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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Close in was very very different years ago. An extreme example I lived in 26st in Manhattan when single in a super dumpy block of run down walk ups. Turns out when built in mid 1800s my building was for stable boys and chimney sweeps. It was too far uptown so I my lower class servants.

Flash forward to 1955 my aunt and uncle actually still had a big farm in the Bronx and my aunt owned a rooming house in 72nd and park!! Both immigrants with no HS education.

In DC in mid 1930s plots in Potomac as cheap as $500 bucks as way to far out. In early 1980s DC full of crime and houses were for peanuts and places like Arlington and Bethesda were where the mail man and cops lived.

My parents ended up buying a house 23 miles from Manhattan in 1973 and neighbors cried as we left the city as they would never see us again that far out!!

Guess what Rockville and Gaithersburg and Ashburn in 2040 will be very close in!!  
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