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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is people want everything.  They want the really high salaries DC affords but they also want the spacious yard with the backyard and schools in the suburbs.  There you have your long commute.  You could have purchased a smaller home/condo in DC or you could have pursued a job/career in Nowhereville, Maryland or Virginia, made less money and still probably have your house with the yard but with less discretionary income to do other things.

I am in the same boat so am not trying to be antagonistic.  If I had to do it over, I probably would have stayed in or much closer to D.C.  The first time I commuted from my new home in Maryland to my job in D.C., I cried.[/quote]

I realize this is DCUM but many of us posting live in VA and MD. This is a large area with multiple urban/suburban areas. The fed is not centralized in any area, so two feds can be on completely different sides of the beltway, for example, one working at NIH and the other at MARC center. My DH and I are posted in Alexandria and Beltsville. There is no reasonable commute for either of us if we stay towards one job, and the middle is the suburbs. We also don't have very high salaries.

The high salaries/executive line is ridiculous. That's not even a significant percentage of the working population in this area. And by and large, those are the people actively voting against increasing public transit so that those of us without high salaries can commute effectively and at a lower cost.

Companies are in a pretzel because right now I save 500-600/month on commuting costs (gas and aftercare) as I will work 6-230, do school pickup for my elementary school kid, and then log in during the afternoon or early evening to f/u on anything from 230-5/6. If looking for another job, the salary would need to include an increase PLUS the 500/mo and if my company reduces WFH then I'll look for a higher salary.

Companies aren't upset about remote work, companies are upset that employees have more choice(s). [/quote]

Yes. Exactly. Thank you. We're not all BigLaw people who can live on one salary 10 minutes from the office. Some of us actually earn statistically average incomes, so we need two parents working in this area, and we don't all have our pick of jobs in downtown DC or a specific suburb. We actually do have to make compromises - if one of you works in Frederick and the other's in Arlington, commuting is just going to be awful for one or both of you. Telework gives us hours of our lives back, plus costs of transportation and longer childcare hours. It doesn't have to be so bad. [/quote]

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