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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just turned 31 and have two babies. We bought a historic home with a decent commute in the close in burbs. McMansions are gross. Our next house will be another historic home.[/quote]

That was me ten years ago.  Actually were on our second historic home.  And now we live in a large newer construction home with our 12 and 9 year old and would never go back.  Only the young insist they will never change.[/quote]

Well, you're wrong actually. Lots of old and older people insist they will never change, have never changed, despite decades of evidence to the contrary, and "newer construction" does not necessarily mean "McMansion." I'm not opposed to buying a new home, but neither am I buying some crapshack built to spec by a builder who knows nothing about design and is proud of it. - the 36 year old Millennial[/quote]

If you are 36, you aren't a millennial.  And it seems like all the people on this thread insisting they will never change are young.[/quote]

What you're not taking into account is that change has already occurred.  You have thousands of urban professionals living in parts of the city that 25 years ago professionals wouldn't have set foot in. A definite change has already happened.  Sure, there will be plenty of millennials who end up in the burbs but unlike the 1980s, the burbs aren't the only place for a well off couple to raise kids.  [/quote

You need to get over yourself.  [b]Young people have been living in urban centers since the days of the original yuppies (young urban professionals) who are actually boomers. [/b] Only the only thing that changes is which city neighborhoods are trendy.  There is nothing particularly original about millennial a.[/quote]

Not to the extent they are now.  It isn't true that simply the popular neighborhoods have changed.  In DC alone I can't think of any parts of town that are now rundown and not popular.  Sure, some may be trendier than others but now you have more and more neighborhoods to choose from.  [/quote]

That's because the dc population has grown significantly has grown over the past 15 years, and what was once up and coming is now established.  When I moved to dc twenty years ago, dupoint and adams morgan were edgy.  It isn't because of the special snowflake millennials.[/quote]

WTF? When I lived in DC 30 years ago, DuPont wasn't edgy, just gay, and Adams Morgan was only edgy around that stretch of 17th that probably still sucks today unless that extended family with all the issues got evicted.[/quote]

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