modest.

lI would say Great Falls and Potomac is more the "flaunt it" type. [/quote]
+1 historically, Bethesda (and Chevy Chase) is where the old money lived.  The wealthy in NoVA is much more recent relative to Bethesda area.

A lot of jobs have moved over to NoVa area, so you have more transplants there. The median age in Arlington is younger than the median age in Bethesda (and Chevy Chase).[/quote]

DC is not really an old money town.  Old money is generational wealth passed down from business tycoons like the DuPonts or the Mellons.

It is true that the MoCo suburbs were the wealthiest in the area for many years.  However, NoVa has been outpacing MoCo economically for many decades, so the "old money" in MoCo isn't so much generational wealth as much as just more old people with (or who had) money.  Because more younger people who are affluent now live in NoVa, it's "new money" compared to MoCo, but it's still not the type of divide you might find in other parts of the country.

Bethesda and CC have some very pretty neighborhoods.  But you couldn't pay me to live there now, because they are part of a county that has been declining for a long time and stands to continue to do so. [/quote]
umm ok, MoCo has more older money people, and NoVa has strivers/new money.[/quote]

It's true people making lots of money now generally avoid MoCo, but you don't know the difference between "old money" and some 85-year-old schmuck in Potomac who owned a car dealership and whose father was a grocer in Brooklyn.  [/quote]

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