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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've never understand the desire to "house" your car but I also don't waste time worrying about door dings and scratches on the bumper of my rapidly depreciating car.

And since very few DC residents use their garages for actually storing their car I don't seem to be alone in this belief.[/quote]
You my dear have never known the joy of the attached garage in the winter. [/quote]

OP..
Well.. there's a few things here:
1.  Protecting a $6000 1990 Toyota or civic from dings and the elements is a very different decision that protecting your $120k Porsche or Tesla.   Even in between those two extremes, cars can be quite expensive and I never understood people who don't want to take care of such a large investment when they have garage space - I hate seeing a nice car parked on the street while the garage houses some old couches and boxes of junk.  
2.  In our case it is not so much about protecting our "daily driver" (though that's good too) as having space for the DH's fairly serious hobby of fixing up and restoring older cars, race cars, etc.  If not for that hobby, we'd probably consider outdoor (offstreet) parking if the house was otherwise suitable.[/quote]

Why do you want to live in the city? You would like you may be more comfortable in the suburbs. .. maybe some place like Ashburn. [/quote]

OP:  Ha ha.  I am sure my DH who does not have a work commute would be quite happy in Ashburn, or heck, maybe even WVA (and many of his colleagues are encouraging him to live there), and definitely back in Texas which is where we relocated from (for my job).  I, however, will be working centrally in the district in a traditionally 5 day a work week/rush hour commute job.  And his desire to have a usable garage is not greater than our mutual desire for me not to lose hours every week to a super long commute when there are places we could live that are closer to a 30 minute commute.  Given that and how wonderful DC is, we want to embrace city or near-city living and live somewhere walkable where preferably I can commute by public transit or with a quicker drive (preferably public transit though), etc.  But we're trying to do that while maintaining some amenities that are important to us (the other big one being at least a postage stamp sized yards for dogs when the weather is bad and we don't want to walk them).  Luckily schools aren't an issue for us, so at least we don't have to constrain our shopping with that.  Maybe this is all a giant unicorn we're looking for with our budget, but we're trying to make it work... open to suggestions![/quote]

Divorce.[/quote]

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