Moira Ritter is a staff writer for Homes.com, covering the U.S. housing market with a passion for finding ways to connect real estate with readers' everyday lives, especially fellow Gen-Zers. Though she's a 20-something who has never owned a house, Moira regularly daydreams about her future home: A big house that looks like it's straight out of a Nancy Meyers movie. Raised between the bustling city of Charlotte and the calm of the North Carolina mountains, she settled in Washington, D.C., after moving to attend Georgetown University.