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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people in DC tend to be better educated and more worldly, and thus are able to either "make do" with 2,000 SF (or less sometimes) to be in a good, urban, walkable environment, or see their dream home as something large but not strangling. Like 4,000 SF, not 10,000. And being better educated, they value design and aesthetic over opulence.

Of course, there are the outliers who are very wealthy and want the 10,000 SF frontgate design home. Different strokes for difft folks.[/quote]

I don't really buy this.  It's just wishful thinking about the particular milieu in which one resides.  If a celebrity or well-known entrepreneur buys or builds a large house, no one bats an eye; in fact, they'll buy the latest version of Architectural Digest and gaze at the property with envy.  But, if some random business person does so, the knives come out - "new money," "gauche," "arriviste," etc.  It is just too upsetting to your sense of self to confront the reality  that other people may not value what you have.  From their perspective, what you have isn't tasteful or aesthetically pleasing, just ordinary. [/quote]

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