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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sweet, another excuse to bash McLean thread... aren't you people tired of this?   :roll:

OP.  You'd probably get more thoughtful replies had you said Falls Church City or Vienna or Arlington...

If the NoVa area was the world. McLean would be America.  Loved by many, but despised by far more.[/quote]

OP here. I was not trying to start a controversy. I just had a wonderful childhood with beautiful memories in McLean and the area near Great Falls park. Every weekend my family would go hiking there together. Tysons Corner mall was a small neighborhood only mall safe enough to drop your teens off when you're off running errands. Going to the McDonalds near the McLean Central Park after HS to eat sundaes with your friends. Taking my little sister and her best friend to the Clemijontri park.

We lived in a small modest SFH and were surrounded by lawyers and other feds. It wasn't fancy but it was home.

I can't seem to let go that I will never "go home" again. McLean is my home in this area. Everywhere else feels too far and in the middle of "nowhere."

My Langley classmates who graduated in 2006 are now either in Arlington, Bethesda or Spring Valley. Others are dispersed around the country. DH and I are not in very well paid fields although together we bring in like 280k+. DH runs his own at home consulancy so in a good year we can have a HHI of 400k+. He grew up in Fairfax Station and has a negative impression of McLean along with thinking its too big a mortgage to take on when we can buy a bigger house somewhere in Burke or Herndon for 500k-600k.

I'm just so torn about it.[/quote]

Good grief. If you were taking your sister to Clemyjontri, you're incredibly young--and basically grew up a minute or two ago.  Your statement about Tysons being the only safe mall is wrong.  You're idealizing all kinds of things that are false.  McLean was more middle class years before you were born.  I'd have more sympathy if you said you graduated in '98 or something.  This area has changed dramatically in the past 20-30 yrs, but not that much in the last 10.[/quote]

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