In 2024, there were more home buyers over the age of 70 in the U.S. than under the age of 35
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Boomers are also asking top dollar for their dated shitholes and then run to a new build in those terrible communities that are springing up everywhere
Why is every new house that is built an ugly monstrosity with no yard? Architecture that drains the soul rather than uplifts it...
Architect schools got infested with Bauhaus and it's been downhill ever since.
No, I'm not joking.
No yard means more indoor space, right? I'd rather have that. Grass requires maintenance, and feels like a waste of a fine personal office or private gym.
I enjoy walking in my yard, grabbing a fresh ripe peach off a tree in the summer, looking at the flowers and vegetables grow, getting fresh air. I couldn't live without having my own land.
To each their own, I guess.
Personally, I prefer my indoors. If I want nature, I'll go somewhere to experience it.
I’m not mad about smaller yards per se, it’s that they rip down every mature tree - in turn destroying animal habitats in order to fit as many houses as they can with absolutely no privacy. I remember seeing communities out west that were placed so close together, you could legitimately high five your neighbors through your windows!
Taking down old trees does feel like a crime of some kind.
This guy is the redditor meme going around where he says he is scared and cries when he sees any nature. Truly a bugman
Fair point.
yep, i cannot stand those flat roof-ed plain, window-ed, neutral/brown colored, "industrial" designed homes i see how, especially prevalent in Colorado for whatever reason. Who the hell wants to live in a house looks like a dentist office on the inside and a high end strip mall on the outside? cold and sterile.
Why would the owners give a shit? They're not the ones living there. The hab-block is the ideal form of property for rent-seeking. If you wanted to live somewhere fit for a human, you should have been born 70 years ago and just bought the rights to leech off of people who actually work for a living.
The biggest problem in the market is that boomers are holding on to their houses and not downsizing or moving into elderly communities.
yep, it was a strange time that total square footage was at any time, considered oneupmanship rather than a useable home of high quality.
A lot of private retirement communities are a scam as well. They are designed to charge 3-4x market rent to eat up any inheritance left within a few years while warehousing the elderly to be abused by illegals.