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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arlington is on downslope [/quote]

I agree with you. There are too many people pushing too many things so that nothing is getting done.  Plan Langston Blvd has been pushed aside for Missing Middle Housing which will have limited benefit.  Meanwhile, every corridor is being stuffed with dense housing and CAFs.   We are waiting for our twins to finish fifth grade at one of the elementary schools and then are moving to McLean.   You get more land and house for the money and it is just a nicer group of people.  We also have the option of getting kids into TJ and better middle and high school classes.

Arlington fell for the Amazon deal hook, line, and sinker and now Amazon is laying off people, not sending its top earners to the area, and probably will have a different business model by the time Virginia Tech and George Mason produce all the new grads who are slotted to work for Amazon.  The loss of the commercial and hotel tax base is also showing up in higher property taxes.

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As someone who grew up in McLean and now lives in Arlington, DISAGREE. McLean is not somewhere I’d want to live now. [/quote]

Why not? Genuinely curious. Actually, selfishly asking so I feel better not living there. [/quote] NP - my random thoughts
I have lived here for 25+ years.  I live in the El Nido neighborhood that matriculates to Chesterbrook.  Schools were fine (if you have a hard to teach child it is hard work to get them what they need)- we had the best experience at the HS and my children were extremely well prepared for college- especially in math and science. Commute options are great.   The traffic is starting to build again.  The tear downs are getting silly- they are now around the $3m and up and are larger and larger.  The teardown houses are now $1.4.  Personally, I like a medium sized well designed house (2000-3000sqft).   When my children went through the school system, it was dual income couples that worked for the government or similar, lawyers, and a few doctors and dentists.  There were plenty of families that had one spouse who worked part time.  Now the government and similar couples are priced out - I expect it has changed the nature of the schools. People always complain about class sizes and they have always been too large.  In ES, my children’s ranged from 25 in the good years to 34 ( worst year ).

We have a few restaurants we like, but could use a few more as long as they are not pizza places.  I like that we have a few walks that get us to trails in the “forest” along Pimmit Run.  Old Chesterbrook needs to have sidewalks added between Birch and the bridge over Pimmit Run.

There is an area that matriculates to Kent Garden, Longfellow and McLean that is walking to all three and is walking to downtown McLean.  I think that would also be a great place to be.  Kent Gardens is more crowded than Chesterbrook, though.

Some neighborhoods have the occasional block party, others have nothing.  It mainly depends on if there is an organizer in the neighborhood and that changes from time to time.

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Which neighborhoods are “an area that matriculates to Kent Garden, Longfellow and McLean that is walking to all three and is walking to downtown McLean”? [/quote]

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