Suburban Life in Metro Washington DC
If you live here, you know; and if you don’t, it’s a pseudo-secret. TV shows & movies portray a laid back, albeit thrilling life in this town. But the travel agents also point out the local attractions, including museums & theater. This area also has a very educated populace, which shows in bookstores and local activism.
For those who don’t want the excess of life in the downtown area, there are some suburban neighborhoods, and there are some top class suburbs, cities in their own rights.
Forbes recently highlighted a few, in both Maryland and Virginia. I’d also add Reston,VA and Columbia, MD to their list. You’ll find home prices in the premier suburbs as higher and higher than most of DC, but, as in all, you get what you pay for.
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Metro Washington Congestion
A few weeks ago, Forbes published it’s list of most congested cities. Oh joy, we made the list! Washington, DC made the list at #1.
Hardly newsworthy to the locals, and this does help those on the Washington Metro understand why they are packed in tight, the system averaging 800,000 riders daily in April 2008.
This fact of life also helps understand why home prices inside the Beltway continue to rise, while those outside, on the fringes of the Metro Washington DC area, those home prices are in a tailspin, still dropping.
Real estate is local, I often say “hyper local”. What’s happening to your colleague’s house in Haymarket has nothing to do with what is happening to your Capitol Hill house. The same is true, whether you’re a buyer or a seller.
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