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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just need to apologize right now! As a MD born and raised girl I never even looked up VA house prices. I now have to move to VA and wow. The prices you all have been paying for mediocre housing is crazy. I thought we had it bad and apparently we don’t. House hunting in NOVA has been depressing this far. [/quote]

Depends on where in VA.  Mclean, yes.  Herndon, no.  [/quote]

Ew, I'd never pay the prices right now for a home in Herndon. It's such an armpit of VA like Sterling, VA.

If I'm paying $900k+, I want in McLean, Loudoun, or somewhere like that. [/quote]

Herndon, Loundon? They are basically the same. Far out hinterland. [/quote]

But I have an awesome brand new McMansion and only had to fix the replace the foundation and roof not to mention a 2 hour commute in bumper to bumper traffic.[/quote]

45 mins for Herndon, but whatever you want to believe, kid.[/quote]

45 minutes* assuming no traffic whatsoever, while paying for the toll road, while paying for 66 (or qualifying for HOV).

Real world, at least an hour, toll-free closer to 1:20.  [/quote]

Yeah and that's "45" minutes to the entrance to the parking garage in DC. Not including 15 minutes to park and get up to my office.
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And don't forget paying for the garage!

Toll road is what, $5 each way? 66 is variable, but let's call it $8 on average. Parking is another $20, so $46 every day, or $966 a month.

For almost $1,000 you could have just paid the extra to buy a place that's not Herndon.  [/quote]

Fair points, I guess, but I live in Herndon and ride metro. So it's $5 for parking at Wiehle-Reston, a 42 minute train ride that drops me at Metro Center, 1 block to work, and $12 for Metro round-trip.  So $17/trip in pre-tax dollars.  I will admit it takes me 10 minutes total to drive from my kid's daycare and park in the station, then about another 4 minutes to get to the platform.  And I get to work almost that entire time, so don't waste my workday in traffic. [/quote]

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