What’s so bad about living in a townhouse?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Townhome = I’m up to my eyeballs in student loans and Discover Card debt and this is all the mortgage loan officer will approve

Well then, you certainly are not poor
And your salary will increase
Sounds more like personal choice
We toook a mortgage that we can afford on one salary, just don’t want to be house poor.
I am also allergic to the UMC people who look down on the kind that live in townhomes, so that is a benefit to me.
We also get an annual free pair of socks. I sooo appreciate them and these give me great joy

[Anonymous]

I like my DC townhouse a lot. It would be nice to have a yard but otherwise it’s great, I don’t get the issue people have with sharing walls. It has never been an issue for me.

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I lived in a townhouse once, then my Dad got a job.

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Anonymous wrote:Your neighbors are likely renters…or they soon will be when the units transition to rentals.

And you will hear their cars, every time they argue, when they have sex, and smell what they have for dinner. Fun times!

Just like in your SFH where you can stretch your arms out between you and your neighbors house and hear and smell the same thing!

Where are SFHs that close together?

Ummm everywhere in the DMV. Your average yard here is less than .10 acre. Unless you live on half an acre, you will hear and smell neighbor activities.

I live on 1/4 acre and there is room between homes. Not a ton of room as the builders build horizontally to prioritize backyard space, but enough.

You can still hear loud music and smell smoke. Sorry but 1/4 an acre isn’t enough for you to say “I live completely independent from elements”.

My gosh, how thick are you? Your neighbors are more likely to be trashy in a lower income area with lots of renters and entry-level (town) home owners. This is quite literally what fuels higher end real estate — people fleeing trashy poor neighbors and seeking peace and quite and classy neighbors who know how to act. People eagerly pay premiums for good neighbors and no unsightly cheap townhomes and apartments.

You.are.hysterical!!

+1 Nobody in our townhome community is low-income - it's too expensive to buy or rent here. Vast majority of the houses are owner occupied.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like my DC townhouse a lot. It would be nice to have a yard but otherwise it’s great, I don’t get the issue people have with sharing walls. It has never been an issue for me.

I agree that many townhomes have good enough walls that sharing walls is not an issue. And we have been lucky to be have great neighbors, though I am nervous if they ever choose to sell. In our community there is someone who has a visitor that likes to idle their car on the driveway late in the evening and has long, loud conversations at their door. Their neighbor is miserable.

[Anonymous]

You know what is hilarious? A few years I posted that we needed to downsize from a SFH into a TH because my husband was having health issues (he is now disabled and we are on one income), and that I was concerned about how people would perceive us, and I was totally excoriated on this board for daring to suggest that people look down on people who live in townhouses. Thanks to this thread for proving to me that my concerns were correct!

(We did move into a townhouse and actually like it much better.)

[Anonymous]

My street is full of people with what I'd consider "average" jobs - PAs, nurses, HR, restaurant managers, social workers, local nonprofit leaders, etc - and they're not judgmental snobs. And when we are making noise and having campfires in someone's yard, all are invited. So point one in favor of townhouses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know what is hilarious? A few years I posted that we needed to downsize from a SFH into a TH because my husband was having health issues (he is now disabled and we are on one income), and that I was concerned about how people would perceive us, and I was totally excoriated on this board for daring to suggest that people look down on people who live in townhouses. Thanks to this thread for proving to me that my concerns were correct!

(We did move into a townhouse and actually like it much better.)

Right? This thread is a perfect example of the hypocrisy on this board.

[Anonymous]

Question to all the SFH snobs on here - do you really think people in $1.2M+ historical townhouses in DC are just too poor and trashy for a SFH?

[Anonymous]

I live in Potomac not DC but in regards to 2023 pricing in Potomac I would say.

Under 1.4 million is lower income housing
1.4 to like 1.8 million is middle class
1.8 million to 2.4 million is well off
2.5 million and above is rich

My block of 1.5-1.9 million homes are working class people with basketball hoops in driveway and Hyundai and Chevy type cars.

My daughters friend who lives on a 2-3 million block are the rich crowd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question to all the SFH snobs on here - do you really think people in $1.2M+ historical townhouses in DC are just too poor and trashy for a SFH?

They even have those 1.3 million dollars townhomes in places like old town and Reston.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in Potomac not DC but in regards to 2023 pricing in Potomac I would say.

Under 1.4 million is lower income housing
1.4 to like 1.8 million is middle class
1.8 million to 2.4 million is well off
2.5 million and above is rich

My block of 1.5-1.9 million homes are working class people with basketball hoops in driveway and Hyundai and Chevy type cars.

My daughters friend who lives on a 2-3 million block are the rich crowd.

1.4 million? They are poor janitors. Poors need to GTFO.

[Anonymous]

If you have a family of 4 or less, a TH is perfectly fine. I don’t understand the DINKS who buy a gigantic 3500 Sq ft SFH house. What’s the point? To impress people who don’t even give a shit how big your house is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have a family of 4 or less, a TH is perfectly fine. I don’t understand the DINKS who buy a gigantic 3500 Sq ft SFH house. What’s the point? To impress people who don’t even give a shit how big your house is?

Dink here with a 2,900 sq ft house.
1 br to sleep in, 1 br for guests, 2 br for two home offices.

We prefer having no shared walls and space to spread out in, and it is within our budget.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have a family of 4 or less, a TH is perfectly fine. I don’t understand the DINKS who buy a gigantic 3500 Sq ft SFH house. What’s the point? To impress people who don’t even give a shit how big your house is?

Why do you think buying a house of a certain size has anything to do with impressing people? Seriously, why do you think that is why people buy larger houses?

Stop thinking only through your own personal lens.