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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Price per detached single-family home is a perfectly good, and common, metric.   Great Falls and McLean typically are at the top.  People with more to spend prefer bigger apples. [/quote]

If you're Ted Turner or that Trump kid, yes; bigger is better.  If you are one of the wealthy people that are mature and self-aware, you are going to live in a more right-sized place that meets the needs and lifestyle goals of your family. Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, even Mark Zuckerberg - the thoughtful rich don't need to prove their superiority by wasting money on more house than they need.[/quote]

Huh?  Bill Gates has a 66,000 SF house. Mark Zuckerberg has a multi-million dollar five-bedroom house with a wife and no kids, and spent many more millions buying up surrounding properties for more privacy.  Guess that leaves you with the example of Warren Buffet (sic) and his modest Omaha home, though I doubt you have any clue as to the full extent of his real estate holdings and other investments.

Many homes in real "old money" neighborhoods, as opposed to DC neighborhoods originally built for government workers, are quite spacious.  Think Grosse Pointe, Shaker Heights, Larchmont, Bala Cynwyd, etc.   Sounds like it bothers you that many purchasing expensive homes in this area have no desire to live where you do, and see people like you as pretentious and boring, not "mature and self-aware." [/quote]

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