I keep hearing from a friend that "Mclean and Great Falls are so much more classy and prestigous than Clifton"

I find that to be a ridicilous statement. Am I wrong?

Yes, you are wrong.

Clifton is for people who can't afford Great Falls. And rednecks with some money who want a bigger yard and more woods than they can get in McLean.

Persia hasn't existed since 1935 when it became Iran.

The Persians are in McLean, not Great Falls. They don't make it much past Towlston Road. Too far from the Galleria.

All of these areas are nice, but people choose between the areas based on commute. That said, I think McLean is laid out better- nicer roads, parks, properties in general. A lot of Clifton is inconvenient and the roads seem more dangerous.

Well there are houses in clifton in the $15 million plus price range.... not sure about great falls..

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> Well there are houses in clifton in the $15
> million plus price range.... not sure about great
> falls..


There are plenty of houses in Mclean and Great Falls in the 25+ million range!


http://www.theearlofrealestate.com/idx/mls-fx7897523-7201_dulany_dr_mclean_va_22101


http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/foreclosure-auction-is-off-for-23-million-mclean-mansion/2012/09/26/9154aaec-081e-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_story.html

Great Falls is wonderful. I would not live anywhere else. My family has been here for a few generations.

Without question McLean & Great Falls are more prestigous than Clifton.
Proximately to DC is the difference.

Clifton hasn't gone through the removal of $1MM homes to build $10MM homes stage yet either.

Hugs

IMHO Oakton is best locale in Fairfax County. Centrally located, country feel, good/balanced schools, and less expensive than McLean.

Who uses the most toilet paper?

Coming from a poverty background, I am not comfortable with more than a dollop of "prestige" and don't think it does kids any favors. Safe, but not over the top neighborhoods with people who generally have to work hard for what they get make a lot of sense in terms of picking up work and life habits. I am not sure Oakton entirely fits that bill, but it is one of the best approximations of these factors in the area. Moreover, this prestige stuff is often for the birds. It makes more sense to have a 15 year mortgage locked down and paid for than to live in a McMansion with a highly leveraged long term debt instrument. Makes sense to have no college debt for you or your kids as well, meaning that the financial obligations are over and done with when they finish. Ditto for car payments too - yes - a necessary evil - but there is no real need to spend more than 25k on a car. I will take all of these over living in "prestige". In then end, when you go to sleep at night, all you need is a safe roof over your head. Lots of places fit that bill.

I'd pick McLean over Oakton any day. Kids in Oakton have as much money as kids in McLean, if not more, but they are stranded in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do except get high and pretend they are gangsters. McLean is at least close to civilization.

Clifton is too close to Manassas to be part of this discussion.

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> I'd pick McLean over Oakton any day. Kids in
> Oakton have as much money as kids in McLean, if
> not more, but they are stranded in the middle of
> nowhere with nothing to do except get high and
> pretend they are gangsters. McLean is at least
> close to civilization.
>
> Clifton is too close to Manassas to be part of
> this discussion.

And your choice of toilet paper?

ok, here's the deal. If you live behind walls ande dont give a fuck about your neighbors (as human beings, I mean), and only care about appearance and making ppl think your shit dont stink, then yeah, Great Falls is your place.
Cliftonite are snotty richie-riches too but the slight difference is that those ppl actually talk to their neighbors and they occasionallyu hang out with one another from time to time. So if you want more human connection, then Clifton's better for you.

McLean? It kinda depends on WHERE in McLean you are. Lots of it looks pretty much same as Gainesville so I'm not too sure why it's even in the discussion................

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> McLean? It kinda depends on WHERE in McLean you
> are. Lots of it looks pretty much same as
> Gainesville so I'm not too sure why it's even in
> the discussion................


McLean looks like Gainesville? Last time I checked Gainesville didn't have a Tyson's Corner. Gainesville has farms, McLean doesn't. McLean has Tyson's, CIA, the Potomac River. Gainesville doesn't.

1) Tysons is it's own place NOT in McLean, k
2) Drive down Buena Vista Ave, Old Chesterbrook Rd or Churchhill Rd - older 70's houses. I just picked Gainesville out my ass but could have said Annandale, Lorton or just about anyplace. Not ALL of McLean is richie-rich like most of Clifton and Great Falls is. McLean is way more a normal place.
3) McLean doesnt? .............. Dumbass. http://1771.org/
4) CIA is in Langley, not McLean.
5) River actually is in Langley and Great Falls. Christ, do you even KNOW the area or are you just fucking Rand McNally and getting yr info secondhand?

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> 1) Tysons is it's own place NOT in McLean, k
>

Everything north of rte 7 is McLean.


2) Drive down Buena Vista Ave, Old Chesterbrook
> Rd or Churchhill Rd - older 70's houses. I just
> picked Gainesville out my ass but could have said
> Annandale, Lorton or just about anyplace. Not ALL
> of McLean is richie-rich like most of Clifton and
> Great Falls is. McLean is way more a normal
> place.
> 3) McLean doesnt? .............. Dumbass.
> http://1771.org/.


That's a National Park, asshole.


> 4) CIA is in Langley, not McLean.


It's in McLean. The CIA is the only place with a Langley address.


> 5) River actually is in Langley and Great Falls.
> Christ, do you even KNOW the area or are you just
> fucking Rand McNally and getting yr info
> secondhand?


Go down 123 towards Chain Bridge. After the Parkway, that's McLean next to the Potomac.




You are a fucking idiot.

Langley is an unincorporated community in the census-designated place of McLean in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

The community was essentially absorbed into McLean many years ago, although there is still a Langley High School.

Gordon Retard Wrote:
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> > 1) Tysons is it's own place NOT in McLean, k
> >
>
> Everything north of rte 7 is McLean.
>
>
> 2) Drive down Buena Vista Ave, Old Chesterbrook
> > Rd or Churchhill Rd - older 70's houses. I
> just
> > picked Gainesville out my ass but could have
> said
> > Annandale, Lorton or just about anyplace. Not
> ALL
> > of McLean is richie-rich like most of Clifton
> and
> > Great Falls is. McLean is way more a normal
> > place.
> > 3) McLean doesnt? .............. Dumbass.
> > http://1771.org/.
>
>
> That's a National Park, asshole.
>
>
> > 4) CIA is in Langley, not McLean.
>
>
> It's in McLean. The CIA is the only place with a
> Langley address.
>
>
> > 5) River actually is in Langley and Great Falls.
>
> > Christ, do you even KNOW the area or are you
> just
> > fucking Rand McNally and getting yr info
> > secondhand?
>
>
> Go down 123 towards Chain Bridge. After the
> Parkway, that's McLean next to the Potomac.
>
>
>
>
> You are a fucking idiot.

So where can you purchase the best grass and toilet paper?

@there is no Langley - so McLean (unincorporated) took over Langley? Let's see the paperwork on that one LoLz
@Retard:
1) not everything north of 7 is McLean unless you see the world thru Zip Code lines LoLz - Mantua may have a Annandale PO but it's still Fairfax. Franconia aint in Alexandria and no matter what the post office thinks Oak Hill is not a real place LoLz. But whateves - think what you want. Great Falls and Dranesville are all McLean LoLz

2) so a park cant also be a farm? What are you, stupid? It's not even the only one in the area - http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/fryingpanpark/

3) you got me on the whole "other side of the Parkway" deal - but like I said in my ORIGINAL POST: It kinda depends on WHERE in McLean you are. That chunk of McLean is pretty sweet to live in. Beats Great Falls by a mile. But that's not the majority of McLean by a long shot.



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Ok, Paperwork accepted - I acquiesce LoLz.

I always considered the Pike to be it's own little world, and everything from the Exxon at the end of Kirby on 123 to about the hill going up toward the Beltway on the Pike and everything north to be "Langley". If that's wrong, so be it (I reckon it's really up to the ppl who live there LoLz)

But anyways, it just goes to my point that not off of McLean is the same. ANd if ppl feel that everything North of 7 is McLean............................well you just drive down Pimmit Drive and tell me which is better vs Clifton and Great Falls, k? LoLz

Gordon Blvd Wrote:
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> Ok, Paperwork accepted - I acquiesce LoLz.
>
> I always considered the Pike to be it's own little
> world, and everything from the Exxon at the end of
> Kirby on 123 to about the hill going up toward the
> Beltway on the Pike and everything north to be
> "Langley". If that's wrong, so be it (I reckon
> it's really up to the ppl who live there LoLz)
>
> But anyways, it just goes to my point that not off
> of McLean is the same. ANd if ppl feel that
> everything North of 7 is
> McLean............................well you just
> drive down Pimmit Drive and tell me which is
> better vs Clifton and Great Falls, k? LoLz



Pimmit Hills is in Falls Church, idiot. The North of Rte 7 comment was in reference to the Tysons area that is in McLean.
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I prefer Clifton. Small town, country kind of feel to it. Lilly white. Mostly friendly, humble people. Good sense of community spirit. Easy to get in and out of in pretty much any direction using back roads. I have no desire or need to spend time in DC or Tysons - so lack of proximity to both shit holes doesn't bother me.

McLean is a pretentious wear your wealth on your sleeve, nose in the air, cultural melting pot freak show, and it's a traffic cluster fuck. Sure you can get to DC and Tysons fairly quickly - but who wants to?

Great Falls is another pretentious wear your wealth on your sleeve, cultural melting pot freak show. A real bitch to get in and out of.

@Felch - yeah, you got it. That's TOTALLY the difference between the 3. I will say that McLean has a lot of regular, normal ppl living in it, though. Also will say that 5-6 in the afternoon, it's not like Clifton Rd is not exactly a lovefest of flowers and sunshine either LoLz

@Damn - Um, I never said Pimmit Hills, I said Pimmit Drive, which is pretty much as close to downtown McLean as Lewinsville Rd. (funny you say it's "in" Falls Chruch when in all actuality, although it's in a Falls Chruch zip code, is closer to McLean than it is Falls Church...but I digress) It has to do with the whole ORIGINAL point of topic (the one which your butthurt attitude over my view of McLean has blinded you too LoLz) that the area has MANY different styles to it.

Anywho, yr right - I cant understand yr stupidity - Sorry you didnt clarify yr statements about about north of rt 7 enough earlier. Cant argue with someone who lives and breathes like a postal computer and is incapable of seeing the real life geography. If you see the International Drive as being "in McLean" then you go right ahead and do that. The rest of us will realize that there's more to life than a postal computer, that everything south of the Toll Rd and between 7 and Magarity is Tysons Corner, and that Real McLean doesnt start till you get to the bottom of the Freedom Hill that Tysons sits on top off. Well, Dunn Loring does occupy the same hill south of Tysons, but that's a whole other story LoLz



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> @Damn - Um, I never said Pimmit Hills, I said
> Pimmit Drive, which is much closer to downtown
> McLean than Lewinsville Rd.


Pimmit Drive is in Pimmit Hills, which, regardless of it's proximity to McLean, is in Falls Church. Quit smoking whatever you're smoking these days.

8 in the morning trolling Gordon Blvd

life must be good for you LoLz

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> life must be good for you LoLz
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Says the douche who edited his post twice ( 10 minutes later)!



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Gordon Blvd - You're right about Clifton Road btwn 5-6. Easily avoided using back roads. Most of those cars contain Manassholes coming through Clifton. If we blow the bridge over the reservoir that can be fixed.

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> Gordon Blvd - You're right about Clifton Road btwn
> 5-6. Easily avoided using back roads. Most of
> those cars contain Manassholes coming through
> Clifton. If we blow the bridge over the reservoir
> that can be fixed.

Clifton = East Mannassas

Gordon Blvd is a fucking idiot. Langley is a neighborhood in McLean, as is Chesterbrook and Lewinsville. Go tell someone you live in Langley and they will look at you like you're crazy!

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> 1) Tysons is it's own place NOT in McLean, k

Tysons is part McLean and part Vienna. The Post Office in Tysons on Spring Hill Road is the 'West McLean' PO. USA Today uses 'McLean' as the dateline for stories coming from reporters on Jones Branch Drive.

The Post Office last year approved the use of 'Tysons Corner' for 22182 and 22102.

The answer is easier than the question...Both suck!

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> The answer is easier than the question...Both
> suck!


All of Fairfax sucks...that's why we are on the Underground!

Gordon Retard Wrote:
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> Gordon Blvd is a fucking idiot. Langley is a
> neighborhood in McLean, as is Chesterbrook and
> Lewinsville. Go tell someone you live in Langley
> and they will look at you like you're crazy!


Gordo is an Asian chick from Lorton.

She is unworthy of your time or concern.

@Taint - too true - so wrong, yet so right LoLz
@Fairfax : +1
@Two Pence - no, all three :)
@geo bee - well, like I said earlier in the post - I cant argue with you if you see life like a postal computer LoLz
@Retard - you know you only WISH you lived there LoLz

...yawns.

We consider ourselves to be in Mclean, even though the physical address is provided as Langley. Deal with it.


What a silly post by the OP. Clearly, Great Falls is better. Clifton has nice areas, but it will never amount to Great Falls. My commute is great as well. I can't imagine a commute from Clifton to any respectable place of employment is good.

@Z - youre late to the party............already dealt with LoLz