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Well I'm the poster who lives in Lorton, and I chose it because:
A.) Better schools 
B.) Bigger yard
C.) Less overall local congestion because it's a newer area and roads are better planned. 
D.) I hate metro and Lorton allows DH and I to commute via VRE or Express Bus, [b]slugging[/b], etc. 
E.) Jobs in DC are both close to 14th Street bridge, so close to VA side of the the city.

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Different strokes I guess, but I don't know why you'd pick hitchhiking over being on the Metro. That's a pretty damning indictment of the Metro lol.[/quote]

Nobody has died carpooling in these slug lines. On Metro, one cannot say the same. I'm surprised you don't understand why someone would take a cheaper, safer, quicker route to work each day, LOL![/quote]

People have died hitchhiking. Just because someone found a more user-friendly term for [b]hitchhiking[/b] doesn't mean it's not the same thing.

I wasn't even talking about the safety issue, I just think that it's bizarre that people justify it as something normal - and don't take it as a clue that maybe they're living too far away from their work - if standing at the side of a road until some random person picks them up and having to deal with an unwritten "slug code" of not talking until you're talked to while you're riding in said stranger's car is part of their everyday life. If you can't at least understand why someone would think that I don't know what to tell you...[/quote]

FFS, people can have different opinions. Metro makes me incredibly nauseous, to the point where I have vomited upon getting off the train. Slugging is a way for people to carpool and use the HOV lanes to shorten their commute. It's very popular from Springfield, which is 13 miles from downtown DC, certain areas of Lorton which and is 18 miles from DC, etc and down on 95. Vienna is 16 miles from downtown, so it's not like Lorton or Springfield are so much further away. I mostly ride a bus, but anytime I've slugged it's been in a nicely maintained vehicle with other people just trying to get to or from work. No one is trying to get in a fight, cause chaos, etc like you see on the metro.

Anyhow, the OP wants to take on a nearly $1 million mortgage on a $330k salary. I have that same salary and think that's a lot. But they never indicated where the house was, for all you know it could be in Clifton.
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