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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Plus 0-20 minutes waiting for the train each way, so 60-80 minutes each way, or 2-3 hours commuting per day.

And most of us don't have the luxury of counting our commuting hours as work, regardless of any work that may or may not get done, so that part is completely irrelevant. Unless you're saying you work your full 8 hours in addition to the work you do on your commute, in which case, congratulations on giving your employer free labor. Not sure I'd be too proud of that myself. [/quote]

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