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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you need a middle?

Most rich towns often have rich homes and a poorer section where the maids, landscapers, handiman live.

I mean does Beverly Hills, Palm Beach and Aspen concerned about the middle?

No [/quote]

Don't worry, this will actually help get rid of the middle class, as old-time, middle and lower-class homeowners sell out to developers. And then upper-class people move into the new duplex, townhouses, and multiplexes. It's a developer's dream.[/quote]

Are upper class people dying to live in multiplexes? [/quote]

I know things get confusing in a HCOL area like DC, but if you're buying a $1.25 million duplex, or renting a $4000 unit in a multiplex, you're upper class. You're certainly not the [b]25-year-old middle-class nonprofit worker, [/b]teacher, or firefighter who thought this was the ticket to living the good life in Arlington[/quote]

So naive and entitled (plus the misleading marketing by the Board for MMH) - these 20 somethings genuinely thought they were going to magically own in Arlington. I was in a community meeting with one of these young millennials who was arguing for MMH saying it was like a car, that she may not be able to own MMH right away (like a new car) but as more MMH is built prices will depreciate (like a car). A home owner in her 40s and 50s needed to explain that real estate and cars don’t depreciate/appreciate in the same way. This is what we were dealing with for a large number of YIMBYs. Lack of knowledge about economics and total naïveté/entitlement.[/quote]

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