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TheMightyFavog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 11:15 PM Original message |
Can you live in the DC area for 40K a year? |
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Perseid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
1. no idea, but |
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Genevieve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
2. Isn't DC expensive like New York City? nt |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 12:12 PM Response to Reply #2 |
32. It's nowhere NEAR as expensive to live in DC as it is to live in NYC. |
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Genevieve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 12:14 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. Thanks--- |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
3. Not very easily. |
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deadparrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
4. Any way you could live outside the city and commute? |
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AZBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
5. I don't see how. |
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TheMightyFavog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 12:22 AM Response to Original message |
6. Is there links to public transport in the maryland and Virginia burbs? |
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fortyfeetunder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 12:25 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. There are suburban trains in MD and VA |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 09:48 AM Response to Reply #6 |
19. If you're in your 20's live in the city if you can, that's where the "scene" is.. |
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Mutley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 11:57 AM Response to Reply #6 |
28. Marc train would be your best bet. |
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fortyfeetunder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 12:23 AM Response to Original message |
7. Barely. |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 12:49 AM Response to Original message |
9. Prince Georges County in MD... |
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tkmorris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 01:17 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Link to public transport maps |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
10. I think you could if you shared an apartment. |
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tkmorris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 01:07 AM Response to Original message |
11. That's my home town |
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The Inquisitive (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 01:28 AM Response to Original message |
13. it would be a squeeze |
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Aptastik (210 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 02:20 AM Response to Original message |
14. I managed it easily on less 4 years ago |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
15. DC proper? No. PG? Possibly. |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
16. Yes, on a shoe string budget.. |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
17. that depends on your standards as far as living conditions |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
18. i know plenty of peopel who survive in nyc on 30,000 |
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Genevieve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 12:08 PM Response to Reply #18 |
30. That must |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 12:09 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. people can do it. graduate students etc have to. |
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Genevieve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 12:12 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. I know graduate students do it -- but, |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 12:14 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. yes, they typically live in brooklyn and commute to manhattan for work/school |
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Genevieve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 12:16 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. It still must be very difficult for them, though. |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
20. With a roomy perhaps you can live in the district. |
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QueenOfCalifornia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
21. No.... |
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Mutley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 12:13 PM Response to Reply #21 |
34. Listings for housing in the Baltimore area as well. |
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Zavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
22. I made it on $35K, one-bedroom apartment though. |
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bikebloke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 10:17 AM Response to Original message |
23. I'm doing it on a lot less |
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northzax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
24. Sure |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
25. You can, however... |
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LSK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
26. yes, staffers do it all the time |
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Mutley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
27. Yes. |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
29. I did it several years ago on $30k, and lived on Capitol Hill (without a roommate). |
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