Amen to what smutt said. I bailed out of the inner Virginia suburbs almost two years ago and the outer VA suburbs ten years ago. I am never going back. It was way to uptight. DC itself was cool, but prohibitively difficult and expensive to live in. The mass transit was good, but not as convenient as NYC and owning a car was a real pain in the ass in DC. My current home (San Diego) is way chill. The pay is a bit lower and the housing ain't any cheaper; but there is always someone to play frisbee with in the park, and the weather is always warm enough to make playing frisbee with strangers practical. BTW, 60,000 for a network engineer MSCE/CCNA with minimal professional UNIX experience is pretty easy to come by in San Diego.
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Amen to what smutt said. I bailed out of the inner Virginia suburbs almost two years ago and the outer VA suburbs ten years ago. I am never going back. It was way to uptight. DC itself was cool, but prohibitively difficult and expensive to live in. The mass transit was good, but not as convenient as NYC and owning a car was a real pain in the ass in DC. My current home (San Diego) is way chill. The pay is a bit lower and the housing ain't any cheaper; but there is always someone to play frisbee with in the park, and the weather is always warm enough to make playing frisbee with strangers practical. BTW, 60,000 for a network engineer MSCE/CCNA with minimal professional UNIX experience is pretty easy to come by in San Diego.