s/o where do the fed families live?

[Anonymous]

Silver Spring.

[Anonymous]

One GS-15, one federal contractor.

Downtown Silver Spring.

[Anonymous]

One fed, one non-fed (but whose salary is based off fed salaries). Essentially one GS13 step 1 and one GS14 step 3. Anyway, we currently rent in Arlington but plan to buy here. We have just been saving money for 5 years to do so. We have one kid in daycare.

[Anonymous]

One gs-14, one gs-13 equivalent. Downtown condo.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC - don't make enough for the 'burbs.

Is this a joke?

Anyway, a lot of us live in condos in central neighborhoods with our school age kids. Many more live in the 'burbs because Federal servants are a large and diverse group with no shortage of both hicks at heart and irrational elbow room addicts who can't purchase it anywhere near civilization on their modest incomes.

Gee . . . what words come to mind when I read your post . . . condescending? arrogant? unpleasant? prejudiced? narrow-minded? Actually, all of them! Hope you're not representative of your neighborhood!

No, I'm not. My neighbors probably wouldn't say it... they'd just think it silently.

But they have also spent their limited resources on location over excess space.

Actually, I'm laughing that I've got a SFH walkable to restaurants, movies, parks, etc., and paid probably 1/2 of what you paid for your 1000 SF condo.

I'm laughing because this so-called fabulous neighborhood is probably in a butt-ugly suburb where "walkable" just means there is a sidewalk. If your home was really so cheap, you must have to walk along the edges of endless parking lots and strip malls as traffic whizzes past. No thanks.

It's me again. Thanks to whoever necro'd this thread.

Walkscore of 80.

No strip malls/massive parking lots or crossing four-lane highways.

I still paid 1/2 of what you paid, and can send my kids to non-terrible public schools.

[Anonymous]

Single GS 15 fed, SFH in Silver Spring.

[Anonymous]

One GS-14, one GS-13, two kids, SFH in downtown SS. Love it. Lots of other Feds on our street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC - don't make enough for the 'burbs.

Is this a joke?

Anyway, a lot of us live in condos in central neighborhoods with our school age kids. Many more live in the 'burbs because Federal servants are a large and diverse group with no shortage of both hicks at heart and irrational elbow room addicts who can't purchase it anywhere near civilization on their modest incomes.

Gee . . . what words come to mind when I read your post . . . condescending? arrogant? unpleasant? prejudiced? narrow-minded? Actually, all of them! Hope you're not representative of your neighborhood!

No, I'm not. My neighbors probably wouldn't say it... they'd just think it silently.

But they have also spent their limited resources on location over excess space.

Actually, I'm laughing that I've got a SFH walkable to restaurants, movies, parks, etc., and paid probably 1/2 of what you paid for your 1000 SF condo.

I'm laughing because this so-called fabulous neighborhood is probably in a butt-ugly suburb where "walkable" just means there is a sidewalk. If your home was really so cheap, you must have to walk along the edges of endless parking lots and strip malls as traffic whizzes past. No thanks.

It's me again. Thanks to whoever necro'd this thread.

Walkscore of 80.

No strip malls/massive parking lots or crossing four-lane highways.

I still paid 1/2 of what you paid, and can send my kids to non-terrible public schools.

Where do you live?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC - don't make enough for the 'burbs.

Is this a joke?

Anyway, a lot of us live in condos in central neighborhoods with our school age kids. Many more live in the 'burbs because Federal servants are a large and diverse group with no shortage of both hicks at heart and irrational elbow room addicts who can't purchase it anywhere near civilization on their modest incomes.

Gee . . . what words come to mind when I read your post . . . condescending? arrogant? unpleasant? prejudiced? narrow-minded? Actually, all of them! Hope you're not representative of your neighborhood!

No, I'm not. My neighbors probably wouldn't say it... they'd just think it silently.

But they have also spent their limited resources on location over excess space.

Actually, I'm laughing that I've got a SFH walkable to restaurants, movies, parks, etc., and paid probably 1/2 of what you paid for your 1000 SF condo.

I'm laughing because this so-called fabulous neighborhood is probably in a butt-ugly suburb where "walkable" just means there is a sidewalk. If your home was really so cheap, you must have to walk along the edges of endless parking lots and strip malls as traffic whizzes past. No thanks.

It's me again. Thanks to whoever necro'd this thread.

Walkscore of 80.

No strip malls/massive parking lots or crossing four-lane highways.

I still paid 1/2 of what you paid, and can send my kids to non-terrible public schools.

Where do you live?

Leesburg. But, I have to make do with a 1970s split-foyer. Oh, the architectural tragedy.

[Anonymous]

Oh yeah, we're both in the GS-12 range.

[Anonymous]

One GS-14, one military O-3, two kids both in daycare. McLean.

[Anonymous]

Burke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC - don't make enough for the 'burbs.

Is this a joke?

Anyway, a lot of us live in condos in central neighborhoods with our school age kids. Many more live in the 'burbs because Federal servants are a large and diverse group with no shortage of both hicks at heart and irrational elbow room addicts who can't purchase it anywhere near civilization on their modest incomes.

Gee . . . what words come to mind when I read your post . . . condescending? arrogant? unpleasant? prejudiced? narrow-minded? Actually, all of them! Hope you're not representative of your neighborhood!

No, I'm not. My neighbors probably wouldn't say it... they'd just think it silently.

But they have also spent their limited resources on location over excess space.

Actually, I'm laughing that I've got a SFH walkable to restaurants, movies, parks, etc., and paid probably 1/2 of what you paid for your 1000 SF condo.

I'm laughing because this so-called fabulous neighborhood is probably in a butt-ugly suburb where "walkable" just means there is a sidewalk. If your home was really so cheap, you must have to walk along the edges of endless parking lots and strip malls as traffic whizzes past. No thanks.

It's me again. Thanks to whoever necro'd this thread.

Walkscore of 80.

No strip malls/massive parking lots or crossing four-lane highways.

I still paid 1/2 of what you paid, and can send my kids to non-terrible public schools.

Where do you live?

Leesburg. But, I have to make do with a 1970s split-foyer. Oh, the architectural tragedy.

Leesburg is so cute. I love that town. Don't let the urban turkeys get you down.

[Anonymous]

GS-15 and non-fed in SFH in Burke. Lots of feds and military here. But almost all the single or married w/o kids feds that I know live in DC.

[Anonymous]

GS 12 and 14, 16th st heights, but moving soon for schools depending on the charter/ lottery results. we will be able to afford 650k and are looking around silver spring, kensington and falls church.