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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Check your privilege.

Most couples don't have the typical DCUM HHI. They afford townhouses in the exurbs on TWO salaries so they can raise their children. Most Americans can never aspire to DCUM salaries.

Shame on you. I despise posters like you. [/quote]

Relax hombre. They didn't voice their opinion..they simply asked why people buy on the basis of 2 incomes..And they are not wrong. A lot of us can't see ourselves living in normal "basic" homes. [/quote]

It took our 2 incomes to buy the most basic house available in the area. [b]Truth is no one is building truly basic houses,[/b] but  small, well designed SFHs are something our country definitely needs. Sorry but crowded stacked townhouses with no trees or access to outdoors suck.

Many promotions and a divorce later, it worked out because me and the kids got to stay in the “basic” house while ex traveled and worked. But our 80s house is not truly basic, it is merely basic compared to the 90s and beyond McMansions etc that followed.[/quote]

Not only is nobody building basic houses, but the small, basic houses that do exist aren't even affordable because land in the DC area is so expensive that the actual structure on it is basically a rounding error.

It's why people who say "Well ackshually houses are as affordable today as they were in the past, it's just that people demand more square footage" piss me off to no end. No, we're not "demanding" more square footage, builders have decided reasonably sized homes aren't profitable enough and refuse to build them. Just because a 6,000sf house works out to be $200/sf doesn't make the $1.2MM price affordable. [/quote]

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