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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, you don't start in McLean/Arlington

you buy a condo/th and then trade up

or you buy near VRE where you can get a SFH even today for around 550kish in a good school district with a mortgage around 2500ish which should be doable for most folks[/quote]

Oh, no condos do not allow you to trade up. Unless you bought before the boom; they in fact are the only housing stock NOT to recover some of the housing bust.
Living near the VRE can be nice, but you are the mercy of a pretty inflexible schedule. I have friends who live near a station and work at the l'enfant, but it doesn't work for them since they can't return early enough to pickup from daycare.  Don't pretend VRE is metro; it's not even LIRR.

And you are totally screwed if your job moves. If it is not near a VRE station, switching to metro is very costly in time. It makes a lot more sense to simply live near job centers and be able to easily commute if your job moves or change jobs. Living in hinterland is a risk, and in fact those properties are depreciating --  my same friend sold their house for barely what they bought it for in 2009 [/quote]

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