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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meh. I was earning 90k by myself and bought a fixer upper inside DC. It was possible, though those same houses are closer to 500k+ now.

I'm a fed so my salary doesn't go up exponentially like some of you people. I'm happy living in my NE DC neighborhood and sending kids to charter schools. DC is great and I don't have much of a commute at all. It's just a different lifestyle than suburban Atlanta, of course.

I've always thought though that if living in DC meant living in the suburbs I wouldn't bother. The suburbs look the same everywhere but then involve probably commuting and also doubling or tripling your housing costs, and then you're not near any of the things that make DC awesome (which are mostly inside the city itself).[/quote]

Me again.

29 is a great age to be in DC and you'd be making more than many (most?) of the people that age here. (Most young professionals in DC are not married by then either and are working at modestly compensated NGO or Capitol Hill type jobs.) Enjoy a couple years if happy hours and brunches with new friends and buy a condo inside the city. DC is fun at that age.[/quote]

A condo is the city is not going to happen on a 80-90k salary today unless you commit to being extremely house poor.

We lucked out on our fairly modest salaries at the time because we were here at the right time, around the market crash and we bought our first dumpy one bedroom in an up and coming neighborhood, then fixed it up and sold it for a profit and moved out to Old Town at the right time when that was still at least somewhat affordable. But that was unique timing. [/quote]

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