Well it is only a song in that area. Fairfax/Prince William etc area was and is just too expensive for most to live in.
Actually, it wasn’t bad when I moved there in ‘97. It was actually a little cheaper that where I’d been living in MD. We bought our house the year before the real estate boom and we didn’t overpay for it. But things went nuts after that. I could have made a 200 percent profit if I’d sold the house in ‘05. Looking back I wish I would have sold, but things were going gangbusters and I didn’t want to move. Now I’m nearly under water. Not quite, but another year of this and I’ll be swimming with the fishes-at least financially.