Takes 30min in the morning, an hour in the afternoon. Usually home by 5. Have dinner with the family and do bedtime and bath. It's not the ideal commute but it's been working. |
https://www.redfin.com/MD/Capitol-Heights/3905-Alton-St-20743/home/10620983 Boom! I just found your next house and didn't even charge you 3%. Don't worry about the area as every area inside the beltway and anywhere near a metro will be amazing in a couple of years according to DCUM |
| I work in Suitland and live in Arlington, but the majority of people I work with live in Calvert County. You definitely get a lot more for your money out there. |
Where is her Kindergartener going to go to school? |
The PP was being facetious |
| What companies and agencies are located in Suitland? |
| My good friend lives in Crofton and works at the Census. |
The zoned school is Bradbury Heights Elementary. |
The Census Bureau and Andrews Air Force base is nearby. |
Me too! Really a pretty good commute. But federal salary doesn't go far unless you buy in so Arlington. |
You didn't answer the question, though: where is her dc going to go to school? No normal middle class person would send their kid to a school rated 1 out of 10. |
| It really adds to sprawl and traffic when they locate government agencies in place no white collar employee wants to live. They should put these agencies in Burke or Springfield or Olney or downtown. So much more convenient than trying to figure out where to live while schlepping to Suitland every day. |
So the already prosperous pale areas get richer and the poor areas get to sit back and watch the wealth gap continue grow bigger? All while the established middle class gets to think that it was by their inalienable intelligence and work ethic is why they have their comfortable life and the others simply were not smart enough to get what you have? Do you think the fed is immune to the allure of lower costs of operation and land? Or is it that you think the people in these areas are incapable of actually having a fed job and your comfort and commute should be what the entire government bases its decisions off of? Bradbury produces many fine high functioning kids, they might be the type of kids that make the moms in Lululemon comfortable but many people could care less. |
This makes no sense. You either fine another job, deal with a longer commute or move in the neighborhood. |
That may be true, but at a school with the absolute lowest "score" it can possibly have these kids are succeeding IN SPITE OF their crappy school, not because of it. Regardless, no normal middle class family is going to find a "1" school acceptable for their child. |