Anonymous wrote:Indian Spring.

Ha, me too!

Indian Spring.

GS-15 and non-profit (formally a contractor) in Bethesda now having owned a home pre-bubble in Annandale. We considered Annandale ( outside the Beltway) , Merrifield area, and Arlington in VA and looked at Bethesda, Kensington, and Rockville on the MD side. Co-workers live everywhere though and I think more live in VA than in MD.

For us, it was all about the commute because as it stands even with DH on an earlier schedule and living close to DC it can take from 30 minutes to 80 minutes if there is a broken down car, rain, sunshine, light snow, an accident, road construction etc. It has been useful for me to work in MD so I can get to the kids for the events in the middle of the day or get to them when school closed due to snow and DH took two hours to get home.

I think it is also necessary to consider how long you have been at your GS level/how old you are. Some of the GS-15s could have been a 14 pre-bubble.

Double Feds here. Agency is located in Alexandria.

We live in Falls Church near McLean/Tysons

My co-workers live in:
McLean
Falls Church
Clifton
Burke
Annapolis
Alexandria (Old Town, Telegraph, Kingstown, Rose Hill)
Annandale (outside the beltway)
Bethesda
DC
Springfield
Arlington
Vienna
Merrifield

Yes, we do live among you. I'm in N. Arlington (as are several colleagues) and most are spread throughout Fairfax County and eastern Loudoun (Sterling). I'm six miles from work and don't need to get on any highways.

Very depressing, those last few posts.

08:50, I live in Eastern Loudoun. I SAH and DH is GS-15 and commute is about 40 mins. each way.

Two GS-13s with one kid and another on the way. SFH in the Falls Church part of Fairfax County.

Most of my colleagues live in PG county or the southern suburbs of Baltimore.

Dunn Loring.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC - don't make enough for the 'burbs.

Is this a joke?

Anyway, a lot of us live in condos in central neighborhoods with our school age kids. Many more live in the 'burbs because Federal servants are a large and diverse group with no shortage of both hicks at heart and irrational elbow room addicts who can't purchase it anywhere near civilization on their modest incomes.

No, I think it's to get away from people like you.

Seriously.

Anonymous wrote:It is so depressing that Bowie schools are so awful. I grew up there and everyone's parents were Feds. Many SAHMs w/ fed dad or double Feds, or fed parent and teacher parent. It was a pretty awesome middle class, nice place to grow up. My friends from high school are all well adjusted, successful people and we regularly lament that we'll never be able to have a community like that, with a decent commute (rte 50 or park and ride from new Carrollton metro) with great amenities, areas, affordable pool clubs and county resources ANd affordable housing stock. It just doesn't exist anymore. Middle class people have to sacrifice SO much more than they did 20 years.

I live in Bowie and am certainly not depressed! Two GS-13s and DC in private. Love the commute into DC, love my big beautiful, new, affordable house and new community! LOL

Two Feds here in Arlington.

80 is a crappy walkscore. Have to be in the 90s.

Glover Park