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Hello everyone! My husband and I are moving from Dallas, TX to the DC area for educational purposes. I am a law student who will graduate this year and my husband is applying to graduate programs. His top choice is in Baltimore and if he gets in we are moving. (Please God let him get in!) I attended undergrad in DC and plan to obtain another degree from my school as well. I also plan to work in DC. So, we are torn between DC and Baltimore and would like to find a happy medium. Please provide any advice on travel time between the 2 areas; nice & affordable comunities; and which area we should try to live closest to considering traffic. Thanks in advance for the help.
Well, your best options are likely to be in Montgomery and Howard counties in Maryland, and if the Baltimore school is Hopkins, you may want to cheat a little bit toward the north, even if the DC school is Georgetown. Anyway, downtown-to-downtown by car would be about an hour on a pleasant Sunday afternoon, but in rush-hour, the news is rather more grim. Still, you should be able to find a spot in between where neither trip in rush-hour would exceed an hour, or at least not by very much. There are rail options to and within both cities, as I'm sure you know, and those can be great when they are a fit, but sometimes they aren't. I guess the actual schools and the times of day you would expect to be travelling would be big factors here. If, for instance, he could do the school runs in and out after rush-hour, the Baltimore part would become a relative breeze, and you could live somewhere closer to DC to keep your own commute in hand. Things to think about...
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Hello everyone! My husband and I are moving from Dallas, TX to the DC area for educational purposes. I am a law student who will graduate this year and my husband is applying to graduate programs. His top choice is in Baltimore and if he gets in we are moving. (Please God let him get in!) I attended undergrad in DC and plan to obtain another degree from my school as well. I also plan to work in DC. So, we are torn between DC and Baltimore and would like to find a happy medium. Please provide any advice on travel time between the 2 areas; nice & affordable comunities; and which area we should try to live closest to considering traffic. Thanks in advance for the help.
