The main thing I got from this thread is there are women who can reach out and touch 40 who believe they're Millennials. That's so cute. |
I am not on either side of this fight, however I would say that - this thread was started in a very condescending fashion by a millenial - you fire a shot and people are going to come back at you - Most of the 'McMansion (lazy word in my opinion) Owners' aren't there because of architecture, that said, some of it is really bad, but if you notice when you swing at the design of their house, they don't defend the house, they defend the lifestyle - There is nothing great about the average infill house or 'shitshack' (another lazy word) - it's not like those people hold the architectural high ground - old and brick doesn't make something great architecture and most of those houses were built on a large scale tract basis as well, they aren't all custom homes If you don't have an unlimited budget you are going to have to make compromises in size, location, design etc - I don't see why it has to be such a vile argument |
Why buy when you're already living in the basement for free? |
Fast forward 20 years from now with Dad dead for 10 years and mom dead for two months, and the three high powered sisters who made something of their lives arrive to boot you out of the basement and each claim their one-quarter of the inheritance. As a real estate agent, I see this often. Mom and Dad do not leave the house to the basement dweller but all of the siblings in equal shares. The 55 year old basement dweller has about $250,000 in house proceeds and little money Mom had left to live for the rest of his meaningless life (yes, it is usually the failure-to-thrive son who lives in the basement). |
making all the money in the world while living in your parents' basement? keep daydreaming! |
+100000 |
Yep. You'll notice this in millennials who have the money to buy a mcmansion if they wanted to. The vast majority are avoiding them like the plague and snapping up historical properties. |
And I think you're sweet to be bothered! Your aging must really get under your skin for a demographic statistic to bother you. - Nearly 40 by your standards, don't care. ![]() |
Lol, hystorical properties are the worst. Why would anyone buy something old with layers and layers of bad rescue attempts? Millennials may want small, but they don't want old. |
Who? |
Generation X was frequently derided as the "slacker" generation, but they turned out to be both industrious and the primary buyers of larger homes. At some point the millennials will grow up. The Peter Pan act gets old eventually. |
I dunno, probably people who can spell "historical" |
Gen X has retained many of the characteristics they always had and remains markedly different from the boomers. They're still much more cynical than the previous generation, along with other characteristics. Seems a bit absurd to think that millennials will suddenly have a huge personality shift when many of them are already in late 20s/early 30s and their behavior within the workplace has been so noticeably different from previous generations and shows no signs of changing |
It's not as absurd as attributing to an entire generation a set of preferences associated primarily with a subset of that generation. If the demand for the larger homes in the suburbs didn't exist you wouldn't see the continued growth in suburbs like Loudoun and Howard Counties, or entire new subdivisions of homes priced over $1.5 million inside the Beltway selling out in months. I don't want to keep anyone from making pronouncements based on their own, extended navel-gazing, or faux-surveys of Millenials responding to loaded questions, but sometimes actually looking at market information might be informative. |
So, you see a lot of gen xers living in the city, wearing flannel shirts and baby doll dresses while working at Starbucks? |