If you had $1,000,000 budget for a home, work in DC and desire a short cummute, and cannot afford

[Anonymous]

Don't let 21:49 scare you off with the red-herring out-of-state tuition boogeyman. UVa is known for having one of the highest priced out-of-state tuitions in the country (as a cash-cow tool for the state), if not THE highest. It's misleading. At William and Mary, for one example, a Falls Church resident would pay $5400 for tuition and a DC resident would pay $5482 for tuition.

U. of Md is $12K for DC residents or $6,500 for Md. residents. To attend U. Wisconsin-Madison would cost essentially nothing for tuition; U. Michigan is $7K for year for DC residents or $5,700 for in-state; U. of Washington would be $12K for a DC resident or $10K for a Seattle resident.

Point being, nobody but California is giving their residents outright free tuition. Even the in-state residents of states with famous U.'s need to pay a nice sum to attend, and it's typically not that much less than a DC resident would pay with the DCTAG credit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't let 21:49 scare you off with the red-herring out-of-state tuition boogeyman. UVa is known for having one of the highest priced out-of-state tuitions in the country (as a cash-cow tool for the state), if not THE highest. It's misleading. At William and Mary, for one example, a Falls Church resident would pay $5400 for tuition and a DC resident would pay $5482 for tuition.

U. of Md is $12K for DC residents or $6,500 for Md. residents. To attend U. Wisconsin-Madison would cost essentially nothing for tuition; U. Michigan is $7K for year for DC residents or $5,700 for in-state; U. of Washington would be $12K for a DC resident or $10K for a Seattle resident.

Point being, nobody but California is giving their residents outright free tuition. Even the in-state residents of states with famous U.'s need to pay a nice sum to attend, and it's typically not that much less than a DC resident would pay with the DCTAG credit.

Actually, tuition and fees at a University of California campus are over $16K per year for state residents now. California State University system campuses have much lower fees, but full-time study (over 6 units a semester) is still more than $4K a year.

[Anonymous]

Ditto 14:30. I love me some California, but their state budget (and hence public university system) is screwed. They tried to make professors take furlough earlier this year - I'd stay away. It's too bad that they're in such a financial mess.

[Anonymous]

AU Park without a doubt. You'll get one of the nicer houses in the hood for $1 million, its an AMAZING community and Janney is a fantastic school.

[Anonymous]

Across the road in North Cleveland Park -- love, love, love being by Tenley. Stuff for kids of ALL ages to do, that's safe, so you don't fret about where your child is/what he or she is doing out of desperate boredom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:20817 is the part of Bethesda to avoid if you want close-in, short commute, near Metro, etc. Stick with 20814 and 20816.

This is incorrect. 20817 can be at Greentree Road, just across from NIH and adjacent to Suburban Hospital. 1 mile to Bethesda metro, near Medical Center, and "reverse commute" up to Grosvenor (sp).