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[quote=shirirb]Hello forum,

Sorry for the long post-- please bear with me, as we need your help!

My family and I (husband, 2 year-old, and me) are re-locating to DC from Brooklyn, NYC this summer.  We don't know DC very well and would love assistance from the hive mind about housing alternatives.  We're looking for the following, in order of most to least important:

- 3+ bedrooms, 1.5+ baths
- Walkable commercial area (mama needs her coffee fix)
- Under 35 minute rush-hour commute to Columbia, Maryland (where husband will be working)-- we're thinking this means easy access to highway
- Close metro access
- Other young families

We aren't sure whether we will need to rent or buy at this point.  We are keeping our NYC apartment just in case the new gig doesn't work out, so our first thought was renting, but I am not seeing much in the rental market right now.  Ideally, we'd like to rent for under $4500, but doing some quick, back-of-the-envelope math the other day, we realized we would likely spend less than that if we bought something in the 700K-800K range.  Is it a pipe dream to find something in that price range in a neighborhood that fits the above criteria?...

Thanks in advance for any thoughts-- Moving is hard!
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