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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole argument is stupid. But anyone is welcome to buy a house that the Boomers had available to them a high interest rates. Go forth with that 2 bedroom, 1 bath, 1200 sq foot abode.[/quote]

Wait, really? If only we millennials had known there were bountiful, affordable houses out there in the prime locations the boomers got to live and all we had to do was be ok with a little smaller house!

No, wait, even a friggin' vacant lot costs a million bucks: https://www.redfin.com/VA/Arlington/Rock-Spring-Rd-22207/home/22678434

So I guess it actually is that housing is completely unaffordable and not "millennials only want HGTV houses" after all. [/quote]

They weren’t in prime locations at all. They might be good locations now but not then. The houses were “far out” with far far less amenities. You are looking at it with today’s goggles. [/quote]

Yep.  I remember when Vienna was considered so far out it wasn't a practical commute.  So police, fire, and trades people lived here.  Houses were small (you can still see some).  Reston was considered the other end of the world.  Heck, even Falls Church was a commute for GS 9s and 10s only.[/quote]

This is a good point. I think a lot of millennials don’t get that if you lived in Falls Church in 1978 you didn’t have any Metro trains and I-66 wasn’t built. The dining options were not even as good back then in the DC suburbs as in some places like Front Royal now.

And going to DC for anything but a museum back then was a dangerous proposition. Your boomer parents had to go into the city for work when it was a much more boring, dilapidated, dangerous place to give their kids a suburban upbringing that was as exciting back then as living in some drab suburb of Cleveland is now. [/quote]

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