Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.apartments.com/village-square-west-rockville-md/1f3lzh5/


$1200

NP here, thanks for posting this! Just got a job at NIH and this will be a perfect location for me.

Happy to help. I honestly like the area and for the price? Its perfect. You just have to be open to looking at older buildings.

Anonymous wrote:Columbia Heights, Brookland, Silver Spring, Bowie, Laurel, etc. I would think also in Northern VA near a metro line.

Columbia Heights???? Only if you have a housing voucher...

Anonymous wrote:http://www.apartments.com/village-square-west-rockville-md/1f3lzh5/


$1200

NP here, thanks for posting this! Just got a job at NIH and this will be a perfect location for me.

Anonymous wrote:Columbia Heights, Brookland, Silver Spring, Bowie, Laurel, etc. I would think also in Northern VA near a metro line.

Brookland where? There are not that many apartments in that neighborhood

Columbia Heights, Brookland, Silver Spring, Bowie, Laurel, etc. I would think also in Northern VA near a metro line.

http://www.apartments.com/village-square-west-rockville-md/1f3lzh5/


$1200

Rockville, MD

Its really not that hard if you also have an affordable car and budget.

In PG or the outer burbs such as Prince William and Stafford counties. Or they either have roommates if living in a more expensive area.

Bump!

Kalorama/Adams Morgan area in a 1br basement apartment. The rent is high, but it beats spending almost 1.5 hours one way on metro daily. So glad we moved before metro repairs. That would have turned to 3+ hour daily commute. No thanks.

Also, for what we pay the space is small, but still worth the now 20 to work and in a great location with easy access to much free fun.

It's doable, depends on your priorities. We gave up square footage and sunlight.

I rent a two bedroom condo in Arlington for $1900 a month with all utilities included to a new teacher who makes $47,000 a year and her boyfriend is in grad school and makes about $10,000 as a TA.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:East of the River. Which has some awesome, underrated neighborhoods. But even here, prices are rising steeply. Our home has increased in value by 40% in less than 3 years.

+1 Op, look at Fort Dupont Park, Fort Davis, Randle Heights.

Are those communities Safe?

Probably safer than your current community. Not kidding.

Grossing that salary, then taking out taxes and health insurance, you get to take home about $3400 a month total to live on. Our family rents a shabby little place in Centreville, for the Fairfax schools. We slip deeper into debt each year, just trying to cover basic expenses. Once the kids are out of high school, we're limping off to someplace cheaper.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:East of the River. Which has some awesome, underrated neighborhoods. But even here, prices are rising steeply. Our home has increased in value by 40% in less than 3 years.

+1 Op, look at Fort Dupont Park, Fort Davis, Randle Heights.

Are those communities Safe?

I'm not sure about Randle Heights, but Fort Dupont Park and Fort Davis are quiet communities, surrounded by parkland, with very low crime.

Welcome to Frederick. I'd prefer TJ over Frederick High academically.