I was in CRW for a while too, the crews are awesome, and the DCA flying was a blast. As far as places to live, Charlie west is alright. Not my particular cup of tea, but not bad if you're flexible and don't much mind where you end up. It is cheap, which helps quite a bit. When I was there it went from nothing but day trips one month, to a mix of day trips, one two-day trip and two day trips, to two, two-day drips to make a 4 day schedule. Occasionally overnights seem to get thrown their way, they usually seem to get some good ones. Other months it was CRW-IAD and back or CRW-DCA and back all day, all month. Holding it right out of training? Probably will depend on the vacancies when you go through but I wouldn't be shocked if you could, but that doesn't mean you will.