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Why Baby Boomers May Bust the Housing Market
The Wall Street Journal ^ | January 16, 2008 | Lauren Baier Kim

Posted on 01/18/2008 5:08:33 PM PST by Lorianne

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To: Dianna

OK, if its too late to stop them, send them on, they’ll be welcome.


81 posted on 01/21/2008 4:54:03 PM PST by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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OK, if its too late to stop them, send them on, they’ll be welcome.

Aw, thanks! Are there any liberals around? My dad has no one to argue with since he retired. Now he just rants and raves and gets aggravated because my mom and I agree with him.

82 posted on 01/21/2008 5:07:45 PM PST by Dianna
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Yeah, libs are most everywhere, but East Tennessee is pretty heavily conservative. Now if they’re headed to west Tennessee, that’s like a whole other state with libs all over the place.


83 posted on 01/22/2008 4:22:51 PM PST by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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To: Lorianne

A lot of them have already bailed from my hood. In truth, not many of the seem to have ever arrived in the first place. It sort of went straight from Greatest Generation and Silent Generation to Xers. I think most of the boomers in this metro area tended to go more for the larger McMansion type homes from the get go, the hood where I live is a hodge podge from early 1900s to preset, mostly so called “mid 20th century.”


84 posted on 01/22/2008 7:16:19 PM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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This is what I’ve been saying all along. During the last great housing recession in the early 1980’s, the boomers were still raising families, and needed those three, four, and five bedroom homes. Now, they can get by with one or two bedrooms quite comfortably, as long as there’s a family room, or den. They’re not going to be shoring up the prices of the McMansions like they used to.


85 posted on 01/22/2008 7:49:35 PM PST by hunter112 (With Fred gone, our best hope is for a compromise candidate from a brokered convention.)
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