Originally Posted by
saab2000
If you can afford DCA now (and your post implies that you can) then you are good to go.
You can look at Richmond, Baltimore, other areas in VA and MD. Also---PHL is not a nice place... but Delaware has a lot of nice areas. I've personally been to two of my buddies places there...and they are really nice, and affordable. It is what you make of it!
If you want to live next to DCA and 1 mile from Pres. Bush... you'll pay a premium. If you look 1 hour away (BWI, RIC, Delaware and some other towns here and there) you can find some really affordable places, and still sit RSV at home.