What’s so bad about living in a townhouse?

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a TH as a kid and didn’t feel deprived at all, I live in a TH now and I love how cheap it is, my mortgage is 5% of my gross income. Never stress about money and save 70% of my paycheck. The local schools are also pretty good and wouldn’t feel bad about sending my young kids there. I could afford a 7 figure home but don’t see the need. Why does everyone feel like they need a SFH?

I think it’s a stigma thing or a “keeping up with the Joneses” situation.

The ones who have bought the 7 figure SFH are house poor, and always want people to visit them because they bought such a big house with no one visiting them. And no one wants to drive an hour out in the suburbs to hang out with your friend in a SFH.

Some of my friends moved to the burbs and bought a SFH. We never see them. They have a nice big house and all but I’m not spending half my day to go visit them in their giant house.

There are plenty of SFH in DC and plenty of townhouses in the burbs... just pointing this out. It's not either / or. Especially as you can easily say they never see you either!

All my friends moved somewhere like Fairfax or McLean for a SFH. As someone who lives in DC, you can’t pay me enough to drive all the way out there to see your Shitty Family Home. You wanna hang out? Come to the city.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a TH as a kid and didn’t feel deprived at all, I live in a TH now and I love how cheap it is, my mortgage is 5% of my gross income. Never stress about money and save 70% of my paycheck. The local schools are also pretty good and wouldn’t feel bad about sending my young kids there. I could afford a 7 figure home but don’t see the need. Why does everyone feel like they need a SFH?

I think it’s a stigma thing or a “keeping up with the Joneses” situation.

The ones who have bought the 7 figure SFH are house poor, and always want people to visit them because they bought such a big house with no one visiting them. And no one wants to drive an hour out in the suburbs to hang out with your friend in a SFH.

Some of my friends moved to the burbs and bought a SFH. We never see them. They have a nice big house and all but I’m not spending half my day to go visit them in their giant house.

There are plenty of SFH in DC and plenty of townhouses in the burbs... just pointing this out. It's not either / or. Especially as you can easily say they never see you either!

All my friends moved somewhere like Fairfax or McLean for a SFH. As someone who lives in DC, you can’t pay me enough to drive all the way out there to see your Shitty Family Home. You wanna hang out? Come to the city.

No one wants to hang out at your 1BR condo in the city and wade throw the haze of weed smoke on the way from the car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Small, sharing walls, no privacy, no yard, likely no garage, appreciate slowly, no option to tear down and build new. Let's be honest, they're for cash-strapped people and maybe elderly pensioners who wish to downsize.

LOL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a TH as a kid and didn’t feel deprived at all, I live in a TH now and I love how cheap it is, my mortgage is 5% of my gross income. Never stress about money and save 70% of my paycheck. The local schools are also pretty good and wouldn’t feel bad about sending my young kids there. I could afford a 7 figure home but don’t see the need. Why does everyone feel like they need a SFH?

I think it’s a stigma thing or a “keeping up with the Joneses” situation.

The ones who have bought the 7 figure SFH are house poor, and always want people to visit them because they bought such a big house with no one visiting them. And no one wants to drive an hour out in the suburbs to hang out with your friend in a SFH.

Some of my friends moved to the burbs and bought a SFH. We never see them. They have a nice big house and all but I’m not spending half my day to go visit them in their giant house.

There are plenty of SFH in DC and plenty of townhouses in the burbs... just pointing this out. It's not either / or. Especially as you can easily say they never see you either!

All my friends moved somewhere like Fairfax or McLean for a SFH. As someone who lives in DC, you can’t pay me enough to drive all the way out there to see your Shitty Family Home. You wanna hang out? Come to the city.

No one wants to hang out at your 1BR condo in the city and wade throw the haze of weed smoke on the way from the car.

Right - but in the city, you go do stuff in the city, you’re not hanging out at someone’s place. Duh.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Small, sharing walls, no privacy, no yard, likely no garage, appreciate slowly, no option to tear down and build new. Let's be honest, they're for cash-strapped people and maybe elderly pensioners who wish to downsize.

I live in a SFH and even I can safely say that you have no idea what you’re talking about lol.

You're in denial. Only on DCUM do people pretend nobody cares where you live or what caliber of home you live in. Nobody judges anyone! It doesn't matter what address pops up when people Google you. It doesn't matter that your return address on mail and cards is some cheap townhouse. It doesn't matter that your tiny home is too small to have company. It doesn't matter that you can hear every argument your neighbors have and/or when they have sex. It doesn't matter than you can't work from home without hearing the kids or TV or a sink or toilet that's all no more than 20 feet away.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a TH as a kid and didn’t feel deprived at all, I live in a TH now and I love how cheap it is, my mortgage is 5% of my gross income. Never stress about money and save 70% of my paycheck. The local schools are also pretty good and wouldn’t feel bad about sending my young kids there. I could afford a 7 figure home but don’t see the need. Why does everyone feel like they need a SFH?

I think it’s a stigma thing or a “keeping up with the Joneses” situation.

The ones who have bought the 7 figure SFH are house poor, and always want people to visit them because they bought such a big house with no one visiting them. And no one wants to drive an hour out in the suburbs to hang out with your friend in a SFH.

Some of my friends moved to the burbs and bought a SFH. We never see them. They have a nice big house and all but I’m not spending half my day to go visit them in their giant house.

There are plenty of SFH in DC and plenty of townhouses in the burbs... just pointing this out. It's not either / or. Especially as you can easily say they never see you either!

All my friends moved somewhere like Fairfax or McLean for a SFH. As someone who lives in DC, you can’t pay me enough to drive all the way out there to see your Shitty Family Home. You wanna hang out? Come to the city.

No one wants to hang out at your 1BR condo in the city and wade throw the haze of weed smoke on the way from the car.

+1. The cope in this thread is comical. I could TOTALLY have a nice big SFH, I just don't want one! Yeah, and you drive your Honda CRV or Subaru when you could TOTALLY afford the new Range Rover. And the kids are in dysfunctional publics when you could TOTALLY afford a Big 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a TH as a kid and didn’t feel deprived at all, I live in a TH now and I love how cheap it is, my mortgage is 5% of my gross income. Never stress about money and save 70% of my paycheck. The local schools are also pretty good and wouldn’t feel bad about sending my young kids there. I could afford a 7 figure home but don’t see the need. Why does everyone feel like they need a SFH?

I think it’s a stigma thing or a “keeping up with the Joneses” situation.

The ones who have bought the 7 figure SFH are house poor, and always want people to visit them because they bought such a big house with no one visiting them. And no one wants to drive an hour out in the suburbs to hang out with your friend in a SFH.

Some of my friends moved to the burbs and bought a SFH. We never see them. They have a nice big house and all but I’m not spending half my day to go visit them in their giant house.

There are plenty of SFH in DC and plenty of townhouses in the burbs... just pointing this out. It's not either / or. Especially as you can easily say they never see you either!

All my friends moved somewhere like Fairfax or McLean for a SFH. As someone who lives in DC, you can’t pay me enough to drive all the way out there to see your Shitty Family Home. You wanna hang out? Come to the city.

No one wants to hang out at your 1BR condo in the city and wade throw the haze of weed smoke on the way from the car.

Right - but in the city, you go do stuff in the city, you’re not hanging out at someone’s place. Duh.

Which was fun when you were 25. Not when you're 40 with kids.

I live in what is technically suburbs but I can walk to the city border in 15 minutes. I rarely go out to city activities because I'm just too busy. I'd rather park myself in my backyard on the weekends and enjoy the good weather and be friendly with the neighbors than deal with the hassles of urban traffic and parking and weed and whatever.

Look, it's fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a TH as a kid and didn’t feel deprived at all, I live in a TH now and I love how cheap it is, my mortgage is 5% of my gross income. Never stress about money and save 70% of my paycheck. The local schools are also pretty good and wouldn’t feel bad about sending my young kids there. I could afford a 7 figure home but don’t see the need. Why does everyone feel like they need a SFH?

I think it’s a stigma thing or a “keeping up with the Joneses” situation.

The ones who have bought the 7 figure SFH are house poor, and always want people to visit them because they bought such a big house with no one visiting them. And no one wants to drive an hour out in the suburbs to hang out with your friend in a SFH.

Some of my friends moved to the burbs and bought a SFH. We never see them. They have a nice big house and all but I’m not spending half my day to go visit them in their giant house.

There are plenty of SFH in DC and plenty of townhouses in the burbs... just pointing this out. It's not either / or. Especially as you can easily say they never see you either!

All my friends moved somewhere like Fairfax or McLean for a SFH. As someone who lives in DC, you can’t pay me enough to drive all the way out there to see your Shitty Family Home. You wanna hang out? Come to the city.

Spoiler alert: They don't wanna hang out with you, an urban SINK (or maybe a DINK). They all made new friends with successful suburban peers who can afford a big SFH and have kids.

[Anonymous]

I remember on one of the Real Housewives shows the rich women were gossiping about a woman and roasting her for living in a townhome. The subtext was she and her husband were too broke to afford a real house. Maybe that's cruel but that's pretty much the reputation townhomes have, whether you want to admit it or not.

[Anonymous]

Does OP have 500,000 HHI in a townhome?

[Anonymous]

I grew up in a townhouse in DC - loved it. I love townhouses.

[Anonymous]

We are a family of 4 with 2 kids attending private. Our HHI is 500k and we live in a SFH. However we are seriously considering selling our overpriced home in the suburbs (where we have no connection to the neighborhood), and moving into a new townhome community closer to the city, along trails and water, and walkable to many amenities. This isn’t in DC metro, but all of our friends that we mention this to really get excited about visiting if we make the move. No one wants seems bothered whatsoever about living in a townhome, and we certainly don’t care if it offers us more conveniences at a lower mortgage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Small, sharing walls, no privacy, no yard, likely no garage, appreciate slowly, no option to tear down and build new. Let's be honest, they're for cash-strapped people and maybe elderly pensioners who wish to downsize.

I live in a SFH and even I can safely say that you have no idea what you’re talking about lol.

You're in denial. Only on DCUM do people pretend nobody cares where you live or what caliber of home you live in. Nobody judges anyone! It doesn't matter what address pops up when people Google you. It doesn't matter that your return address on mail and cards is some cheap townhouse. It doesn't matter that your tiny home is too small to have company. It doesn't matter that you can hear every argument your neighbors have and/or when they have sex. It doesn't matter than you can't work from home without hearing the kids or TV or a sink or toilet that's all no more than 20 feet away.

It’s easy to tell that you either got bullied and made fun of in school or if you’re a dude, you have a small PP.

This is troll level insecurity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a TH as a kid and didn’t feel deprived at all, I live in a TH now and I love how cheap it is, my mortgage is 5% of my gross income. Never stress about money and save 70% of my paycheck. The local schools are also pretty good and wouldn’t feel bad about sending my young kids there. I could afford a 7 figure home but don’t see the need. Why does everyone feel like they need a SFH?

I think it’s a stigma thing or a “keeping up with the Joneses” situation.

The ones who have bought the 7 figure SFH are house poor, and always want people to visit them because they bought such a big house with no one visiting them. And no one wants to drive an hour out in the suburbs to hang out with your friend in a SFH.

Some of my friends moved to the burbs and bought a SFH. We never see them. They have a nice big house and all but I’m not spending half my day to go visit them in their giant house.

There are plenty of SFH in DC and plenty of townhouses in the burbs... just pointing this out. It's not either / or. Especially as you can easily say they never see you either!

All my friends moved somewhere like Fairfax or McLean for a SFH. As someone who lives in DC, you can’t pay me enough to drive all the way out there to see your Shitty Family Home. You wanna hang out? Come to the city.

No one wants to hang out at your 1BR condo in the city and wade throw the haze of weed smoke on the way from the car.

+1. The cope in this thread is comical. I could TOTALLY have a nice big SFH, I just don't want one! Yeah, and you drive your Honda CRV or Subaru when you could TOTALLY afford the new Range Rover. And the kids are in dysfunctional publics when you could TOTALLY afford a Big 3.

Nobody wants to go drive way out to Bethesda for your 1 million dollar shack, Deborah. Get over it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember on one of the Real Housewives shows the rich women were gossiping about a woman and roasting her for living in a townhome. The subtext was she and her husband were too broke to afford a real house. Maybe that's cruel but that's pretty much the reputation townhomes have, whether you want to admit it or not.

Yeah totally, townhouses are only for the poors.


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