Millennials aren't going to buy your ugly mcmansions, silly Boomers!

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Anonymous wrote:Oh they will, just not yet. Still too young.

This - obviously - once they stop taking pictures of their food, have a kid and find it harder to go to Iceland for the weekend, they will want what everyone wants. Space and easy access (by car) to the things they need. Walking to meet friends for sushi will be replace by putting the sleeping baby in the car seat and finding a drive through Starbucks.

Matter of time. I am perfectly happy in my house for the next 20 years - I can wait.

36 year old Millennial here. I don't want your McMansion. Not eve a little. I don't want poor design, crap materials, a probable long commute, suburbs with amenities only accessible by driving, or the more conservative politics. I'd like more space for my three (already existing) kids, but I'm not buying a trailer on steroids to satisfy that desire, especially when I'm 56.

Also, I cook 90% of our meals at home. I've taken zero pictures of them.

This. Another millennial. I don't want to spend hours a week in my car. It's already challenging to juggle kids and a job without sitting in traffic for two hours a day. It's also hard to stay in shape and sitting in an office and then a car doesn't help. I couldn't care less about walking to get sushi. I don't want a lengthy commute and many others don't as well.

Good luck with your charter schools!

We are zoned for a good elementary school, decent middle and will send to boarding school for high school. We only plan on staying here another 5-10 years or so anyway.

Why the need to try and cut me down because I picked a home in DC that doesn't require a lengthy commute?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh they will, just not yet. Still too young.

This - obviously - once they stop taking pictures of their food, have a kid and find it harder to go to Iceland for the weekend, they will want what everyone wants. Space and easy access (by car) to the things they need. Walking to meet friends for sushi will be replace by putting the sleeping baby in the car seat and finding a drive through Starbucks.

Matter of time. I am perfectly happy in my house for the next 20 years - I can wait.

Urghhh.

I'm a millenial. I can safely say that a drive-through Starbucks is NEVER what I would want. I have 2 kids and we live in Adams Morgan in a rowhouse. I am perfectly happy in my house for the next 20 years too.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh they will, just not yet. Still too young.

This - obviously - once they stop taking pictures of their food, have a kid and find it harder to go to Iceland for the weekend, they will want what everyone wants. Space and easy access (by car) to the things they need. Walking to meet friends for sushi will be replace by putting the sleeping baby in the car seat and finding a drive through Starbucks.

Matter of time. I am perfectly happy in my house for the next 20 years - I can wait.

36 year old Millennial here. I don't want your McMansion. Not eve a little. I don't want poor design, crap materials, a probable long commute, suburbs with amenities only accessible by driving, or the more conservative politics. I'd like more space for my three (already existing) kids, but I'm not buying a trailer on steroids to satisfy that desire, especially when I'm 56.

Also, I cook 90% of our meals at home. I've taken zero pictures of them.

This. Another millennial. I don't want to spend hours a week in my car. It's already challenging to juggle kids and a job without sitting in traffic for two hours a day. It's also hard to stay in shape and sitting in an office and then a car doesn't help. I couldn't care less about walking to get sushi. I don't want a lengthy commute and many others don't as well.

This. Almost millennial here (37). No interest in a long, sedentary commute, a lack of diversity, and the conservative politics that characterized our neighborhood when we briefly lived further out. We ended up buying a SFH in upper NW, which also allowed us more job options--we can have comfortable reverse commutes to MD, or a shorter commute downtown, where I now work. Lots of older millennial families starting to move to our current neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm 34 and have one kid. No more kids for me (can't imagine paying for 2 daycare slots in DC). My little three person family has no need and no desire for a huge house. We make do with our 1 car and 1600 sq ft "shitshack" in a close-in, historic neighborhood with good public schools. DH and I bought this house in 2011, at the tail end of the recession, for less than $300K; now we have about $250K in equity. I think our situation is a lot better than people 5-10 years younger than us.

A lot of my friends have 1 or 2 kids and probably won't have more. I can't think of any that would ever buy a McMansion. We like being able to walk places. But maybe I'll eat my words in 10 years.

It sounds rather sad to me, but to each her own. You do know you don't speak for anyone other yourself and your little circle of friends.

I live in a large home in a suburb, but what exactly was sad about pp's description? It sounds rather nice. To each his own. It doesn't make my own home (which I enjoy very much, despite having to ***gasp*** DRIVE places) less nice.

Why can't you guys just respect other's people's choices. Sheesh.

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason they're not buying those is because they can't afford them.

Which is why they'll eventually be Republicans.

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Anonymous wrote:An interesting factoid - Loudoun only has about 60% of the population of DC, yet has over 20% more kids in the school-age years (5-17).

DCUM can always be counted upon to cough up some people who'll swear how they and all their friends would never live in the outer suburbs, but that is exactly where more of the real moms and dads are.

How does that compare to say, Arlington, though? Which is also not an outer suburb, but is historically more favored by the upper middle class (especially its schools) than DC is? Or say City of Falls Church, where the big complaint is that the planners underestimated how many school kids would be generated by new apartments?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh they will, just not yet. Still too young.

This - obviously - once they stop taking pictures of their food, have a kid and find it harder to go to Iceland for the weekend, they will want what everyone wants. Space and easy access (by car) to the things they need. Walking to meet friends for sushi will be replace by putting the sleeping baby in the car seat and finding a drive through Starbucks.

Matter of time. I am perfectly happy in my house for the next 20 years - I can wait.

36 year old Millennial here. I don't want your McMansion. Not eve a little. I don't want poor design, crap materials, a probable long commute, suburbs with amenities only accessible by driving, or the more conservative politics. I'd like more space for my three (already existing) kids, but I'm not buying a trailer on steroids to satisfy that desire, especially when I'm 56.

Also, I cook 90% of our meals at home. I've taken zero pictures of them.

This. Another millennial. I don't want to spend hours a week in my car. It's already challenging to juggle kids and a job without sitting in traffic for two hours a day. It's also hard to stay in shape and sitting in an office and then a car doesn't help. I couldn't care less about walking to get sushi. I don't want a lengthy commute and many others don't as well.

This. Almost millennial here (37). No interest in a long, sedentary commute, a lack of diversity, and the conservative politics that characterized our neighborhood when we briefly lived further out. We ended up buying a SFH in upper NW, which also allowed us more job options--we can have comfortable reverse commutes to MD, or a shorter commute downtown, where I now work. Lots of older millennial families starting to move to our current neighborhood.

P.S. Similar to another poster, we're zoned for decent school options (Deal/Wilson zone), but may also do local private or boarding for high school. We're almost 10 yrs away from h.s. so we have time to decide.

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8:29 sounds like he/she has it figured out. Then again, I have a similar lifestyle - a 1,500 SF older house in a close-in suburb with good schools, walkable to stuff. Also bought in 2011 and have seen great appreciation. When my kid graduates from HS, I hope to sell it to a family to live in, not to sell to a developer for tear-down.

I think it's a shame that so many decent houses in good price ranges are being torn down, to be replaced by $1.4M giant houses that so few people can afford.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh they will, just not yet. Still too young.

This - obviously - once they stop taking pictures of their food, have a kid and find it harder to go to Iceland for the weekend, they will want what everyone wants. Space and easy access (by car) to the things they need. Walking to meet friends for sushi will be replace by putting the sleeping baby in the car seat and finding a drive through Starbucks.

Matter of time. I am perfectly happy in my house for the next 20 years - I can wait.

36 year old Millennial here. I don't want your McMansion. Not eve a little. I don't want poor design, crap materials, a probable long commute, suburbs with amenities only accessible by driving, or the more conservative politics. I'd like more space for my three (already existing) kids, but I'm not buying a trailer on steroids to satisfy that desire, especially when I'm 56.

Also, I cook 90% of our meals at home. I've taken zero pictures of them.

This. Another millennial. I don't want to spend hours a week in my car. It's already challenging to juggle kids and a job without sitting in traffic for two hours a day. It's also hard to stay in shape and sitting in an office and then a car doesn't help. I couldn't care less about walking to get sushi. I don't want a lengthy commute and many others don't as well.

This. Almost millennial here (37). No interest in a long, sedentary commute, a lack of diversity, and the conservative politics that characterized our neighborhood when we briefly lived further out. We ended up buying a SFH in upper NW, which also allowed us more job options--we can have comfortable reverse commutes to MD, or a shorter commute downtown, where I now work. Lots of older millennial families starting to move to our current neighborhood.

I can't think of a less diverse, monolithic place than Upper NW. Almost all white, almost all Democratic and all very liberal - as long as they can stay zoned for Wilson or get into a snooty private. No thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:8:29 sounds like he/she has it figured out. Then again, I have a similar lifestyle - a 1,500 SF older house in a close-in suburb with good schools, walkable to stuff. Also bought in 2011 and have seen great appreciation. When my kid graduates from HS, I hope to sell it to a family to live in, not to sell to a developer for tear-down.

I think it's a shame that so many decent houses in good price ranges are being torn down, to be replaced by $1.4M giant houses that so few people can afford.

You think all homes should be the same and affordable to everyone? Lowest common denominator housing sounds depressing.

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Nothing is more persuasive than people with kids are preschool or younger saying they have all 12 years of their kids education figured out. Things change, people, things change.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh they will, just not yet. Still too young.

This - obviously - once they stop taking pictures of their food, have a kid and find it harder to go to Iceland for the weekend, they will want what everyone wants. Space and easy access (by car) to the things they need. Walking to meet friends for sushi will be replace by putting the sleeping baby in the car seat and finding a drive through Starbucks.

Matter of time. I am perfectly happy in my house for the next 20 years - I can wait.

36 year old Millennial here. I don't want your McMansion. Not eve a little. I don't want poor design, crap materials, a probable long commute, suburbs with amenities only accessible by driving, or the more conservative politics. I'd like more space for my three (already existing) kids, but I'm not buying a trailer on steroids to satisfy that desire, especially when I'm 56.

Also, I cook 90% of our meals at home. I've taken zero pictures of them.

This. Another millennial. I don't want to spend hours a week in my car. It's already challenging to juggle kids and a job without sitting in traffic for two hours a day. It's also hard to stay in shape and sitting in an office and then a car doesn't help. I couldn't care less about walking to get sushi. I don't want a lengthy commute and many others don't as well.

This. Almost millennial here (37). No interest in a long, sedentary commute, a lack of diversity, and the conservative politics that characterized our neighborhood when we briefly lived further out. We ended up buying a SFH in upper NW, which also allowed us more job options--we can have comfortable reverse commutes to MD, or a shorter commute downtown, where I now work. Lots of older millennial families starting to move to our current neighborhood.

I can't think of a less diverse, monolithic place than Upper NW. Almost all white, almost all Democratic and all very liberal - as long as they can stay zoned for Wilson or get into a snooty private. No thanks.

PP here. We are actually EOTP upper NW. Super diverse, friendly neighborhood--white, black, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, DC natives, immigrants, you name it. Much more diverse than our former MoCo ("W" district" neighborhood. People there were nice enough, but no families with young kids, which is another reason we moved.

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I'm a Gen Xer and I lived in a townhouse/apt/small older sfh way before it was cool to do so. I also saw the value in being close to work, shopping and not having to deal with the hassles of a commute.

But now I'm living in a big house in the suburbs and I LOVE the space. I love the quieter neighborhood. I don't mind planning my shopping trips. I love my big sprawling yard.

You don't have to buy my house, I ain't sellin'.

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I love all of the stereotypes of an entire generation of different people.

-35 year old millenial living in a 2500 sqft house close-in to DC who hates facebook/snapchat/twitter.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh they will, just not yet. Still too young.

This - obviously - once they stop taking pictures of their food, have a kid and find it harder to go to Iceland for the weekend, they will want what everyone wants. Space and easy access (by car) to the things they need. Walking to meet friends for sushi will be replace by putting the sleeping baby in the car seat and finding a drive through Starbucks.

Matter of time. I am perfectly happy in my house for the next 20 years - I can wait.

36 year old Millennial here. I don't want your McMansion. Not eve a little. I don't want poor design, crap materials, a probable long commute, suburbs with amenities only accessible by driving, or the more conservative politics. I'd like more space for my three (already existing) kids, but I'm not buying a trailer on steroids to satisfy that desire, especially when I'm 56.

Also, I cook 90% of our meals at home. I've taken zero pictures of them.

36 is Gen X, babe.