Anonymous
Post 08/24/2021 10:14     Subject: Re:Why is McLean so prestigious?
Anonymous wrote:I have heard /mic leen/


Not from anyone who lives here.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2021 10:14     Subject: Why is McLean so prestigious?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mclean = Potomac, Bethesda = Vienna, Arlington = Silver Spring, Fairfax = Rockville

As someone who has lived in multiple areas of MoCo and NoVa this is my best analogy for prestige and also for the general culture, demographics, and feel of each area.


I think Potomac = great falls, Bethesda = McLean, Silver Spring is more lower than Arlington


CC-MD = McLean; Potomac = Great Falls; Bethesda = Fairfax County


^ this is the closest one. I'd have thought that Bethesda = Arlington, since their downtowns are indistinguishable, both have older houses on small lots near downtown, etc.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2021 10:14     Subject: Why is McLean so prestigious?
Anonymous wrote:https://franciscaalonso.myrealtyonegroup.com/land/brt/vafx2011734/1278-ballantrae-farm-mclean-va-22101?fbclid=IwAR3sJJrvHewJq7Ahll3bS29HOwr38UMmVYXQPrFtxdPtb5rJ1twUfEGtQOM

Vacant lots in McLean are 1.5 million


Teardowns (at least in my neighborhood) are over 2m.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2021 10:13     Subject: Re:Why is McLean so prestigious?
Anonymous wrote:
McLean has the VIPs and the most expensive suburban homes in the DC area along with Chevy Chase. Hate to break that to you.

In any case, you tip your hand by suggesting only one place in the region can be “prestigious.” You must spend a lot of time looking over your shoulder.
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Bethesda is more expensive and prestigious IMO.


Your opinion is irrelevant. Facts and home prices dictate that McLean is more expensive.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2021 10:12     Subject: Re:Why is McLean so prestigious?
Anonymous wrote:
McLean has the VIPs and the most expensive suburban homes in the DC area along with Chevy Chase. Hate to break that to you.

In any case, you tip your hand by suggesting only one place in the region can be “prestigious.” You must spend a lot of time looking over your shoulder.
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Bethesda is more expensive and prestigious IMO.


your opinion doesn't count
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2021 10:07     Subject: Re:Why is McLean so prestigious?
McLean is prestigious because it has the word "lean" in it, which invokes an image that all of the people there are fit, trim, and healthy.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2021 10:06     Subject: Why is McLean so prestigious?
https://franciscaalonso.myrealtyonegroup.com/land/brt/vafx2011734/1278-ballantrae-farm-mclean-va-22101?fbclid=IwAR3sJJrvHewJq7Ahll3bS29HOwr38UMmVYXQPrFtxdPtb5rJ1twUfEGtQOM

Vacant lots in McLean are 1.5 million
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2021 10:06     Subject: Why is McLean so prestigious?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mclean = Potomac, Bethesda = Vienna, Arlington = Silver Spring, Fairfax = Rockville

As someone who has lived in multiple areas of MoCo and NoVa this is my best analogy for prestige and also for the general culture, demographics, and feel of each area.


I think Potomac = great falls, Bethesda = McLean, Silver Spring is more lower than Arlington


CC-MD = McLean; Potomac = Great Falls; Bethesda = Fairfax County
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2021 10:01     Subject: Why is McLean so prestigious?
Anonymous wrote:Mclean = Potomac, Bethesda = Vienna, Arlington = Silver Spring, Fairfax = Rockville

As someone who has lived in multiple areas of MoCo and NoVa this is my best analogy for prestige and also for the general culture, demographics, and feel of each area.


I think Potomac = great falls, Bethesda = McLean, Silver Spring is more lower than Arlington
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2021 09:56     Subject: Why is McLean so prestigious?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Because there are huge showy houses there. JFK started it.


That would be RFK. Jackie’s dad had a house there but JFK never did.

Jackie’s stepdad did. RFK had hickory hill & jfk stayed there for a short period of time


JFK hung out in Potomac
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2021 09:55     Subject: Why is McLean so prestigious?
McDonalds founded it.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2021 09:52     Subject: Why is McLean so prestigious?
Mclean = Potomac, Bethesda = Vienna, Arlington = Silver Spring, Fairfax = Rockville

As someone who has lived in multiple areas of MoCo and NoVa this is my best analogy for prestige and also for the general culture, demographics, and feel of each area.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2021 09:27     Subject: Re:Why is McLean so prestigious?
Anonymous wrote:
McLean has the VIPs and the most expensive suburban homes in the DC area along with Chevy Chase. Hate to break that to you.

In any case, you tip your hand by suggesting only one place in the region can be “prestigious.” You must spend a lot of time looking over your shoulder.
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Bethesda is more expensive and prestigious IMO.


McLean is more expensive; prestige is in the eye of the beholder.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2021 09:22     Subject: Re:Why is McLean so prestigious?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Redlining


This.


No.

McLean is too young. And if McLean benefited, so did just about all of NOVA. But McLean is different, no? And it's plenty diverse even if it's not the woke diversity.

Real world isn't Woke Soc 101.

Anonymous
Post 08/24/2021 08:14     Subject: Re:Why is McLean so prestigious?
McLean has the VIPs and the most expensive suburban homes in the DC area along with Chevy Chase. Hate to break that to you.

In any case, you tip your hand by suggesting only one place in the region can be “prestigious.” You must spend a lot of time looking over your shoulder.
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Bethesda is more expensive and prestigious IMO.