Bare-ya-cuda
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And this is the only place you feel smart
Relocating - Salary
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Clem72
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You have the distinction of working at a "headquarters" that's not in a metropolis, so you have high value high income jobs available to people to pull people in who are working their way up the ladder, but you don't have the amenities to keep them once they have the experience to move on.
Same issues with Ft. Riley and 1st ID, or Ft. Huachuca and Netcom/JITC, or Peterson AFB (Northcom) and Schriever AFB (Spacecom).
I was looking forward to re-making a friendship when I moved here. One of my childhood friends was the cybersecurity guy at Saint Mary's Hospital. Got the notice that he passed away just a few months before I got here.
My Mrs. was hired by NAVAIR through a program that gets long term unemployed disabled vets back into doing what they did before. She was out of work 15 years dealing with PTSD and other effects of her service connected injuries. She started out with Fire Scout, then the EA-18 with VX23, involuntarily transferred to Triton, and is now working on the Coast Guard C-27 program. I guess she's an exception to your experience, wants to work until at least full Social Security retirement age, maybe to 70 if the job keeps her well engaged, 27 August was 9 years with NAVAIR.
mitzi
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I honestly don't think the crime is that bad in this county. Certain areas yes, but all in all it's not that bad. Now other areas in other counties not far from here it is BAD. We have big box stores and several different grocery stores. It all depends on what part you live at.
The Great Mills Road area is pretty sketchy.
mitzi
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Where?
mitzi
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Yes, very sketchy. That's where the high crime is. Mainly in those apartments.
I did see the police talking to a panhandler at the 235/St. Andrews light a week or so ago. With his lights on in the turn lane.
Sneakers
Just sneakin' around....
I've seen them (panhandlers) there every day this week, so maybe it was just a 'safety' talk?
Perhaps. They are also at the end of FDR at St. Andrews.
They are competing with you, right? ;-p
NorthBeachPerso
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Getting away from pooping in holes and panhandling here may be some ideas for you.
Every SoMD County has its own "bad area", Calvert's doesn't get the press or attention like the ones in St. Mary's or Charles do (mostly because the people don't tend to shoot each other up as often as those in the other two Counties do).
For St. Mary's, because that's the one you asked about, the Lexington Park area is really the problematic one, and is where PAX is located, but get away from there and there are few issues except for domestics and the occasional bar fight. And the usual stupid teenage tricks. Well, there's some low level deer and oyster poaching occurring, too.
South of Lexington Park the County indeed is rural. Not North Dakota, or even North Central Pennsylvania, rural, but it is rural.
You could look near Leonardtown for a house or even across the Thomas Johnson bridge in Calvert to live but that bridge sometimes has almost daily traffic issues. Also, one large sub-division in Calvert called the Ranch Club (among other names, even the residents don't know what to call it) is one of the Calvert areas that sometimes has some negative happenings. Although the most recent outrage was over the guy who killed an alligator someone had released into the community's lake.
If schools are an issue then Calvert is generally considered to have the best ones.
Careful. He'll want you to pay him back for lunch.
BOP
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Not all of Lexington Park is bad. The GM Rd area is. My sister lives in Town Creek and it is generally a sleepy area unless the scoff laws come in to cause some trouble.
Hollywood is also nice.
LightRoasted
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For qualification purposes, loan/mortgage people run with the total income amount number. Not the after tax, or take home amount. They will then take into account for any debt payments one has, such as for a car, and credit cards, to arrive at a maximum loan amount.
LightRoasted
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From south Georgia huh? But living in the most northern part of the state?
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From south Georgia huh? But living in the most northern part of the state?
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UglyBear
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You are absolutely right, that’s what banks do, and that is totally insane.
Personally, I’m much more conservative, and would never spend more than 1/3 of my take-home on housing. I just like to have a bit of cushion for unexpected expenses, be able to finance a new car, save for a vacation, etc.
With the OP’s original data, salary of $130k, and assuming they got at least some money out of their previous house, they should still be able to afford most properties in this area — not mansions, but a decent house in a decently quiet area with some acreage. With luck even something on the water, or at least not too far.
Grumpy
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Highly doubt that, but you go on with your bad self, azzhat