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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My fellow DCUmers, please put yourself back in the mindset of a recent college grad.  She wants to live with her friends in Ballston.  Go out to happy hours.  Go to the Clarendon Ballroom or wherever the kids go nowadays.  Meet boys and make poor decisions after the Clarendon Ballroom or wherever the kids go nowadays closes.   When you are 23, social life/boys are the priority.  Not a short commute to work.

I remember looking at apartments in that area with friends in 2000ish when I was young, and it was $700ish/person for 3 of us, so I assume $1100 for 3 people in 2016 is a normal price.  Yes, doing the quick mental math, her rent will be almost 1/2 of her take home pay, after taxes and deductions and retirement, but if she has no student loans or car payment, it is absolutely doable for a 23 year old.

My only advice for her, other than to enjoy being young and living somewhere fun, is to drive to work.  I would rather take the GW Parkway to 495 to 270 to Ballston than deal with metro.[/quote]

OP here. Sorry, just came back to reread everything posted.  So location is really not going to change - Rockville is not an option.  She's either going to live with our parents or live in Arlington where she knows people (not necessarily at THIS house but this is what she has available now).  She has anxiety and she will never survive moving to MD where she knows no one to start a new job, new lifestyle, on her own.  This is a completely separate topic for another day. ;)

I'm just curious about the cost.  This is actually the cheapest she has found among friends of hers - they're all around $1300/1400.  It just feels like a LOT to me but that's because I compare it to the apt DH and I shared post-college that was $700/mo and huge... but that was in 2003.

The commuting issue - just tonight I was talking to her about how she should think about driving.  Google says to take GW Pkwy, 495, 270.  Not sure how bad GW Pkwy is as we don't live near there.
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That's insane.  My mortgage for a whole townhouse is 1400.[/quote]

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