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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think it will ever be truly upscale - there are only a few neighborhoods around here that are truly upscale.  It has too many houses at different price points and ages and styles to probably get that descriptor.

Country Club Hills is upscale.  There are a couple of neighborhoods near CCH that are pretty upscale.  Parts of McLean are definitely upscale, but not all of them.  Lyon Village has certain upscale streets and the price tags to match.

Pimmit Hills has gotten a LOT nicer there than when I looked at houses there in 1999, and will continue to get nicer as more of the original houses get torn down and new houses go in.  [/quote]

Actually, most of McLean, while not as "dumpy" as some consider old PH; is of the same era and similar construction as PH. You are paying for the land, unless you have a new house, just like PH.  There is not as much of a difference as some would lead you to believe. [/quote]

That's just about completely wrong.  One of the things that will continue to make McLean more expensive than PH is the fact that the older homes are nicer and the contrast between the old and new homes is not as stark as in Pimmit Hills.  And much of McLean was developed well after all the PH homes were built in the mid-1950s.

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You must not be familiar with actual old McLean homes.  They are nicer than PH in that they are mostly brick, but they are the same dumpy ramblers. The contrast between them and new builds is rather stark.  What McLean has and PH lacks is the quantity of intermediate-build homes - split levels and other 70-s and 80s construction houses, often 2 or 3 stories, and completely livable. PH tends to be either old shacks or very new builds, with a quantity of original houses with additions.  [/quote]

PP here.  The other poster sounds like a paranoid old timer McLean person, afraid of getting priced out soon!  Ignore.

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No, I'm just being accurate about the difference between the two areas.  I know that's a problem for you.  Getting priced out of Pimmit Hills, now or in the future, isn't something that worries me.

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I was not referring to PH, I was referring to McLean.  But now you have me convinced it is indeed both.  :) [/quote]

No, I'm not one of your mythological older McLean residents freaking out about their property taxes, either.

I just know the housing mix in Pimmit Hills, McLean and Vienna is quite different.   You can drive through the neighborhoods, and look at ACS data, and the differences are quite obvious.

It is what it is.   If being squarely in the middle mattered that much, they could have taken their money elsewhere and bought larger houses with longer commutes, lower-rated schools, etc.  [/quote]

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