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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look OP (if your still even listening to all this bickering), both Mclean and Vienna are fine places to live and they both have great schools.  I  responded to the underlined post to show another side- that having money does not always mean one would automatically choose Mclean over Vienna.  Not sure why the whole humbleness BS got thrown in after that, but this is DCUM and juvenile cattiness over rational discussion is to be expected.

If you do a search for "Mclean vs Vienna" you'll probably find more posts that turn into this same type of bickering.

My suggestion to you would be to take what you want from this post ( the mclean "voices" vs the vienna "voices) and also just go into both of the towns and walk around, have lunch somewhere and strike up a conversation with the residents.  It's the best way to get non-catty advice from the locals.

Good luck with your decision!

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FWIW, I'm the poster who's lived in both Vienna and McLean and thinks each has its pros and cons.  I can definitely see how some people who could afford either would pick Vienna - McLean works best for us due to commutes and I do not miss the Vienna traffic, but I miss other things about it.

I did think it was silly when one or more of the Vienna posters claimed that Vienna - one of the area's wealthiest suburbs - is somehow more "down to earth" than McLean and less likely to have people who want to "keep up with the Joneses."  I tend to think that's language that people use whenever they are, in fact, comparing themselves to others.   But at the end of the day, I think that the efforts by a different poster to hijack the thread to try and "debunk" that notion is a colossal waste of time.  Bottom line is that the OP should consider herself lucky if her family could afford either location.  [/quote]

The goal of this mom's 1.5 million house is akin to a wanna be big fish in a small humble Vienna pond.[/quote]

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