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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think 13:59 makes a good point.  DC is not an especially great place to be if you're trying to raise a family on one or two not-very-high salaries.  It's easy to look at your friends who live elsewhere and have much nicer houses for half the cost of yours and wonder what the hell you're doing here.  And if you're forced to live in the exurbs and commute a long way to your job, I can see that making someone miserable. [b] The risk of those other places, though, is that the money you put into that cheaper house still might not survive a downturn, and the job markets may be more dependent on a single company or industry.[/b]

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this is exactly why we are still here instead of moved to the city we were supposed to move to (discussed for several years and were supposed to move last year).  My husband has much better job opportunities here.  Moving to the other city would have made him fairly dependent on keeping a job at one place, and who needs that kind of stress?  If the economy weren't so crappy, picking up and moving wouldn't be so difficult.  But employment and home values keep a lot of people in one place for much longer than they would like.  It made more sense to us to stay here with the better employment opportunities which in turn made paying the bills including mortgage easier even if it meant living with the cost of living that makes it hard to live here sometimes.  I'm not a hater or whiner - I actually prefer this area to most other places and have friends here and all of that.  We are happy with our lives here for the most part.  I dislike the cost of living and the traffic, but there is not much we can do about it.  At least we know we are both employable here and can continue to pay our bills.

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