Hi Adrien, that was my point: it is hard to find a nice large condo for $350K in DC area, let alone a dettached house!! However, Ashburn is two hours away from DC with no traffic. As such, Peter can find a good deal for a house out there, as long as he does not need to come over to DC for work every day. House prices in N. Virginia suburbs close to DC are so high now. The newly built one-bedroom condos around where I live are sold for upper 400K nowdays!!

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