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Arlington, VA
Arlington sits directly across the Potomac River from Washington, and Arlington National Cemetery, established in 1864 on land that once belonged to Robert E. Lee's family, has made the county home to one of the most solemn and frequently visited national landmarks in the entire country, including the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the graves of more than 400,000 veterans and their families. The Pentagon, headquarters of the US Department of Defense and one of the largest office buildings in the world, sits within Arlington's borders as well, giving the county an outsized concentration of federal government and military-adjacent employment relative to its modest geographic size. Arlington's Rosslyn-Ballston corridor, developed deliberately around five Metro stations beginning in the 1970s, is frequently cited by urban planners nationally as one of the most successful examples of transit-oriented development in the United States — a string of dense, walkable mixed-use neighborhoods built specifically to cluster new growth directly around rail stations rather than letting it sprawl outward. Served by the Orange, Blue, and Silver Metro lines running through that same corridor, Arlington's combination of profound national historic and military significance and a genuinely successful, decades-long experiment in transit-oriented urban planning has made it one of the most studied and most livable close-in suburbs anywhere in the country.
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McLean, VA
McLean sits in Fairfax County along the Virginia side of the Potomac, and its proximity to Langley — home to the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters — has given the town an outsized, if largely unspoken, association with the federal intelligence community, alongside a broader concentration of defense contractors and government-adjacent professionals throughout the area. The town's residential character leans heavily toward large, wooded lots and substantial custom-built homes, a legacy of McLean's development as a genuinely upscale, low-density alternative to the more urban close-in suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria, even as it sits within a comparable commuting distance of downtown DC. Tysons Corner Center, one of the largest shopping malls on the East Coast, anchors a broader Tysons commercial district just south of McLean proper that's grown over the past two decades into one of the most significant office and retail employment centers in the entire Washington metro area, extending Metrorail's Silver Line directly into what had long been a purely car-dependent suburban office park. McLean's combination of a discreet but genuine tie to the national intelligence and defense establishment, spacious wooded residential lots, and its position immediately adjacent to the rapidly urbanizing Tysons commercial corridor has made it one of the more distinctive and consistently expensive suburbs in Northern Virginia.
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