What the heck is up with these exburb boosters?
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
I love the implication that really cool, virtuous, GOOD people must continue to live in cramped quarters as long as they are within city limits instead of decamping to, SHUDDER, suburbs that are a better match for the real needs of their family, which do not include racking up UrbanCool(TM) points. |
Anonymous
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Some people live in tiny TH's way out in the 'burbs because THAT is all they can afford. It isn't an either/or situation.
I think a post of mine yesterday was misconstrued as me thinking people were stupid for spending so much money to live in a house close in. I don't think it's stupid. It costs that much for a reason, and people will pay it. There ARE other choices for what to do with a budget approaching $1 M like that, but only the homeowner can decide which of those choices works for them. No one thinks you're dumb for making the choice you do (well, OK, maybe SOME do, but it isn't me personally). We had a sub-$500K budget and non-DC commutes. There was absolutely no reason for us to buy closer in, but even with close to half a mil to spend, the money only goes so far. We got a 40 year old house that needed updating on the edge of Fairfax. Yes, we have a 4 BR colonial and a yard, because we were tired of being squeezed into the 2 BR TH we had lived in not far from our current location for so long. We wanted a backyard where we could have a playscape for our kid and a dog and maybe a small garden. We were NOT asking for a gargantuan house, just a house with a yard. If people choose downtown condo, good for them. If they buy a $1M older home in Arlington, good for them. And if they choose to buy in Stafford County, VA and commute to downtown, hey, good for them. We are all different, right? This us vs. them mentality is ridiculous. |
Anonymous
We are in a 1950s-era brick rambler in a good-but-not-top school pyramid. Technically it has four bedrooms, but one is in the basement, which needs to be updated. The kitchen is nice, but our bathrooms were last done in the 1990s by a previous owner. The house cost $500,000 and is in a solidly middle class neighborhood because, gasp, some of us who work in the DC metro area make significantly less than $250K per year. So please get the McMansion idea out of your head. |
Anonymous
There you go, it's just a different choice. You "have" to live in West Bumblefuck because you chose to overpopulate the planet. It's clear from your post you'd prefer to live closer in, but your life choices preclude it. Bummer. (Unless you had quadruplets - in which case, my heartfelt sympathy.) |
Anonymous
| some of us only have one because our bodies won't allow us to reproduce again, so the special snowflake singleton remark is offensive on MANY levels |
Anonymous
Rockville is an exurb? Half of Silver Spring is an exurb? No. |
Anonymous
No, that's not the implication at all. Good people - and douchebags - live everywhere. The point is that ALL of us make choices, trade-offs and sacrifices. Those of us who live in the city often sacrifice square footage, outside space, etc. because other things are more important. To others, big houses and yards are more important than the convenience of living in the city. Each of those choices is fine - until you start whining that "Some of us can only afford to live outside the Beltway." Then, you're a child who just can't take responsibility for your own life and choices. It's an unattractive quality in an elementary school child; it's intolerable in an adult. |
Anonymous
It must suck working for some Fed agency, stuck in the bowels on Constitution ave. You came here thinking you'd change the world, and now all you do is change forms and forms and forms. You found out America doesn't care about your plight and by the way it's really expensive here. But you're stuck here because your "skill" doesn't translate into a job any where else. Unless you just want to become a clerk. Enjoy the exburbs tonight. Take those 3 hours driving home to think about it. |
Anonymous
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when what you can afford inside the city is a 1 BR condo in a not so good neighborhood and you have children...yeah, some of us CAN'T afford to live inside the beltway. This does NOT mean that we run to the exurbs and all bitch about commutes to the city. There are so many choices in between the two.
Stop acting like it is black and white. |
Anonymous
But you're so important and/or fulfilled you troll others on the internet. how cunty. |
Anonymous
| Can I still call them Manassholes? |
Anonymous
If I could afford a 5000 sf house, I'd have enough money to hire a maid. |
Anonymous
Hey now! No reason to get snippy. Different strokes for different folks and all. It's natural that people who love the suburbs would dislike the city, and those who love the city dislike the suburbs. Nothing new there. But your neighbors actually have an affinity for the suburbs in general--just hate the DC suburbs in particular. If you think they're wrong, take it up with your neighbors. |
Anonymous
+1 |