What’s so bad about living in a townhouse?

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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.

It’s a poor crank cope. Everyone richer than them is insecure, shallow and secretly overextended and poor. Pathetic losers.

I too, know people who must buy the biggest house of their friend groups to impress others. Or lease the newest luxury brand cars yearly. It’s an unofficial competition with my people, especially in this region.

Just look at half the responses in this thread…they’re all shaming people for choosing to live in a TH. It’s just weird.

And those of us living in townhomes are like 🤑 joke's on you sucker

Yeah, you TH dwellers are all millionaires next door. Who are you kidding.

Uh... the richest people I know all live in townhouses. In Dupont Circle. And their homes are all 1000x nicer than the McMansions some people I know live in. I rent an apartment so I have no dog in this fight, but I personally find large, new homes to be mostly gross unless they are architecturally important.

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In addition to quality of life concerns, a nice big house puts you next to successful families in a neighborhood you won’t find renters and unwashed pretenders in. It projects status. Successful people care about their reputation and community standing. They don’t want broke messy people in their orbit. Concepts and concerns which go over the heads of average townhome dwellers.

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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.

Stop assuming things you don’t know about. I’ve had 2 friends who bought a big house and told me they have so they can show it off. This exists. Don’t be dense.

NP. Show it off? lol I think that's something that's in your mind. We bought a house so our kids could have their own bedroom, we could throw large birthday parties in the basement and yard, I could host the end of the year parties for school, campfire night for girl scouts, on and on. Townhouse people never step up to host or volunteer for any events at their house. Despite the majority of our school living in apartments and townhouses, my oldest has only been on one playdate to one. I do feel like the expectation is there that if you have a house, you should host.

Tyler Perry and Byron Allen bought $100 million mega mansions because they’re so painfully insecure. lol

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Anonymous wrote:Simple, shared walls. So, shared noise, shared screaming / crying kid, shared music blasting, shared barking dogs, etc etc. It was always something.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:In addition to quality of life concerns, a nice big house puts you next to successful families in a neighborhood you won’t find renters and unwashed pretenders in. It projects status. Successful people care about their reputation and community standing. They don’t want broke messy people in their orbit. Concepts and concerns which go over the heads of average townhome dwellers.

You sound like such a nice neighbor. I wish I lived next to you so you could pass judgement on my car, clothes, job, etc. It would totally improve my life!

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Anonymous wrote:In addition to quality of life concerns, a nice big house puts you next to successful families in a neighborhood you won’t find renters and unwashed pretenders in. It projects status. Successful people care about their reputation and community standing. They don’t want broke messy people in their orbit. Concepts and concerns which go over the heads of average townhome dwellers.

Imagine being this insecure about your life.

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Anonymous wrote:In addition to quality of life concerns, a nice big house puts you next to successful families in a neighborhood you won’t find renters and unwashed pretenders in. It projects status. Successful people care about their reputation and community standing. They don’t want broke messy people in their orbit. Concepts and concerns which go over the heads of average townhome dwellers.

You okay?

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Anonymous wrote:What’s so bad about living in a townhouse?

Neighbors, claustrophobia, and everyone assuming you have a sub-prime credit score.

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I find it funny to read this thread in DC, the land of the million dollar townhouse.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s so bad about living in a townhouse?

Neighbors, claustrophobia, and everyone assuming you have a sub-prime credit score.

Just stop being poor!!

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Anonymous wrote:What’s so bad about living in a townhouse?

Neighbors, claustrophobia, and everyone assuming you have a sub-prime credit score.

Serious question, do you care what other people think your credit score is? I live in a townhouse. My credit score is great. We don't make much money but we live within our means. It's never once occurred to me to care what other people think my credit score is or to guess at what other people's is. I don't get this at all.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s so bad about living in a townhouse?

Neighbors, claustrophobia, and everyone assuming you have a sub-prime credit score.

Serious question, do you care what other people think your credit score is? I live in a townhouse. My credit score is great. We don't make much money but we live within our means. It's never once occurred to me to care what other people think my credit score is or to guess at what other people's is. I don't get this at all.

The funny part is, that poster who cares about credit score probably is sitting on 400k worth of debt just to impress their neighbors.

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Anonymous wrote:TH are awesome. Only issue I would have is I didn't want to share wall space with others when I had kids. Didn't want to have to worry about noise from the kids or when we host parties.

Also, with a TH, your siding/roof/outside maintenance to the building is typically the responsibility of the HOA. So while I would replace a roof at the first signs of issues. The HOA may just fix until it gets too bad. That means you as the owner are responsible for any inside damages that result each time the roof leaks.

Basically, a large part of home maintenance is covered by the HOA and you are at the whims of when they are willing to fork over the $$$ for repairs and depending upon how the HOA is run, you might find yourself waiting for repairs or replacements when they wont authorize them yet. There are pluses to this---you never have to schedule roofers/painters/lawn care/etc.

I own a condo (now rented out) and the HOA has taken responsibility any time interior damage has been caused by a common element, such as by applying Kilz and repainting the ceiling if the roof leaked (and repairing the roof, of course, and eventually replacing it).

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Anonymous wrote:I live in a rowhouse and as a house, it's totally fine, but I hate the lack of outdoor space. (I have a postage stamp yard small enough that we cross the street to use the school field to play soccer or Frisbee, and no off street parking or space for a shed.)

But you don't have to mow or pay to have the lawn mowed and deal with weeds and vermin. Win win!

That's what my husband said. But I have to deal with SO MANY WEEDS because we have brick sidewalks and a stone patio, old enough that there are constantly weeds growing in the cracks. It's super annoying and I would probably prefer mowing.

Yeah I hear you. Pull the weeds as much as you can and spray whatever's left - they will wither down to the roots (if you can't get the roots out).

I have a friend who pours boiling water on weeds between cracks and it works without introducing any toxicity.

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If my budget were $2M, I would want a rowhouse in the city. As it is, my budget was $1M, and I have a rowhouse in the city.