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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi OP, I am poster 12:48 wo has lived both in RTP in NC and in the DC area currently. Some questions...

Do you already live in DC or have you spent a large amount of time in the DC area? Have you tried to take the metro from around the are you would be living into DC or drive into DC?

Have you read this current thread on DCUM? It may prove to be informative: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/587750.page

My experience has been that the DC area offers (1) jobs (2) cultural opportunities. The downsides are (1) traffic / transportation (2) sucky mean people, who are probably mean and sucky because we are competing for limited resources for people who make under 150k or so a year.

My experience was the the Raleigh / Durham area of NC offered: (1) easy driving conditions, compared to DC (2) lower cost of living for higher quality lifestyle and greater ability to attend cultural events. The downsides were (1) super competitive job market (2) current political situation. There are lots of refugees from the DC area there.

Here, in the DC area, we use most of our money to pay mortgage and occasionaly brave the using the Metro to go to cultural events and museums. My friends who have kids never go to DC, and when they do they drive--it's cheaper than paying for their family to take the Metro. [/quote]

OP people on this board go ape over Raleigh/Durham as this great exit, and it's nice enough. But you said abc, near Greensboro which is way more southern and typical of NC.  It sounds like DH is getting a non-tenure staff stats job at a small liberal arts college in the sticks of NC? That seems pretty dead end and if anything happens and his job is cut you will have to move. If it's tenure track it might worth sticking it out, but for small no where college lateral options even with moving may be small

PP is right, DC has lots and lots of jobs. That's about its main draw. I know some stats folks in fed govt and they have nice $130k paycheck so some growth there. Also I think you will find many more piano clients in DC region -- I know in my small southern town no one took piano!

Tough choice. Which job does DH like best?[/quote]

It's a tt position. Dh prefers a university that goes to PhD level. [/quote]

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