>Certainly here in DC, a couple is expected to "move up" to a single-family in the outer 'burbs when their family grows. Yep, I'm in DC too, and happen to live

>Certainly here in DC, a couple is expected to "move up" to a single-family in the outer 'burbs when their family grows. Yep, I'm in DC too, and happen to live in a condo. There's lots of townhomes near me, but it amazes me how many people willingly move out to Haymarket or Warrenton to buy an McMansion and then drive 2+ hours/day, mostly sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic on I-66. Now the government has cut down all the trees and dug everything up around that highway so they can widen it, which of course isn't going to help one iota. >It's all quite silly. And I say that having bought the single family in my 20s, hated it, sold it in my early 40s to go back to a TH. Now I walk to work, shorter drive to pretty much everything when needed, less maintenance. I'm much happier. Interesting: you sound a lot like me.