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homes will rise by only 312.000 This has driven middle income Washington area families to go so far as Pennsylvania and West Virginia to find affordable housing, according to a Washington Post analysis. This flow of human beings is only prevented from settling in moderate income housing in Rappahannock County by its zoning laws.
At the same time, the babyboomer generation, born 1944, 1945 and 1946, will be reaching retirement over the next several years, selling valuable homes in the Washington area and in many cases seeking rural and small town life in Virginia.
While Prince William. Loudoun and now Fauquier counties have ballooned, and fast growth has reached around to Warren County and the Shenandoah Valley, Rappahannock has remained rural. In 2003, the population of the 267 square mile county was estimated at 7,110, a little over 30 percent of the 222,000 population
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