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Anonymous wrote:I always notice those driving lower end, cheaper vehicles are far more generous with handouts to beggars vs those driving expensive, luxury vehicles. Rich folk don’t care about beggars even if they came up the poor road.

The same people handing cash to beggars play the lotto and throw more money away. The wealthy know the value of saving and investing. Donations are made in a planned manner. Not to randos on the street.

That’s a weak post.

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Anonymous wrote:I always notice those driving lower end, cheaper vehicles are far more generous with handouts to beggars vs those driving expensive, luxury vehicles. Rich folk don’t care about beggars even if they came up the poor road.

The same people handing cash to beggars play the lotto and throw more money away. The wealthy know the value of saving and investing. Donations are made in a planned manner. Not to randos on the street.

Anonymous wrote:Mclean has never been desirable to those in the know/true wealthy. We own two large properties in that area and rent out to middle eastern/indian families primarily.

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove on old dominion dr through central McLean. There’s a guy walking in the middle of the lanes asking for money. Has McLean been reduced to panhandlers like dc? Can they at least stay on the curb so they don’t cause an accident?

McLean has few panhandlers compared to most of Northern Virginia. The people in McLean are too cheap to hand out cash, so the panhandlers go to poor areas where people are more empathetic.

What a dumb comment. You just sound bitter, guess you're stuck living in one of the poor areas.

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Anonymous wrote:I always notice those driving lower end, cheaper vehicles are far more generous with handouts to beggars vs those driving expensive, luxury vehicles. Rich folk don’t care about beggars even if they came up the poor road.

The same people handing cash to beggars play the lotto and throw more money away. The wealthy know the value of saving and investing. Donations are made in a planned manner. Not to randos on the street.

Anonymous wrote:I always notice those driving lower end, cheaper vehicles are far more generous with handouts to beggars vs those driving expensive, luxury vehicles. Rich folk don’t care about beggars even if they came up the poor road.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think there’s much doubt that McLean will go downhill with the rest of the region. Many jobs will be lost in both the government and private industry, and many will leave the area. A lot of people come here for jobs, but that will change. You can argue whether that’s a good or bad thing in the long run I guess. But if you’re in the market for a house you should wait a couple of years or so and snap up some bargains.

That's one hypothesis. The opposite is just as likely to happen. Things remaining the same is just as likely to happen. In other words, nobody knows. The way it appears now despite the previous messaging: In no way Trump's administration and DOGE and an army of tech billionaires are making it about reducing spending, if anything it's increase in spending. They want to do more, not less. How do you "revamp" stuff without creating extra jobs? and many of these jobs will be in IT/tech sector which isn't the lowest paying compared to Fed jobs being lost. The only way you could be possibly right is if they decide to "shut down" DC altogether and migrate new jobs elsewhere with all the work done remotely. But they want RTO and to fill empty DC DT offices that are paid for but underutilized.

I’ve heard they want to export around 30% of the fed jobs to other states. Plus it seems they will be eliminating many others. Then there will be the loss of people who won’t tolerate the conditions being imposed on them, like ratting on coworkers, RTO and such. The ones who can will find new jobs elsewhere. The ripple effect on other businesses and sectors will be quite significant.

You "heard".. And you also extrapolated to suit whatever you want to believe. In other words, it's an opinion just like all the others.

You don’t believe your victorious candidate? He’s coming for you too, like it or not.

The only things I can hear victorious candidate announce is more spending. Perhaps you are hard of hearing.

I guess you’re not listening to what he has to say then. Don’t blame you really.

he is moving government functions to Mar-a-Lago? and all the fed and related contractor jobs to FL? DC to be renamed as a new Detroit?

Anonymous wrote:Mclean has never been desirable to those in the know/true wealthy. We own two large properties in that area and rent out to middle eastern/indian families primarily.

Anonymous wrote:I always notice those driving lower end, cheaper vehicles are far more generous with handouts to beggars vs those driving expensive, luxury vehicles. Rich folk don’t care about beggars even if they came up the poor road.

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove on old dominion dr through central McLean. There’s a guy walking in the middle of the lanes asking for money. Has McLean been reduced to panhandlers like dc? Can they at least stay on the curb so they don’t cause an accident?

McLean has few panhandlers compared to most of Northern Virginia. The people in McLean are too cheap to hand out cash, so the panhandlers go to poor areas where people are more empathetic.

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Anonymous wrote:You saw one panhandler and you're clutching your pearls. Maybe you need to get out of your bubble more OP.

Literally almost every corner in annadale, (little river turnpike), alexandria, parts of Arlington and fairfax have panhandlers on them. OP come take a drive.

I live in McLean and know that intersection well. There are various different people that panhandle there. It does seem new in the last couple of years. A decade ago I didn’t see people there, or even around Tysons.

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove on old dominion dr through central McLean. There’s a guy walking in the middle of the lanes asking for money. Has McLean been reduced to panhandlers like dc? Can they at least stay on the curb so they don’t cause an accident?

McLean has few panhandlers compared to most of Northern Virginia. The people in McLean are too cheap to hand out cash, so the panhandlers go to poor areas where people are more empathetic.