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Moving to Washington DC?

Hi all! I'm moving to washington DC in June 2007 for 3 years, for my husband's job, I'm moving with him and my 15 year old son. He'll be working in the Georgetown area and we'd like to find a townhouse or an appartment in that area, we also need to find a good school for our son and generally I need information to help me with EVERYTHING as I haven't got a clue about anything! Can anyone help???? thanks!!!!!

Update:

Could someone also tell me about the cable phone ett deals and what school should my son go to? high or junior high, he'll be 16 in June!

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  • White
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    I lived in Washington last year, and let me tell you, Georgetown is an expesive area, if I were you I'd take a look at Arlington, I lived in Courthouse and it is really near Georgetown and a lot less expensive, it is on the Orange line of the metro, which is really convenient.

    Here are some sites that might help you (apartment search, metro maps, general info. about DC:

    http://www.apartments.com/Area.aspx?state=va&page=...

    http://www.washington.org/index.cfm?blnNavView=Tru...

    http://www.wmata.com/

    As for cable, we chose Comcast and our phone and internet service was with Verizon.

    Hope this helps! Good luck, I'm sure you will love it there.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    if you want to live in georgetown, your husband better be pulling in some serious cash. bottle water costs $3 here and everything else is WAYYY more expensive. your best, financial, bet would be to find something in the surounding area. there are plenty of condos, apts all within 10-15 minutes of georgetown here. they are all posted on the net so if you googled DC condos or something, you'd get a blast of info about them. sorry, can't help you out with the schools.

  • 1 decade ago

    Georgetown is a very expensice area. You could live in Arlington, VA in the Rosslyn area. It's right across the river from Georgetown and you can get there easily. My sister lived in the Rosslyn area of Arlington and we walked to Georgetown. There's a bridge that connects it. I'd do that rather than live in Georgetown. It's so crowded and expensive.

  • 1 decade ago

    That really depends on how much money your family will be making. Georgetown is one of the most expensive places to live in the area. Most of the people who work in DC live in either Virginia or Maryland and commute.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Many DC neighborhoods have a yahoo group. You may want to join those in the areas you're looking at moving to. For starters try the Georgetown Mom's group:

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/georgetownmoms/

    Good luck!!

  • 1 decade ago

    First of all I gotta tell you I'm a huge fan of Washington D.C.I only lived there for 2 months but loved every minute I was there.

    http://www.dcmessageboards.com/index.php?showforum...

    Thats a good site to try and look for an apartment or townhouse.It helped me out when I was looking.Good luck and enjoy your stay there!!

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