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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Signed, a boomer that got their housing for 3 blueberries back in 1940 from a Sears catalog. Go talk to young people, even high earners, on how difficult it is to buy a house nowadays. [/quote]

Reading OP is fundamental.  Young people may have to make the very tough decision to not live in Arlington or Chevy Chase. They may have to: rent; commute from Gaithersburg (via the existing mass transit because climate); transfer jobs to Omaha; buy a condo in Arlington or Chevy Chase and live like most of Europe or NYC or urban Asia already does[/quote]

Or, the voters of Montgomery County might decide to elect elected officials who believe Montgomery County will be better off if Montgomery County is a place where young people want to and can afford to live, and enact housing, land use, and transportation policies accordingly.[/quote]

Translation:  upzone MoCo, make a whole bunch of crappy section 8 housing, import poverty, trash schools and watch as the entire county declines as people with money, who make up the lion's share of the tax base, flee.

Kinda hard to have so many progressive policies and plans when you no longer have people who'll pay for all of the free stuff and progress. [/quote]

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