Fed and military in Mt Vernon part of Fairfax.

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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.

Gee . . . what words come to mind when I read your post . . . condescending? arrogant? unpleasant? prejudiced? narrow-minded? Actually, all of them! Hope you're not representative of your neighborhood!

No, I'm not. My neighbors probably wouldn't say it... they'd just think it silently.

But they have also spent their limited resources on location over excess space.

Actually, I'm laughing that I've got a SFH walkable to restaurants, movies, parks, etc., and paid probably 1/2 of what you paid for your 1000 SF condo.

I'm laughing because this so-called fabulous neighborhood is probably in a butt-ugly suburb where "walkable" just means there is a sidewalk. If your home was really so cheap, you must have to walk along the edges of endless parking lots and strip malls as traffic whizzes past. No thanks.

One GS-15, other adjunct professor, $660K house in McLean

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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.

Gee . . . what words come to mind when I read your post . . . condescending? arrogant? unpleasant? prejudiced? narrow-minded? Actually, all of them! Hope you're not representative of your neighborhood!

No, I'm not. My neighbors probably wouldn't say it... they'd just think it silently.

But they have also spent their limited resources on location over excess space.

Actually, I'm laughing that I've got a SFH walkable to restaurants, movies, parks, etc., and paid probably 1/2 of what you paid for your 1000 SF condo.

Fed here - Arlington

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Anonymous wrote:GS-15 and GS-14 McLean. Bought in 2010 for 999K - first (and last) home.

Just curious, how did you save up the down payment? Did you have $$$ private careers before going into the govt?

Their combined income is probably in the $300k range. Do you ppl know what a GS-15/14 at certain agencies make??

But the question was how did they save up for a down payment on this first home purchase.

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Anonymous wrote:GS-15 and GS-14 McLean. Bought in 2010 for 999K - first (and last) home.

Just curious, how did you save up the down payment? Did you have $$$ private careers before going into the govt?

Their combined income is probably in the $300k range. Do you ppl know what a GS-15/14 at certain agencies make??

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown. East village.

Hi trust fund baby.

Jeeezzusss! Furthest thing from the truth. DH was in private sector/self-employed first---making the $300k+ . I am GS-14 stepped out making $145k. We bought the house in 2004. We both came from modest backgrounds, no inheritance, trust funds, etc.

Two feds now with a second house in a different neighborhood that cost a lot more than the first one.

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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.

Must depend on the agency--I have been in government jobs for 15 years and can only think of one coworker with kids who lived in the city (and it was a divorced dad who moved downtown after the divorce). Tons and tons of burb families though.

Anonymous wrote:GS-15 and GS-14 McLean. Bought in 2010 for 999K - first (and last) home.

Just curious, how did you save up the down payment? Did you have $$$ private careers before going into the govt?

One GS 14, one GS 11. Two kids. Public schools. SFH in Silver Spring.

GS15 and SAHP + baby. We rent a small apartment in Alexandria and are completely confused as to where to buy.

DH and I are both GS-15s. We live on the Hill.

Two USG income family but on a different payscale so I do not know our GS equivalent. SFH in S Arlington

Single Fed in Anacosta condo, GS-11