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[quote=Anonymous]The median price of a house in the DC metro region is 475,00.  If two members of a household are GS 13s (and chances are one would go higher at least eventually) then they might have a 190,000 income.

That fed famly might pay 2400 PITI for that median home.

I'm not honestly seeing the problem of feds affording a home.  Do they automatically win a home in Bethesda? Nope.  Will they be able to buy in Georgetown?  Probably not.  But that's been out of range for a while now.

DC has a pretty darn good job market now.  This metro region exists because of that.  I don't see the job market becoming terrible any time soon.

Also, I love living here.  I can't stand the traffic, true, but my neighborhood is getting more and more walkable amenities by the week.  And I have walking trails and movie theaters.  Maybe five of each within a mile or so.  And 20 museums within two miles.

Life is good here.  I lived in a great suburb in the South as a kid.  What did that get me compared to here?  Better chain stores closer to my house.  A big yard.

I'll take a cosmopolitan, educated populace and a more dense city with world class museums over Kansas any day.

I don't expect it to come cheap either.  But honestly, what I paid to buy in this city, and what's it's going for now?  I'm not convinced it's overpriced for what I get.[/quote]

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