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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As pp stated, its not just about “burger flippers”. To function, a healthy and effective society needs teachers, firefighters, EMTs, healthcare workers, sanitation workers, etc. These are not high paying jobs. These employees need somewhere to live. [/quote]

I am a nurse ($128k fwiw). The VAST majority of my fellow nurses live in places like Howard County, Olney, Urbana, Clarksburg, Rockville …. if they’re married with kids and have a 4-bedroom home. The single, no-kids nurses live in DC and Arlington.

I have never once, in 7 years, met another RN in the DMV who just couldn’t afford to live here within 40 minutes of work at a DC/Montgomery County hospital.  In fact, we tend to do pretty well, take vacations, have our kids in travel sports (if married), eat out all the time (the single ones).

Maybe the couples living in a 3000 sq ft newer build house in Olney would prefer to live in NWDC. It doesn’t follow that their dreams have been crushed and they’re living in hardship.

I’ve never understood why RNs and similar are always lumped in with minimum wage workers. [b]But honestly, even they can get a couple of roommates and rent in an older building in a first-ring suburb.  How I know? My son does exactly this with an intern’s $17/hr wage. [/b][/quote]

Yes, families can definitely get a couple of other families and illegally rent in a small older "single-family" house outside the Beltway, or illegally double up with another family in a two-bedroom apartment in a rental complex in Gaithersburg. What is this evidence of? It's evidence of a housing shortage. Plus, at least on line, the same posters who oppose pro-housing policies, such as zoning changes, also demand stricter code enforcement against these types of illegal housing arrangements.

https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/maryland/montgomery-county/12-people-displaced-after-house-fire-in-wheaton-glenmont/

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You didn’t reject my actual datapoints offered about “healthcare workers” making $100k +/- somehow finding a safe place to live. Within 40 minutes of their hospital.

Re: the doubling up “families” …. It’s fine if 4 unrelated men rent a 1+ bed w den in gaithersburg.   Also fine if person, spouse, unrelated adult does the same.

Is there no room for these ^^^ people’s children in the same apartment? I have a solution!! 1.  Don’t have more kids until your financial circumstances change. 2.  Move to a different US city with unskilled jobs in an agriculture heavy state where housing is cheaper. 3.  Move back to the place you just moved *from*.  Ahem[/quote]

"Don't have had children" is not actually a solution, housing or otherwise.

You didn't offer data points, you offered anecdata, but I don't really care, plus I think it would be good if people could live closer to their work than a 40-minute drive.[/quote]

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