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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Reasons to buy in Virginia, not Maryland.

Posted: 4/11/2017 11:49:16 PM EDT

The better half is getting a job on Andrews. She keeps looking at cheaper Maryland real estate. What reasons can I give her that she is nuts and why Virginia is better. Thanks.

Posted: 4/13/2017 4:08:08 AM EDT

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I shall follow your post with interest, I am taking a job in MD but can't get over the gun laws up there and probably will bite the bullet and pay the extra money to live in nova.

Posted: 4/14/2017 9:13:01 AM EDT

[#2]

Freedom, lower taxes, and a better (but not great) political environment for starters. I can't speak about schools so someone else needs to weigh in on that.

I lived in Montgomery County, Maryland for 20+ years and moved south 3 years ago. I wish I had done it years earlier.

Posted: 4/14/2017 10:11:33 AM EDT

[#3]

does she like money? because so does Maryland, Marylands pimp hand is mighty large and mighty strong

Fuck you pay me

Posted: 5/2/2017 6:03:20 PM EDT

[#4]

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I can't speak about schools so someone else needs to weigh in on that.
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Maryland public schools, in general, are rated higher than VA (we took #1 again this year), but that's "In general" and qualty can vary within a county let alone within the state. That being said Northern VA schools are generally high quality and I'd rather have my kids in a Fairfax county school than a PG county school.

If you plan on homeschooling, then the laws are better in MD (surprisingly so).

If she's looking at real estate in PG county and thinking it's cheap - there is a reason for it.

Posted: 5/7/2017 10:02:03 PM EDT

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So having left Maryland for the free state of Texas at the end of 2016, all I can say is stay in VA! Maryland's gun laws almost make no sense, they get you good on income taxes, property taxes, but they really get you on fee's,. Fees added to almost anything you do that relates to state and local government. St Mary's was not bad overall, but given the choice between the two states again with what I know now it would be VA this time.

Posted: 5/12/2017 10:48:40 PM EDT

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So having left Maryland for the free state of Texas at the end of 2016, all I can say is stay in VA! Maryland's gun laws ~~almost~~ make no sense, they get you good on income taxes, property taxes, but they really get you on fee's,. Fees added to almost anything you do that relates to state and local government. St Mary's was not bad overall, but given the choice between the two states again with what I know now it would be VA this time.

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FTFY

Posted: 5/16/2017 2:53:51 PM EDT

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I left Maryland when I joined the Army and when I got out, I moved into south-eastern Virginia. The only time I go back to Maryland, is to visit my brothers who still live there (near Baltimore).

As has been said, taxes and gun laws are two reasons to pick Virginia, if that's a possibility. For me, the gun laws alone would be the deciding factor.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Reasons to buy in Virginia, not Maryland.

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