So tired of the crappy housing stock in the DMV combined with skyrocketing prices

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If all of you are so unhappy here, why do you stay? Why not move to another city or location that's more appealing to you?

You can also update the outside of a house to make it more visually appealing. I don't see many people in this area making the effort.

No you can’t if you are in a HOA. Good luck changing the way your home looks with all the rules around here.

Well duh? Everyone knows that. But most people in the DMV do not live in an HOA community.

17% in Maryland
23% in Virginia

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That’s what you get when homes for poor people in the 1960s become homes for rich people in the 2020s. They were ugly as hell then, built for simple people (plumbers, nurses, teachers) over 50 years ago. They have not aged well, yet now house dual income professionals. Really makes you wonder whether you’ve come out ahead, doesn’t it?

THIS!!! All that junk in Arlington used to be for LMC/LC people. Maybe some Feds w/ a SAHM would buy there. Then they built some bars and restaurants and suddenly dual lawyer families pay a fortune for this crap.

Yep. That’s what happened to places like Arlington in a nutshell. Even back in the 80s and 90s, Arlington wasn’t that expensive. Now it’s 1 million for a shack just because of the land it sits on. It’s sad.

And now people spend $6,000 a month to live like my single social worker mother in the 80s.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m seeing the same. All of the stock is so poor and cheap looking and overpriced for what you get. I don’t want to pay a million for a standard 1990s style colonial with an outdated kitchen but here we are.

Way better than paying a million for a 1950s rancher. I live in a 1990s colonial. It’s wonderful once we fixed the kitchen. The floor plan is really wonderful.

I bought a rancher and don't disagree. Layout is a challenge. But no regrets, I'm otherwise happy. But, yes, I wish I had the choice!

[Anonymous]

My Gardner from Mexico originally when young he lived in crime filled DC in the late 1970s. Around 1981 crime was so bad and he was paying to park his landscaping trucks in lots and still broken into he and wife drive to outer Potomac almost by Darnestown and bought a house on 4 acres!

He moved in parked his trucks in property. He does most of Potomac. I don’t think that would happen today

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That’s what you get when homes for poor people in the 1960s become homes for rich people in the 2020s. They were ugly as hell then, built for simple people (plumbers, nurses, teachers) over 50 years ago. They have not aged well, yet now house dual income professionals. Really makes you wonder whether you’ve come out ahead, doesn’t it?

THIS!!! All that junk in Arlington used to be for LMC/LC people. Maybe some Feds w/ a SAHM would buy there. Then they built some bars and restaurants and suddenly dual lawyer families pay a fortune for this crap.

Yep. That’s what happened to places like Arlington in a nutshell. Even back in the 80s and 90s, Arlington wasn’t that expensive. Now it’s 1 million for a shack just because of the land it sits on. It’s sad.

And now people spend $6,000 a month to live like my single social worker mother in the 80s.

Look at the number of posts in this subforum from people looking for a 4+ bedroom house for their family of three.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If all of you are so unhappy here, why do you stay? Why not move to another city or location that's more appealing to you?

You can also update the outside of a house to make it more visually appealing. I don't see many people in this area making the effort.

No you can’t if you are in a HOA. Good luck changing the way your home looks with all the rules around here.

Well duh? Everyone knows that. But most people in the DMV do not live in an HOA community.

17% in Maryland
23% in Virginia

What’s there to duh about? Many people think they can change their homes into rainbow colors, and that’s not a thing. You can’t even change your front door color in many communities. But most people don’t know this.

[Anonymous]

OMG the houses in DC are awful. The way people live sucks. There were so many houses with structural defects, cracks, visible mold, crickets, rats, mice, asbestos tile, crooked floors, you name it. I get saving a solid stone Victorian but these colonials weren’t built to last 100+ years.

Every time someone builds a nice modern house the whole block loses their minds, that’s if they can push it past the so-called historic commission (which is unqualified to judge).

And the nice new builts are RARE. It’s all a neo-farm house feverish dream nightmares or copy colonials in builder grade. Urgh. They should try filming MDLLA in DC. Wouldn’t last 1 season. Instead of a pool, here’s a lovely crawlspace…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG the houses in DC are awful. The way people live sucks. There were so many houses with structural defects, cracks, visible mold, crickets, rats, mice, asbestos tile, crooked floors, you name it. I get saving a solid stone Victorian but these colonials weren’t built to last 100+ years.

Every time someone builds a nice modern house the whole block loses their minds, that’s if they can push it past the so-called historic commission (which is unqualified to judge).

And the nice new builts are RARE. It’s all a neo-farm house feverish dream nightmares or copy colonials in builder grade. Urgh. They should try filming MDLLA in DC. Wouldn’t last 1 season. Instead of a pool, here’s a lovely crawlspace…

Wtf have you been looking? Try spring valley

[Anonymous]

Comparable areas in the NW, minus nerve gasses