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Anonymous wrote:I think it is Gen X who owns the McMansions, I sure don't own a McMansion.

Agree - definitely in our neighborhood anyway. It seems like the tail end of the Gen Xers and possibly the front end of the Millennials who are snatching up the McMansions - not Boomers.

The Mills are too smart to be duped into buying useless drywall. Their cynicism may save this country.

+100000

Generation X was frequently derided as the "slacker" generation, but they turned out to be both industrious and the primary buyers of larger homes. At some point the millennials will grow up. The Peter Pan act gets old eventually.

Gen X has retained many of the characteristics they always had and remains markedly different from the boomers. They're still much more cynical than the previous generation, along with other characteristics. Seems a bit absurd to think that millennials will suddenly have a huge personality shift when many of them are already in late 20s/early 30s and their behavior within the workplace has been so noticeably different from previous generations and shows no signs of changing

So, you see a lot of gen xers living in the city, wearing flannel shirts and baby doll dresses while working at Starbucks?

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Anonymous wrote:I think it is Gen X who owns the McMansions, I sure don't own a McMansion.

Agree - definitely in our neighborhood anyway. It seems like the tail end of the Gen Xers and possibly the front end of the Millennials who are snatching up the McMansions - not Boomers.

The Mills are too smart to be duped into buying useless drywall. Their cynicism may save this country.

+100000

Generation X was frequently derided as the "slacker" generation, but they turned out to be both industrious and the primary buyers of larger homes. At some point the millennials will grow up. The Peter Pan act gets old eventually.

Gen X has retained many of the characteristics they always had and remains markedly different from the boomers. They're still much more cynical than the previous generation, along with other characteristics. Seems a bit absurd to think that millennials will suddenly have a huge personality shift when many of them are already in late 20s/early 30s and their behavior within the workplace has been so noticeably different from previous generations and shows no signs of changing

It's not as absurd as attributing to an entire generation a set of preferences associated primarily with a subset of that generation. If the demand for the larger homes in the suburbs didn't exist you wouldn't see the continued growth in suburbs like Loudoun and Howard Counties, or entire new subdivisions of homes priced over $1.5 million inside the Beltway selling out in months.

I don't want to keep anyone from making pronouncements based on their own, extended navel-gazing, or faux-surveys of Millenials responding to loaded questions, but sometimes actually looking at market information might be informative.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it is Gen X who owns the McMansions, I sure don't own a McMansion.

Agree - definitely in our neighborhood anyway. It seems like the tail end of the Gen Xers and possibly the front end of the Millennials who are snatching up the McMansions - not Boomers.

The Mills are too smart to be duped into buying useless drywall. Their cynicism may save this country.

+100000

Generation X was frequently derided as the "slacker" generation, but they turned out to be both industrious and the primary buyers of larger homes. At some point the millennials will grow up. The Peter Pan act gets old eventually.

Gen X has retained many of the characteristics they always had and remains markedly different from the boomers. They're still much more cynical than the previous generation, along with other characteristics. Seems a bit absurd to think that millennials will suddenly have a huge personality shift when many of them are already in late 20s/early 30s and their behavior within the workplace has been so noticeably different from previous generations and shows no signs of changing

Anonymous wrote:Lol, hystorical properties are the worst. Why would anyone buy something old with layers and layers of bad rescue attempts? Millennials may want small, but they don't want old.

I dunno, probably people who can spell "historical"

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Anonymous wrote:I think it is Gen X who owns the McMansions, I sure don't own a McMansion.

Agree - definitely in our neighborhood anyway. It seems like the tail end of the Gen Xers and possibly the front end of the Millennials who are snatching up the McMansions - not Boomers.

The Mills are too smart to be duped into buying useless drywall. Their cynicism may save this country.

+100000

Generation X was frequently derided as the "slacker" generation, but they turned out to be both industrious and the primary buyers of larger homes. At some point the millennials will grow up. The Peter Pan act gets old eventually.

Anonymous wrote:People are just tired of the one obsessive poster who complains that every house bigger than hers is an eyesore. The constant over the top derision of large houses is turning into a circus with OP as the main clown. Everyone else is just here to throw food.

Who?

Lol, hystorical properties are the worst. Why would anyone buy something old with layers and layers of bad rescue attempts? Millennials may want small, but they don't want old.

Anonymous wrote:The main thing I got from this thread is there are women who can reach out and touch 40 who believe they're Millennials. That's so cute.

And I think you're sweet to be bothered! Your aging must really get under your skin for a demographic statistic to bother you.

- Nearly 40 by your standards, don't care.

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Anonymous wrote:Once millennials get older and make more money they will buy the mcmansion

Only as a starter home because they're saving up for a nicer home. Expect lots of price reductions on your McMansion and to eventually sell at a deep discount

Yep. You'll notice this in millennials who have the money to buy a mcmansion if they wanted to. The vast majority are avoiding them like the plague and snapping up historical properties.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it is Gen X who owns the McMansions, I sure don't own a McMansion.

Agree - definitely in our neighborhood anyway. It seems like the tail end of the Gen Xers and possibly the front end of the Millennials who are snatching up the McMansions - not Boomers.

The Mills are too smart to be duped into buying useless drywall. Their cynicism may save this country.

+100000

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Anonymous wrote:McMansions appeal to white trash with newfound $, eg, stupid white professional athletes, and all non-whites.

In other words, some "smart" whites with little or no money (e.g, people with degrees, but no real skills) like to whine a lot. Who knew?

Lol -u got 1 thing right: I'm white. But my household income is $2.2 million, dual income, advanced degrees, mid-40's and not even 50% of where our HHI will be in 10 years. We own 11 houses (8 rentals in hot area inDC), a farm in the country, a house on 17 acres on the water on the eastern shore and live in a house in DC prime area that was built in1897- character not crass. What u got? What would you like to compare you white piece of trash?

making all the money in the world while living in your parents' basement? keep daydreaming!

Anonymous wrote:Why buy when you're already living in the basement for free?

Fast forward 20 years from now with Dad dead for 10 years and mom dead for two months, and the three high powered sisters who made something of their lives arrive to boot you out of the basement and each claim their one-quarter of the inheritance.
As a real estate agent, I see this often. Mom and Dad do not leave the house to the basement dweller but all of the siblings in equal shares. The 55 year old basement dweller has about $250,000 in house proceeds and little money Mom had left to live for the rest of his meaningless life (yes, it is usually the failure-to-thrive son who lives in the basement).

Why buy when you're already living in the basement for free?

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Anonymous wrote:Once millennials get older and make more money they will buy the mcmansion

Only as a starter home because they're saving up for a nicer home. Expect lots of price reductions on your McMansion and to eventually sell at a deep discount

Oh well. We still have a ton of money and plan to enjoy our retirement. Guess that means the Millenial kids and the grandkids will get even smaller inheritances.

Good for you! Most people view their home as an investment and would be sad if their house updates actually decreased the value of their home. Enjoy retirement - I hope the money doesn't run out early and you end up wanting to mooch off your family members.

Who said anything about "house updates"? Our home was built with all the amenities we wanted and more.

And, no, our money would not run out, even if the substantial equity we have in our house were to dwindle to nothing due to the imaginary antipathy that everyone is now supposed to harbor towards larger, nicer homes. But I do appreciate your concern (sic).

I think you need to look up how to use sic.

If that's the best you can come up with, it should surprise no one that your housing options are circumscribed and that you are reduced to kvetching about other people's homes.

No, they have a point. If you don't know how to use "sic," there are probably dozens of other things you don't understand.

Also, for as much as you McMansion owners say you love and are proud of your homes, you are obviously deeply insecure about them as some of you have a compulsive need to post frequently in defense of your homes as well as to attempt to denigrate the housing choices of others, but especially when you perceive someone can't afford your showy house.

I enjoy mocking McMansions as an idle, time-passing hobby in the car, a little habit I picked up in college as an architecture minor.

I am not on either side of this fight, however I would say that

- this thread was started in a very condescending fashion by a millenial - you fire a shot and people are going to come back at you

- Most of the 'McMansion (lazy word in my opinion) Owners' aren't there because of architecture, that said, some of it is really bad, but if you notice when you swing at the design of their house, they don't defend the house, they defend the lifestyle

- There is nothing great about the average infill house or 'shitshack' (another lazy word) - it's not like those people hold the architectural high ground - old and brick doesn't make something great architecture and most of those houses were built on a large scale tract basis as well, they aren't all custom homes

If you don't have an unlimited budget you are going to have to make compromises in size, location, design etc - I don't see why it has to be such a vile argument

The main thing I got from this thread is there are women who can reach out and touch 40 who believe they're Millennials. That's so cute.