{"id":77768,"date":"2018-01-23T17:02:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T10:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/downsizing-baby-boomers-face-key-decision-is-it-better-to-rent-or-to-buy\/"},"modified":"2018-01-23T17:06:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T10:06:01","slug":"downsizing-baby-boomers-face-key-decision-is-it-better-to-rent-or-to-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/downsizing-baby-boomers-face-key-decision-is-it-better-to-rent-or-to-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Downsizing baby boomers face key decision: is it better to rent or to buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAfter 20 years of a car-centric lifestyle in a large house in Bethesda, Maryland, and nearly a decade of lobbying her husband, Roxanne Littner achieved her goal of moving into the District of Columbia.
\n\u201cMy husband was more attached to the house than I was, and wanted to stay longer, but when we had a plumbing issue and the basement flooded, I put my foot down and set a date to sell our house in a year,\u201d Littner says. \u201cWe started looking downtown at different neighbourhoods and…
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
\nRead more…Downsizing baby boomers face key decision: is it better to rent or to buy?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After 20 years of a car-centric lifestyle in a large house in Bethesda, Maryland, and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-kek","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64176,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/housing-recovery-suffers-but-dont-blame-the-millennials\/","url_meta":{"origin":77768,"position":0},"title":"Housing recovery suffers, but don't blame the millennials","date":"August 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The housing recovery is suffering partly because baby boomers aren't downsizing as they used to--it's getting too expensive.\r \r Source : cnbc.com\r Read more...Housing recovery suffers, but don't blame the millennials","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":44768,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/baby-boomers-dont-deserve-to-be-punished-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":77768,"position":1},"title":"Baby boomers don\u2019t deserve to be punished | Letters","date":"February 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r I was incensed when I read Phillip Inman\u2019s article Baby boomers, pay your dues (14 February). 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