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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The $1.5m house on the water poster has got to be a troll. No one in the Maryland exurbs cares this much about DC area housing prices.

If they’re not a troll, then I think it’s someone upset to realize they’re a small fish in a big pond in the DMV. You can tell because (s)he mentions being familiar with the schools from looking at houses here. I get it’s a bit of a shock to realize 1m and even 1.5m doesn’t get the mansion that your childhood self would have envisioned that much money would buy in this area. But any reasonable person understands the value is in the land. Most normal grownups decide whether they want to pay more for location or for a bigger house, and then they go live happily ever after. Some choose the bigger house and then spend their free time read DC-metro real estate boards to insist anyone who made a different decision is miserable.[/quote]

Forgetting the immature expensive waterfront house tirade, they actually DO kind of have a point. There are other less expensive areas not so far away that offer good and sometimes even higher performing schools with a decent commute to DC, and those areas are also very sought after. The concerns about affordable housing and school equity raised are valid, but implying that outer-burbs don’t also have any issues with affordable housing is dishonest. River Hill and even Davidsonville/Severna Park are very expensive areas to live in compared to the rest of the region and country. Some of the schools in Howard County and Anne Arundel County that the poster mentioned have almost no FARM students at all. B-CC has 12% of its students receiving FARMs, Severna Park only has 4%. I’m familiar with Anne Arundel, and $1.5M is not going to get you something super fancy on the water, not even in Pasadena. The waterfront strip in Anne Arundel County is very rich  and exclusive. The people in Severna Park are also notorious for being blatantly racist and classist, it’s not some socio-economically integrated paradise like the poster would have you believe. Severna Park is as NIMBY as NIMBY gets, and you can’t really find any apartments or townhomes in that area. It’s also like 87% white, definitely  not a place people send their kids to so they can “experience diversity” LOL. [/quote]

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