A lot of people have asked us in the last 6 months, "well, how does it feel to be married...do you feel different?" Ironically (or maybe not), we both seem to answer that it feels pretty much the same (especially after we've been sharing an apartment for nearly four years). However, after we got married we realized that not only had we accumulated nearly 4 years of stuff (from grad school and the Army), but we also had toasters and Calphalon pans and Kate Spade china that we had nowhere to put. Believe it or not, our oven had become a storage area for overflow pots and pans, and the trunk of our car had become a virtual public storage on wheels. And if any of you have had the pleasure of sharing a bathroom with your significant other, which means having the other person seemingly annoyingly open the medicine cabinet just as you are putting on your make-up in that coveted corner of the mirror or having to squeeze past each other to get in and out of a shared closet, then you know what I'm talking about. We were living on top of each other and we were outgrowing our beloved Old Town, Alexandria, VA apartment.
Needless to say, the search began....
We didn't really begin seriously looking for a home until we stumbled across a development in Woodbridge, VA that seemed to promise everything but a boat at the end of the sea oats lined lake on their website, but unfortunately, after a visit, it wasn't quite what we were looking for. Following that, we looked at a townhouse in Old Town that seemed too good to be true, but when we toured it, it was less than lackluster and we quickly moved on. From there we shifted focus to the 'burbs, which as you can probably tell from the title of this blog is where we'll end up. At first, the choices seemed overwhelming with so many suburbs outside of D.C. and wanting to have a combination of active community, nice/affordable home, and good place to someday raise a family, but eventually, we narrowed it down to Loudoun County. As one of the fastest growing and affluent counties around D.C., we decided it was the place for us.
For more on Loudoun County click here: http://www.loudouni.com/business/2010-03-09/forbes-says-loudoun-county-richest-county-america
Needless to say, the search began....
We didn't really begin seriously looking for a home until we stumbled across a development in Woodbridge, VA that seemed to promise everything but a boat at the end of the sea oats lined lake on their website, but unfortunately, after a visit, it wasn't quite what we were looking for. Following that, we looked at a townhouse in Old Town that seemed too good to be true, but when we toured it, it was less than lackluster and we quickly moved on. From there we shifted focus to the 'burbs, which as you can probably tell from the title of this blog is where we'll end up. At first, the choices seemed overwhelming with so many suburbs outside of D.C. and wanting to have a combination of active community, nice/affordable home, and good place to someday raise a family, but eventually, we narrowed it down to Loudoun County. As one of the fastest growing and affluent counties around D.C., we decided it was the place for us.
For more on Loudoun County click here: http://www.loudouni.com/business/2010-03-09/forbes-says-loudoun-county-richest-county-america
