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I will be moving to work in D.C. here in just a few short months with my wife. I've noticed that pretty much every house for sale in the area goes for at least 250,000, and that will get you a trailer. Is there any area within an hour drive with housing that isn't as expensive????
Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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250k for a house is a bad deal. that house has got to be in a very bad area. if you want to live in a condo something cheap for 250k or less. New Carrollton, Hyattsville, and Berwyn Heights would be affordable yet safe. but do NOT pay 250k for a sfh within a hour drive from DC.
Yeah, quite honestly I'm surprised that there's ANY homes, even in the worst of neighborhoods, for 250K within an hour's drive of D.C. As Alanboy said, if there is RUN AWAY. It's a sad reality that it will be in a horrible crime-plagued neighborhood. A 250K could get you a two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo in some select parts of the DC area. Where I live in Ashburn, your quintessential quiet suburban community of good schools, low crime and soccer moms, some 35 miles west of DC (near Dulles Airport), single family homes start at around 450K (although there's a few around the lower 400s), and townhouses generally at around 350K and the condos where my brother lives are going for around 280K but I'd imagine that there are some closer to 250K in this area. That might give you some idea as to how far you'll have to travel out to find similar prices in this area. Maryland is a bit cheaper; PG County in particular but you have to be careful where you choose to live within the county and it's generally best to go as far away from DC as possible when looking at Prince George's County.
Well, it might depend on how long an hour is. You might find an acceptable townhouse out in Charles County MD for $250K here and there for instance, but if an hour were a strict 60 minutes, you could be in some trouble there. If 75-90 minutes would qualify as an hour, it could be a different story. The same sort of thing would apply in VA. There is simply a lot of money in this area, so people are able to bid up the cost of convenient residential areas, and they have. Not all that much different from most major cities, though...
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