Yet Another Elite Year Gone By: Our Annual Look at What's Hot and What's Not for 2018

You know, this photo is a half-decade old, but it still seems to capture the perpetual, um, zeitgeist that was living in our plastic fantastic planned community in 2017. So once again, we're offering our annual, totally original What's Hot/What's Not list for 2018. Brace yourself for paid parking jokes and the inevitable sense of giant mauvescrapers crowding us in, yet take consolation in an arbitrary numerical ranking that places us incrementally higher than the particleboard hellscape just to our west. Happy New Year!

OUT	IN
Sweet 80s landmarks	Wegmans, maybe, eventually
Our Russian overlords	Our zoning overlords
Hating on 'Hate' signs	Civil discourse
Developmentsplaining	Eerie empty mauvescrapers
Being 1 better than Ashburn	X-rated parks
Il Fornaio at RTC Bebe at RTC Ann Taylor at RTC Appalachian Spring at RTC Teavana at RTC M&S Grill at RTC The other M&S at RTC Neyla at RTC	Um, er, an elite selfie experience?
Exciting viral videos	Sponsored content (at v. v. reasonable rates!)
Worrying about seemingly inevitable redevelopment of Reston National Golf Course	Worrying about seemingly inevitable redevelopment of Hidden Creek Golf Course
"We can't stop development waiting for roads to be built."	Waiting in endless traffic for roads to be built
Overcrowding public hearings ironically	Organized opposition to arbitrary proposals, maybe
Elite butterflies	Commonplace immobilizers

SAME.