Every redneck trailer and even log cabin in flyover country, generally has a washer and dryer, and most people consider it an absolute essential bit of life. Our FIRST purchase moving into a new house... washer and dryer.
Only in NYC and DC, I guess, is it a ‘status symbol’.
No wonder they’re insane, they’re just out there totally on the fringe. Can’t have washers and dryers in apartments? What numbskull thought of that? Money-grubbing landlords, that’s who. Sheesh.
Actually, if there is blame, place it on the architects who designed many of these buildings long before washing machines were a common household appliance. My building was built in 1929.