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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don't do mid-century housing here. That's a flyover country phenomenon.[/quote]

Nope.  Your ignorance is showing.

OP, [b]this are did not have money until very recently[/b].  Certainly not like the north, where there are many large, old houses that have been cared for and well maintained.

If you drive around certain close in suburbs, you will notice the 50's and 60's original homes were all brick boxes, as that was a cheap material in those times. The houses were built for government workers and military people.  Once in a while, you will see an abandoned one, overgrown and fermenting while the will gets worked out.

Now you will notice ramshackle additions, or mostly, knockdowns, which the original owners are up in arms about.  In fact, you can barely mention knockdowns without someone getting offended and pretending they "don't want one".  When in fact, there is such a huge price discrepancy (you will have noticed if you have been looking), and the choice does not exist for many.  [/quote]

OP here.  So my suspicion is correct!  Driving around NoVa it is as if there are two different worlds here; the old one with residual older, ordinary poor/country folk, and all the new construction often occupied by the transplants.  I still don't understand why so many places are so messy.  Sure it costs money to renovate a kitchen, but not to clean up your g*ddamn yard!

Hollin Hills and the like have a very different stock of MCM than what is in Chicago, but they are interesting and appealing to me.  I don't necessarily need my kids going to a 9 or 10 school either, so we might have some options.

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