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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where are these smaller starter homes?

I live in 22181-Vienna- and the original mid1950s “starter” homes in 22180 are disappearing monthly - all being razed with enormous homes replacing.

Even a vintage Vienna Woods house is selling for 850k+[/quote]

There are plenty of starter homes in places that you are not willing to live. https://redf.in/uUlxmm
This house is near the VRE. It has an easy commute to DC and Alexandria. [/quote]

Way to miss the point. That’s not a “starter home” for a family with two working parents with DC jobs that want to send their kids to decent schools. That’s a non-starter home. [/quote]

Millennial here, I don't think you understand the concept of a starter home. If you're a millennial as well you're exactly the kind of millennial that is giving the rest of us a bad name.

A starter home is just that - the bottom rung of the property ladder. It's what you can afford at the very beginning, not what you want once you've got school-aged kids. You get the small, outdated house in a bad school district as DINKs in your 20s or early 30s, you cash out the equity for a place in a good elementary school district once you've had a kid and they're 4 or 5, and you do it again in middle or high school and hopefully along the way you've built enough equity and advanced enough in your careers to end up in your dream home.

I get that it sucks that generations before us were able to get houses in good neighborhoods as starter homes, and I absolutely wish we could have even just the same opportunities the boomers had, but that's simply not reality. Unless you're a dual income biglaw/tech couple it's just not feasible in 2025 for regular joe white collar couples to have a starter home in a great neighborhood no matter how much you sacrifice on size or condition. [/quote]

You’re just saying exactly what I said. There is no such thing as a “starter home.” And I don’t actually think people in the olden days actually planned to move every 5 years. [/quote]

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