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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Life in 2025 is very normal in my McLean neighborhood, very similar to last year.[/quote]

Congrats on your insulation, I guess? I don’t even live in the DC area—I’m about three hours away—but I was at a sports competition for my kid recently and overheard conversations among parents from a NoVa team about widespread layoffs among their neighborhood friends.[/quote]

The vast majority of people who live in McLean have a lot of $$$ to weather the bad economy.   It is what it is.[/quote]

Plenty of negatively impacted federal workers/fed contractors/fed adjacents in McLean.  Unfortunately the PP doesn't understand that their anecdote are not actual data.[/quote]

PP here.  Maybe so; however, my neighborhood is Mackall Farms Ln in McLean, and life is the same in 2025, just like last year.  [/quote]

You post so often that you can easily be profiled.

You claim to be Asian-American and to have gone to Justice HS before you struck it rich and moved to one of the most expensive parts of the Langley HS district.

You claim to allow your relatives in Falls Church to claim they live at your house so they can attend Langley HS.

You lie squarely at the intersection of possible troll and over-the-top nouveau riche. McLean has plenty of the latter, so you get away with stuff that would get other posts deleted.

Of course you'd claim you and your neighbors are unaffected by federal spending cuts.  You're only affected by the reactions you get to your posts on DCUM. [/quote]
People can lie or not acknowledge life outside their own bubble, but either way anecdotes are not data.  There is no way McLean is unscathed (as recent events at the McLean community center for fired federal workers show), and Fairfax county data shows otherwise. [/quote]

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