Correct, the late 70's is when home builders started transition to building larger and then mini mansions instead of 1600- 2100 sqft homes...the exedious of Minnisotans to Texas.
Mini mansions is the norm for housing starts in Texas.
Heavy recruiting of corporate moves fed the housing market as transplants found that their Northern wage could buy much more here, on top of the pay increase for the move.
*If you fled your failed state for economic advantage in Texas, then don't vote your failed state ways.
Yes.
This has been happening for decades.
Every teacher, every state and federal employee here in NJ that I know, retires and moves down south (NC is the most prominent place but Florida too). NJ is too expensive. Then they move down south and proceed to vote for what they escaped (as long as the politician is a dem).
We can’t continue to live here. It’s too expensive. My husband wants to move to Florida (and the move, wherever may happen soon since his company is chaos now). I couldn’t move when my parents were alive and I can’t move now because of my kids. Sure, I’ll move, as long as I can see my kids daily or weekly or my grandkids. Sure I’ll move, but now I have medical benefits so I ain’t retiring until I qualify for medicare, lol.
One of my daughters just bought a home in our town...affluent area...I tried to discourage her but they wanted to live and both work here.
We are a close family. We like spending time together. I can’t imagine not seeing my kids daily or weekly. My parents have died but I still have family here. We host Christmas Eve dinner...I can’t imagine moving from here. Told my husband, I’ll move as long as I can come back at least once a month.
I look around my house and still can’t believe I live here. I grew up in a tiny row home in South Philly. Married and lived in an apt in DC then an Apt in this town then a townhouse then this house. This is my family home, where we raised our kids, and I can’t imagine leaving it. It’s not a McMansion but it’s huge compared to what I grew up in. I used to walk down the stairs every day and say I can’t believe I live here.
Sometimes I forget, we have been so very blessed and worked so hard for this.It’s not a McMansion or magazine style house but it’s huge and ours and so many memories here.
My husband says we can’t live here because it’s too expensive and I get that but how can we move? I can’t leave my home, my kids’ home. And I hate living in NJ!
I think I finally understand my Mom’s adversion to giving up her home in south philly to move in with us.My daughter and son in law just bought a home a few blocks from us. I really can’t imagine moving out of state now. I want to be close when they have babies and watch the babies when they go to work. Now I can’t imagine leaving NJ. Ugh.
I wonder about the “mini mansion or McMansion” term. I live in a 2500+ sq ft home but it’s small compared to what I see around here...it’s an older home, built in 1970 or so and with a basement (now finished). But, it’s not huge comparatively, or two story foyer, etc. The kitchen and other rooms were updated 8 years before we bought so I guess it’s only 26 years old in some rooms (and we updated the MBR bath and powder room but the hall bath is still 1970 lol).
My daughter and son in law just bought a home in our town. Split level, 1600 Sq ft. And they paid $17,000 more than we did for our 2500+ sq ft home in a nicer neighborhood. We could sell our house for close to $400,000 now.
Also, for the last 5 or so years, I’ve seen many For Sale signs and looking online, many are foreclosures.