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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fellow Missourian with family in Lees Summit and Lenexa.

You are looking in the wrong part of the county. You are going to experience culture shock over there. The house poor aspect will not help either.

Unless that area is ideal for your commute, consider looking towards Burke.  Top notch schools and very warm communities.  You will feel much more at home.

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This is my fear as well. A family in McLean without a high end SUV and without dressing their kids in uggs and north face jackets is going to feel a little out of place. It will only get harder when the kids hit high school. [/quote]

This is more of an issue for other schools in McLean not named Kent Gardens or Haycock.

Spring Hill ES comes to mind (Langley pyramid vice McLean pyramid) which is west of the beltway.

There are many McLean homes inside the beltway that hover around 700K and these homes feed into KG, Chesterbrook, Sherman, Churchill Road, and Haycock.

Most of the uber wealthy in McLean send their kids to private anyway.[/quote]

I wasn't talking about the uber wealthy, I was speaking about our experience at Haycock. It is not only the uber wealthy that drive luxury SUVs and dress their kids in designer clothes around here. It's the upper-middle class. [/quote]

So why is there hype about being upper-middle class?  Northern Virginia (Loudon and FFX) are consistently listed as the wealthiest counties in the US.  There is nothing to brag about being upper middle class when you live in NoVa.

The area that feeds into Haycock (Falls Church), parts of Chesterbrook, and KG is barely upper middle class.

There's nothing special about dressing kids with North Face or Uggs.

Those that want to show off talk about vacations, beach homes, country homes, private school, etc. and they live in $2+ homes.[/quote]

Let's not derail what was otherwise a very helpful thread for the OP. 
The point was just to point out that the outward appearances of a comfortable family in this area may be very different than they would be in another area, not to argue what income level constitutes upper middle class. [/quote]

Yeah, I'm sure people in KC don't wear North Face or Uggs.

They wear Patagonia and Burberry instead.[/quote]

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