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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband works with a woman who bought a huge row house in DuPont circle in the early 80s on 1 fed salary. They still live there now. Ask yourself - what is today’s crime / neighborhood amenity equivalent of DuPont in the 80s? They didn’t buy into today’s DuPont, they took a risk.

Another fed we know bought in Lyon Village, Arlington before there was a Metro. 2 fed salaries, but very early on. Their friends thought they were moving “to the country”. What is the equivalent today to the commute and amenities from Arlington in the early 80s? They too many risk and it worked out.

All the people who moan about not being able to buy in Arlington, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Falls Church, etc. are not recognizing that those towns were not the towns they are today.  There was never a time a maid or a landscaper could afford a home in the closest neighborhoods with the best schools and amenities. If you want to live that dream, make a bet on the next place and move there before it’s built up.
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Grew up in Old Town in the late 70s. There were dozens and dozens of abandoned and boarded up old houses on Lee, Duke, Prince, etc. Those same houses now sell for 2 million without ever even going on the market.[/quote]

The new people don’t get this. I lived in DuPont Circle in the 80’s in the basement apartment of a house that now would sell for multiple millions, and in one month, there were three murders within a block of my house. I rented a house in Old Town in the 90’s that was owned by a rich lady who bought up the houses and renovated them, just because she was on a personal mission to save the houses in the historic district. The house next to me was falling down until Habitat for Humanity took it on as a project. Even Georgetown wasn’t a place rich people lived until JFK moved in when he was a Senator.

Poor/lower middle class people have never been able to afford the most “fashionable” neighborhood in town. [/quote]

Do you remember all of the shirtless muscular men roller blading up and down P Street during the summer?[/quote]

I remember the roller blading joke that went with that time!

Q: What's the most difficult part of roller bladding?

A: Telling your Dad that you are gay![/quote]

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