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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up on Long Island and lived in Manhattan before moving to the DC area.

I think Mclean is like Manhasset/Great Neck. Potomac may be Greenwich. Arlington may be Brooklyn except with good public schools. I know recently Brooklyn has gotten very expensive and desirable.[/quote]

I'm from Great Neck. Potomac is the most like Great Neck, partially because that's where many people from Great Neck wind up. There's even a temple row. However, Potomac doesn't have something like the Middle Neck road, and there's nothing really like Northern Boulevard.

Simply, down here doesn't have the same mix of very big money mixed right in with European-ethnic middle class that dots most of Long Island. You don't have blue and white collar workers living side by side. Far more people have their heads up their you-know-whats in the DC suburbs.  Close-in NYC suburbs don't have white-bread, "Christian/Bible church" culture, no white Baptists, etc. Unless you are old-school, mainline Protestant, you are no more than two or three generations removed from Ellis Island or other  immigration channel. That just gives a totally different vibe. [/quote]

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