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Anonymous wrote:I would choose Dulles or Sterling over Nortth Carolina any day. Your access to DC will not be as limited as some other posters suggest.

+1 some DC residents are so entitled.

Realistically while your kids are young, in a two full time working parent household, you will go to DC once a month, if that. With up to 1 hr or 1 hr plus commutes, just doing a 40-50 hr job sucks up so much time. But later, if you as a music teacher have a short commute, plus maybe don't need to do 40 hrs every soul sucking week, then you might enjoy what DC has to offer more. With 2 young kids and a 45 hr job with 45-70 min commute each way, my life is so confined to work home errands repeat that I have real resentment towards the mortgage and the 9,000/year in real estate property taxes we pay. I live near DC but do not benefit from what DC offers. We save very little due to COL. I was thinking we could be living in Podunk and our daily lives would be the same. Except Tysons mall. At least I have that nearby (sigh).

ps: we live near a outer metro station and now do not even use it--service is too erratic.

NC.

RTP is much less expensive, having lived there and here.

Wish we had never left NC to move here, but the jobs just weren't available for DH there. It's much cheaper to live in NC and catch a flight or train to DC for the cultural events you want. If you are near Raleigh, culture is accessible and you don't have to take a broken down metro train or fight hordes of others to drive / park.

Anonymous wrote:I would choose Dulles or Sterling over Nortth Carolina any day. Your access to DC will not be as limited as some other posters suggest.

+1 some DC residents are so entitled.

I would choose Dulles or Sterling over Nortth Carolina any day. Your access to DC will not be as limited as some other posters suggest.

I used to like NC but the Koch brothers have bankrolled a takeover of the state by right-wing Republicans who get massive amounts of money to spend on campaigns. It's the political equivalent of the pharma companies who flooded states like Florida, Kentucky and West Virginia with prescription drugs. Stick with VA. Ashburn may be cookie-cutter but the schools are good and the overall local economy is much better.

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Anonymous wrote:North Carolina hands down. If the choice was DC vs NC I'd choose DC. I prefer walkabikity. However, Dulles is similar to NC and there isn't any advantage to living there. Some of the posters mention "culture" in DC but op isn't choosing between DC and NC. I'm unaware of much culture in Dulles.

These posts are so stupid. Dulles is close to DC.

Really? So as a resident of Dulles you're going to be spending a significant amount of time in DC? Who cares how close it is if most of your life is spent in Dulles?

Yes I work in DC. We take our daughter to the museums frequently. Plenty of people do this.

So you spend a significant amount of your free time commuting.

Not that poster. But don't be such an entitled, clueless asshole. Not everyone has the cash to live in the city. Yes, plenty of people choose the suburbs, and then take advantage of DC's proximity. Feel some gratitude that you can apparently do it. Don't be so nasty to those who choose or have to spend their money differently.

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Anonymous wrote:North Carolina hands down. If the choice was DC vs NC I'd choose DC. I prefer walkabikity. However, Dulles is similar to NC and there isn't any advantage to living there. Some of the posters mention "culture" in DC but op isn't choosing between DC and NC. I'm unaware of much culture in Dulles.

These posts are so stupid. Dulles is close to DC.

Really? So as a resident of Dulles you're going to be spending a significant amount of time in DC? Who cares how close it is if most of your life is spent in Dulles?

Yes I work in DC. We take our daughter to the museums frequently. Plenty of people do this.

So you spend a significant amount of your free time commuting.

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Anonymous wrote:North Carolina hands down. If the choice was DC vs NC I'd choose DC. I prefer walkabikity. However, Dulles is similar to NC and there isn't any advantage to living there. Some of the posters mention "culture" in DC but op isn't choosing between DC and NC. I'm unaware of much culture in Dulles.

These posts are so stupid. Dulles is close to DC.

Really? So as a resident of Dulles you're going to be spending a significant amount of time in DC? Who cares how close it is if most of your life is spent in Dulles?

Yes I work in DC. We take our daughter to the museums frequently. Plenty of people do this.

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Anonymous wrote:North Carolina hands down. If the choice was DC vs NC I'd choose DC. I prefer walkabikity. However, Dulles is similar to NC and there isn't any advantage to living there. Some of the posters mention "culture" in DC but op isn't choosing between DC and NC. I'm unaware of much culture in Dulles.

These posts are so stupid. Dulles is close to DC.

Really? So as a resident of Dulles you're going to be spending a significant amount of time in DC? Who cares how close it is if most of your life is spent in Dulles?

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Anonymous wrote:Where in NC? 86k would be fine to live on, but you have to look at schools, etc.

Burlington

That salary will go much farther there than in Dulles, Va. And Greensboro is just a hop, skip and a jump away. So is Durham and Chapel Hill. I wouldn't choose NC because I am from there and never want to live there again ever, but I think for your situation it is a good choice.

Anonymous wrote:Where in NC? 86k would be fine to live on, but you have to look at schools, etc.

Burlington

Anonymous wrote:North Carolina hands down. If the choice was DC vs NC I'd choose DC. I prefer walkabikity. However, Dulles is similar to NC and there isn't any advantage to living there. Some of the posters mention "culture" in DC but op isn't choosing between DC and NC. I'm unaware of much culture in Dulles.

These posts are so stupid. Dulles is close to DC.

North Carolina hands down. If the choice was DC vs NC I'd choose DC. I prefer walkabikity. However, Dulles is similar to NC and there isn't any advantage to living there. Some of the posters mention "culture" in DC but op isn't choosing between DC and NC. I'm unaware of much culture in Dulles.

Where in NC? 86k would be fine to live on, but you have to look at schools, etc.