Where would you live for 1M

[Anonymous]

You have a budget of 1M and you need:

--- a Single Family Home
---- at least 4 bedrooms
---- Good to Great Schools
---- Willing to renovate, but not a total gut
--- Tolerable 1 day a week commute to DC

Where do you buy? and why?

[Anonymous]

North Bethesda in bounds for Walter Johnson high school.

I live in a 1.5M+ neighborhood close to downtown Bethesda, in bounds for Bethesda Chevy Chase high school, and one of my children goes to a special program at Walter Johnson. We also know students from Whitman. WJ is by far my preferred choice, in that the Principal and core teachers are excellent, they offer a ton of APs, the student body is generally studious but not all lily white or all wealthy, and there is a strong special needs team. Whitman is more pressure-cooker/white/wealthy, BCC is less pressure-cooker and more diverse with fewer APs (they have IB, but American unis tend to misunderstand the IB scoring system for admission purposes).

We're not going to move, since our neighborhood is more pleasant than anything I could find in north Bethesda... but if my ceiling was 1M, I'd do my utmost to find a fixer-upper inbounds for WJ.

[Anonymous]

10:41 again. With the caveat that I would NOT buy something to close to 495 or 270, for 2 reasons:
1. Studies have shown increased respiratory disorders in people who live close to such high-speed routes.
2. There is a confirmed expansion plan of the beltway and 270 in that area. If you see a listing close to those and the price is too good to be true - avoid.

[Anonymous]

20878 North Potomac/Travilah area

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:20878 North Potomac/Travilah area

You mean Gaithersburg

[Anonymous]

crofton, severna park, arnold

waiting for the haters lol.

[Anonymous]

Burke

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have a budget of 1M and you need:

--- a Single Family Home
---- at least 4 bedrooms
---- Good to Great Schools
---- Willing to renovate, but not a total gut
--- Tolerable 1 day a week commute to DC

Where do you buy? and why?

If you are open to private schools, I’d do Baltimore or Baltimore County near Ruxton, Stoneleigh, Towson or Homeland.
Charming homes, well within your price range (for most of those neighborhoods), access to family activities, and close enough to DC for a 1x a week commute. You could also take the train in versus driving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:20878 North Potomac/Travilah area

You mean Gaithersburg

No I mean exactly what I said Dipsh-t. NP is census designated area, not something I made up and telling a person "Gaithersburg" is too wide of an area.

[Anonymous]

OP I think you need more criteria. For me, almost anything is tolerable 1 day a week. I mean a 3 hour flight is tolerable one day a week.

[Anonymous]

20171. Easy ride in on the Silver line. Great community. Fits your budget and other criteria.

[Anonymous]

Close-in Silver Spring, 20910.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have a budget of 1M and you need:

--- a Single Family Home
---- at least 4 bedrooms
---- Good to Great Schools
---- Willing to renovate, but not a total gut
--- Tolerable 1 day a week commute to DC

Where do you buy? and why?

If you are open to private schools, I’d do Baltimore or Baltimore County near Ruxton, Stoneleigh, Towson or Homeland.
Charming homes, well within your price range (for most of those neighborhoods), access to family activities, and close enough to DC for a 1x a week commute. You could also take the train in versus driving.

Open to, yes. Afford, no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have a budget of 1M and you need:

--- a Single Family Home
---- at least 4 bedrooms
---- Good to Great Schools
---- Willing to renovate, but not a total gut
--- Tolerable 1 day a week commute to DC

Where do you buy? and why?

If you are open to private schools, I’d do Baltimore or Baltimore County near Ruxton, Stoneleigh, Towson or Homeland.
Charming homes, well within your price range (for most of those neighborhoods), access to family activities, and close enough to DC for a 1x a week commute. You could also take the train in versus driving.

Open to, yes. Afford, no.

The public schools in those neighborhoods are also excellent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have a budget of 1M and you need:

--- a Single Family Home
---- at least 4 bedrooms
---- Good to Great Schools
---- Willing to renovate, but not a total gut
--- Tolerable 1 day a week commute to DC

Where do you buy? and why?

Look in-bounds for River Hill HS in Howard County. Nice homes available for under 1M.