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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What 24 yr old wants to be married with kids anyway?! Your 20's is for building your career. [/quote]

[b]I got married at 23, had my first child at 24. [/b] We bought a home too (new construction started before we married, closed and moved in a few weeks after we married.)  This was in suburban San Diego, similar housing market to DC
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So did my mother (birth control was more complicated back then). But she doesn't put her experience out there as one to be emulated. She ended up divorced with two young children, never had a real career, and never got to live as a single young adult.

I think your advice was reasonable, OP, if a little pessimistic. It is hard to live in DC if you don't have some parental support -- group houses are rare, entry level jobs don't pay much, and it costs money to live the high life. We got by eating free tacos at happy hour. Now a drink is $12 and the tapas ain't free.

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Agreed.

My $5 metrorail one day pass now costs $14.50[/quote]

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