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If you move to an area that is like the area here was when your parents bought, you can have a big house. [/quote]

What a crock.

Hmm let's see what AU Park was like when my parents bought back in 1985:

Nice housing stock, check!

Great public schools, check!

Short commute downtown, check!

Low crime, check!

Walkable to grocery stores and restaurants, check!

Affordable to regular middle class people, check!

Now let's jump to 2022, where exactly can you buy that checks all those boxes? My wife and I make significantly more than my parents did, inflation adjusted, when they bought their AU Park house and we are nowhere near being able to afford a SFH in that neighborhood or any neighborhood that checks even half of those boxes. [/quote]

You’re absolutely right, and it’s why so many millennials feel downwardly mobile. But what you’re missing is that DC was a much crappier and more dangerous city. You can have all that now in Baltimore but you don’t want to live there. [/quote]

Was AU Park "dangerous and crappy" though? Bethesda (where prices were roughly similar)? North Arlington? Of course not - I grew up there, I know.  I'd gladly let Shaw or Columbia Heights (where I never go anyway) get crappy again in exchange for an affordable house in Upper NW exactly the way it was in the 80s.

And of course I don't want to live in Baltimore. It's an insane commute to DC and a completely different city, not comparable at all.  If Baltimore had the jobs and pay and transit and museums and theaters and concert venues and restaurants of DC I'd gladly live there, but it doesn't even come close so it's a completely irrelevant comparison.  [/quote]

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