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[quote=Anonymous]There are plenty of us out here, OP.  A couple of years ago I bought a house under $600K in North Arlington.  I'm sure the sh*tshack poster would call it a sh*tshack.  I love my house, though, and put up with it being older and not large because I like being closer to the city.  I will never be able to afford new build, not anywhere I'd want to live, because I simply don't have $400K to knock my current house down and put up something else, and probably never will.  I'm ok with that, though.

I hate that a couple of vocal new-build boosters here can overshadow the many of us who are perfectly happy with our older/renovated homes.  They seem to think "new" is the way everyone lives, but when I read home magazines (like Better Homes & Gardens, not the super high-end ones), they showcase older homes with lots of character.  Those homes are all over the country.  All over the country, people are living happily in older, renovated homes.  Some of the nicest, most desirable, most expensive neighborhoods in my Midwestern hometown are stately older homes, and the "cool" neighborhoods are also full of older homes.  The new developments tend to be way out in the burbs there too.

And yes, if you do have a lower (compared to some) housing budget here, you do have to make sacrifices. For some, it means moving to Woodbridge for a big new house.  For others, it means living in a smaller, older home in Arlington and doing work on it over the years.  Life is all about compromises.[/quote]

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