Where do you live and what is the class breakdown?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC. Home prices range from 3.5 to 20 million in the immediate area (closest 10 homes). Middle class. Combo of government workers and retirees.

That sounds lower middle class.

The kind of government worker wasn’t specified. Depending on their jobs this could even be a blue-collar/working class neighborhood.

With 3.5 to TWENTY million dollar houses? Sure. That sounds like a blue-collar/working class neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Vienna. JMHS district. SFHs built in late 1960s, 4 and 5 BR, some with carports or 1 car garages. Recent sales 1.1 million.

Mostly younger professional couples.

UMC?

[Anonymous]

I’m a blue collar worker, making 40k a year power washing houses. Thankfully I have a trust fund so I bought a 5M home in Langley when I turned 18.

[Anonymous]

Falls Church near Justice high school, 1950s SFHs that sell for $750k-$900k. Newer owners (us included) are MC/UMC professional couples and young families, mostly everyone else is LMC and very old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a blue collar worker, making 40k a year power washing houses. Thankfully I have a trust fund so I bought a 5M home in Langley when I turned 18.

Yeah right.

[Anonymous]

Live in a neighborhood of 500k-650k sfhs.

Most neighbors are a diverse and typically lower paid, college educated, middle class with mostly current feds and teachers, along with successful hispanic contractors.

[Anonymous]

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^ For example, the family next door inherited the house. They both work in hotels/restaurants. They cannot afford to send their kids to some of the activities that others in the neighborhood can afford. There is a "divide" in this way. They also are not college graduates. We have another family like this on the street and the house is poorly maintained and they are renting out the basement. I don't think some people who buy here realize this and they are a bit shocked once they "see" it. So you never know.

Condolences

[Anonymous]

1960s SFH in Rockville. Most sell for $500-$750k. Pretty ethnically diverse and I’d guess that HHI for most of the newer residents is $160-$300k - but there are lots of people who have been here a long time or inherited their parents homes and make less. A fair number of big Catholic and Jewish families with SAHM and a few houses with multiple families squished in splitting costs, but mostly dual earning homes with folks making average white collar salaries.

[Anonymous]

I’m a blue collar worker, making 40k a year power washing houses. Thankfully I have a trust fund so I bought a 5M home in Langley when I turned 18.

Good move. Now you can get more customers for your business, overcharge them, and hire employees. Your business will grow exponentially. Add in some lawn mowing and gutter cleaning and get a truck for junk removal. You're on the way to a 10M home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mc are not living in those houses. UMC to UC.

Are you talking about OP’s townhouse example? Are you not from the DC area? I 100% believe it’s a MC neighborhood.

I live in 22205 and houses are $1-1.4. On paper or based on home equity, people may seem well-off, but if anyone from another region was blindfolded and dropped into our neighborhood they would call it middle class. The houses are 1940s colonials with modest additions, the lots are close together and yards are small, 95% of kids go to public school, most driveways have a minivan or a Prius, our “private” pool is a bit run down and shabby, our parks look like they have not been updated in 20 years. The lifestyle is very MC. Rec sports and county camps are the norm. Typical families are 2 feds or a lawyer and a sahm. There are a surprising number of houses in our neighborhood that are rented.

[Anonymous]

North Cleveland Park. SFHs are going for $2mil and up, but there's more diversity in SES with all the apartments on Connecticut Avenue. There are also many older former government employees who bought their homes for $200-300K back in the day. Overall, the neighborhood skews educated, wealthy, and international.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mc are not living in those houses. UMC to UC.

Are you talking about OP’s townhouse example? Are you not from the DC area? I 100% believe it’s a MC neighborhood.

I live in 22205 and houses are $1-1.4. On paper or based on home equity, people may seem well-off, but if anyone from another region was blindfolded and dropped into our neighborhood they would call it middle class. The houses are 1940s colonials with modest additions, the lots are close together and yards are small, 95% of kids go to public school, most driveways have a minivan or a Prius, our “private” pool is a bit run down and shabby, our parks look like they have not been updated in 20 years. The lifestyle is very MC. Rec sports and county camps are the norm. Typical families are 2 feds or a lawyer and a sahm. There are a surprising number of houses in our neighborhood that are rented.

Wrong. Your shabby pool and public schools don't make you Joe Everyman. You have resources and security. True middle class people don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mc are not living in those houses. UMC to UC.

Are you talking about OP’s townhouse example? Are you not from the DC area? I 100% believe it’s a MC neighborhood.

I live in 22205 and houses are $1-1.4. On paper or based on home equity, people may seem well-off, but if anyone from another region was blindfolded and dropped into our neighborhood they would call it middle class. The houses are 1940s colonials with modest additions, the lots are close together and yards are small, 95% of kids go to public school, most driveways have a minivan or a Prius, our “private” pool is a bit run down and shabby, our parks look like they have not been updated in 20 years. The lifestyle is very MC. Rec sports and county camps are the norm. Typical families are 2 feds or a lawyer and a sahm. There are a surprising number of houses in our neighborhood that are rented.

Wrong. Your shabby pool and public schools don't make you Joe Everyman. You have resources and security. True middle class people don't.

+1. Majority of people (ie, the middle class) can’t come up with 1,000 in an emergency.

Also, a Prius is a typical upper middle class car, and a minivan transcends all classes. When I was a kid in the 90s, we had a used Ford Winstar, and my dad made close to 200k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Mc are not living in those houses. UMC to UC.


Are you talking about OP’s townhouse example? Are you not from the DC area? I 100% believe it’s a MC neighborhood.

I live in 22205 and houses are $1-1.4. On paper or based on home equity, people may seem well-off, but if anyone from another region was blindfolded and dropped into our neighborhood they would call it middle class. The houses are 1940s colonials with modest additions, the lots are close together and yards are small, 95% of kids go to public school, most driveways have a minivan or a Prius, our “private” pool is a bit run down and shabby, our parks look like they have not been updated in 20 years. The lifestyle is very MC. Rec sports and county camps are the norm. Typical families are 2 feds or a lawyer and a sahm. There are a surprising number of houses in our neighborhood that are rented.


Wrong. Your shabby pool and public schools don't make you Joe Everyman. You have resources and security. True middle class people don't.

I agree. However, if you look only at the houses and compare to houses in other areas, yes, the people in 22205 are living in the same type of MC houses as others who have "less resources and security", but the difference is that they are paying 1-1.4 for them.

But yes, they have more $$ in the bank.

[Anonymous]

I live in a LMC to UMC neighborhood in Anne Arundel County. Houses range from $350k-$1.5mm (high end is waterfront).