What’s so bad about living in a townhouse?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.


Like this one


https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7507-Sawyer-Farm-Way-UNIT-2001-McLean-VA-22102/338273368_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

It’s zoned to west gate elementary and in Pimmit hills. I.e next door to all the poor folks that can actually afford McLean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: 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.

Lol @ this idea that all townhouses have “judge-worthy” addresses (and are cheap, small, and badly insulated). In a social climber’s comparison between the average TH in a place like Georgetown and the average SFH in a place like Manassas, I think we all know which of those would “win”. Hint: it’s not the SFH.

[Anonymous]

We live in a townhouse, we're tired of our revolving door of renters next door, and our kids would love a yard to kick the soccer ball around after school and on weekends. We'd love more space to be able to entertain and host our large family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.


Like this one


https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7507-Sawyer-Farm-Way-UNIT-2001-McLean-VA-22102/338273368_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

It’s zoned to west gate elementary and in Pimmit hills. I.e next door to all the poor folks that can actually afford McLean.

Pic # 19 says it all

[Anonymous]

We loved our townhome until covid. Having small children cooped up when the county parks were all closed was h*ll. My toddler had to play on sidewalks while cars were just barreling through our neighborhood above the speed limit. Older kids were in the streets, unsupervised, teaching my young ones things I’d rather they didn’t know. I immediately decided that we needed a yard.

[Anonymous]

My main issue is less light + long narrow shape with more stairs.

But I would prefer to live in a townhouse in a cool urban neighborhood (park slope Brooklyn) or fancy downtown area (west village, Georgetown, kalorama) than in the (cute and pleasant but more suburban ) sfh i live in. DH and kids probably not.

Bottom line: yes to TH if it allows me to be closer in, for same price and location sfh is more comfortable

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.


Like this one


https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7507-Sawyer-Farm-Way-UNIT-2001-McLean-VA-22102/338273368_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

1.4 is still white trash

I audibly laughed that PP thinks this is classy. This will be bought by some slumlord and rented out to a half dozen IT contractors.

Hopefully just a quarter dozen or they’re going to be sharing beds.

[Anonymous]

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

That's not even remotely true, lol.

Townhomes that have been built in the last 40 years or so, have a firewall in between the two homes, to prevent the spread of fires from one townhome to another (much older townhomes in beach communities may have shared walls, but that's not true of any townhouse built since the 1980's).

Building code requires townhomes to have a firewall separating units.

The firewalls in a townhouse are fire-resistant barriers that are built between & through buildings, walls, structures and electrical substation transformers.

There are NO shared walls anywhere in a townhouse with the neighbors on either side.

Each townhome has their own wall that may back up to one another, but they don't touch because in between each of the two walls, there is an thick layer of fireproofing/firewall that also works as a sound barrier.
Thus it would be practically impossible to hear what the pp just described.

https://exactrecon.com/how-protected-is-my-townhome-if-theres-a-fire-next-door/#:~:text=A%20firewall%2C%20or%20an%20area,townhomes%20share%20a%20common%20wall

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.


Like this one


https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7507-Sawyer-Farm-Way-UNIT-2001-McLean-VA-22102/338273368_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

1.4 is still white trash

I audibly laughed that PP thinks this is classy. This will be bought by some slumlord and rented out to a half dozen IT contractors.

Nobody cares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:too many stairs

SFHs have stairs too.
My new 2 story SFH home has as many stairs as my previous 2 story TH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:too many stairs

This. And unless you live in the Pacific Palisades, they don't really appreciate financially.

Ummm wrong. They definitely appreciate well. Not as much as SFH, but I’ve known people who had 200k+ equity grow in their TH’s in 5 years

Bought a TH for 500k in 2017. Sold it for 820k in 2022.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.


Like this one


https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7507-Sawyer-Farm-Way-UNIT-2001-McLean-VA-22102/338273368_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

It’s zoned to west gate elementary and in Pimmit hills. I.e next door to all the poor folks that can actually afford McLean.

I would love to be a poor that can afford a 1.4m home. Please make me poor.

[Anonymous]

This thread is off the rails. I DO live in a TH because I can't afford an SFH, I DO lack good space for hosting, and I AM embarrassed sometimes. But a lot of you PPs judging other people for not being rich enough are people I would never have any interest in hosting or hearing your opinions anyway, because you're complete jerks. I can't believe people actually think and write this crap.

[Anonymous]

Some townhouses are as expensive or more than single family homes. My main concern is that the development could decline overall due to mismanagement or poor maintenance, etc. and the high costs of HOA fees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some townhouses are as expensive or more than single family homes. My main concern is that the development could decline overall due to mismanagement or poor maintenance, etc. and the high costs of HOA fees.

SFHs in planned communities also require maintenance and also have HOA fees.