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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread originally started as "how do you afford DC." Then it morphed into "convince me to move away from a dirt-cheap area that I love."

I give up. [/quote]

To be more precise, "Show me how you afford to live a decent life in DC, because when I run the numbers it looks as though we'll be totally poverty-stricken, live in a slum, and have to dig in the sofa cushions to take Metro to the great free/cheap stuff."

I used to know how to live in DC, because my salary bore some relationship to my housing costs.  Now it just seems wildly abstract.  We're packing now.  How are we going to make this work?

[b]PS - If you live in one of the most expensive cities in the country, everywhere else is not "dirt cheap."  It's, like, normal to be able to buy a house for double-ish your annual income.[/b]  [/quote]

Having always lived in one or another of the world's more expensive cities, I'd say it's "normal" to live in cities with high property values. Dirt is indeed cheap outside of cities.[/quote]

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