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03/12/2018 at 18:19 • Filed to: None
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"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
03/12/2018 at 18:19 • Filed to: None | 2
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As you’ve perhaps noticed in my posts here, I sometimes mention that while I live in Madison, WI, I grew up in the DC suburbs. Well, I’ve been sitting on this news for fear of jinxing it, but I’ve been interviewing for jobs in and around DC so I can move back.
My wife is from Wisconsin, but she’s lived all over the country. She moved back here to be closer to family, and we met shortly after she did, but she’s made it pretty clear she doesn’t want to stay in Wisconsin forever. Similarly, I came here for college and stuck around because of various circumstances, but also was not attached to living here forever.
Last fall we sorta kinda maybe looked at houses here in Madison but nothing was really exciting us about that prospect. In January, we ended up deciding now would be a good time to try to move to the DC area. So I started networking and applying for jobs.
I’ve had a bunch of phone interviews with various places, but there’s a solid prospect where so far I’ve had 2 phone interviews and a video interview and they’re working on scheduling me to go out there sometime next week to meet a bunch of people. Not to count my chickens before they’ve hatched, but I have a good feeling about this one.
The fun part here is we’re trying to, on short notice, move halfway across the country and buy a house. Luckily, we can swing it financially, our lease in Madison ends April 30th, and in the short term we can stay with my parents so I can start my new job while we wait to close on the house.
My dad actually offered this to me unprompted. I was like, “uh, you sure you want 3 cats all up in your house?” He responded, “your mom loves cats!” That was probably his way of saying he’d like to have us around, without actually saying it.
Hopefully with DC area real estate costs being what they are, we find a place in our budget that has !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
More to come in the next couple weeks!
For Sweden
> Textured Soy Protein
03/12/2018 at 18:24 |
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Choosing to live among journalists wow
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Textured Soy Protein
> For Sweden
03/12/2018 at 18:25 |
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I’ll single-handedly un-drain the swamp.
Under_Score
> Textured Soy Protein
03/12/2018 at 18:29 |
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DC suburbs are very expensive. My parents lived there before moving down here; their old house is in a terrible school district and is still Zillowed at nearly $500,000. Maybe try NC?
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Textured Soy Protein
> Under_Score
03/12/2018 at 18:36 |
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Oh, I know exactly how expensive it is there. But, that’s where we want to go, and our budget will manage.
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Under_Score
> Textured Soy Protein
03/12/2018 at 18:47 |
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Yeah, just try to find an older home in a good school district. The area was alright when my parents left, but the elementary and middle schools are 3's, and the high school is a 2; I checked demographics once of the high school and it’s mostly Hispanic, a big shift from when my parents were there before I was born. Where I’ve lived my whole life, schools are 9's. And considering that the “ghetto” schools around here are still 4's and 5's on the Great Schools ratings, that means you’re entering some bad news!
However, you need to be careful with that, too. When my parents came to Georgia, they were in district for a good high school; the high school I went to opened in 2006, and that old high school is kind of ghetto, too. Also, look for other things, like few to no renters, an HOA, and general safety of the area. You don’t want property values to fall from how high they currently are!
Cash Rewards
> Textured Soy Protein
03/12/2018 at 19:09 |
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There are plenty of us local in MD and NoVa, so shout out if you need anything!
arl
> Textured Soy Protein
03/12/2018 at 19:10 |
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Welcome (possibly) back to the land of never ending traffic!
God I hate this place. I can’t wait to retire and move somewhere that doesn’t require me to check the traffic before going out on a Saturday to go to the mall. Hell, if I move out of the Metro area I might even be able to afford a place with garage!
There are some good Cars & Coffees in and around the area. I go to a small, but laid back one in Alexandria - Hollin Hall. There’s a facebook group for it. I think they meet every other Sunday from late March through the fall. They usually have some cool rides. It’s south of Old Town, kind of near Mount Vernon.
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> arl
03/12/2018 at 19:28 |
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The job I’m looking at is in northern part of Rockville, which is also where I grew up. We’d probably live somewhere around Rockville, Gaithersburg, Wheaton, Silver Spring, etc. Not that traffic around there is great, but I feel like NoVa is that much worse.
Sovande
> arl
03/12/2018 at 19:35 |
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I go there too! What do you bring? I am the guy there sometimes in a 1987 El Camino. Introduce yourself this spring!
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> Under_Score
03/12/2018 at 21:00 |
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Yes, I know to look for when buying a house. All of the parts of town I’m looking at living are sufficiently nice.
someassemblyrequired
> Textured Soy Protein
03/12/2018 at 21:23 |
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Might I ask why? I’m stuck in DC thanks to the wife’s job, and other than the Smithsonian and cheap, decent ethnic food I’m struggling to find upside. Am I missing something critical?
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> someassemblyrequired
03/12/2018 at 22:10 |
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One of the best job markets in the country for my line of work, lots of trees, close to family, the aforementioned food, and all the other assorted big city trappings.