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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I dont get people who want to move away from friends and community they spent 18+ years building unless its totally unaffordable. When my kids are grown ill get to garden more, spend more time with the friends i made and enjoy my neighborhood more.  [/quote]

I know many people who want to leave the DMV area-it can be a cold transient area. Some people get lucky(like yourself) and land in a neighborhood that is warm and wonderful... but I have more friends looking to leave the DMV area than those wanting to stay. The interesting part is they all have beautiful homes but still feel meh about living here. The weather doesn't help-you're far from the beach. I don't get not getting it.[/quote]

DMV does have a more transient feel than other places I’ve lived in. A lot of people transfer here for jobs and transfer out a few years later. Sometimes it feels like we’re the place you go to build your career so you can go back and compete in the place you want to be.[/quote]

It's not what I observe, and I am not even from here. I see a lot of older retired people remaining in their homes and not selling, some upgrade to bigger homes, others downsize, some buy second homes or condos elsewhere and live in family homes part time, but apparently people aren't all fleeing away.   I also see kids coming back to visit during college and even moving back in after graduation.  This might be a new trend due to higher COL that keeps only climbing up. Kids "flying away" and easily building lives elsewhere isn't a guarantee, it's probably they want to come back and move into the house they grew up in until they get up on their feet, and they seek jobs in the local area, and reunite with their school friends. I am seeing this happening just as much as young people moving out of state forever, empty-nester parents selling family home and moving to the retirement "pastures".   [/quote]

Yes it took us 2 years to buy a home in our target neighborhood because there is so little inventory.  People stay in their homes for decades.  The ones that sell either are going into assisted living/ downsizing, died, or are moving into a bigger house in a same or adjacent neighborhood.  It doesn't feel transient at all.[/quote]

+1 it was more transient in my 20s-early 30s as people were figuring out their lives. But, living in Arlington, I still know most of the families I got to know when my 1st kid started elementary school and he's now in college. Some moved away for a while (foreign service) but are now back. Also all but one family in a playgroup I joined when DS was a baby still live here and I see a couple of those friends regularly. A couple of my friends even grew up in Arlington. I like it here and DS wants to live in DC after college, although my younger child doesn't.  So, I expect at least the first phase of empty nest/retirement will be here, but maybe in a different house.[/quote]

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