Although we grew up in Pennsylvania, my husband and I spent nearly 20 years building our lives in the Washington, DC, area.
We loved it and thought we’d live there forever, but our plans changed when we got married in 2021 and started looking to buy our first home.
We soon realized we couldn’t afford much in Rockville, Maryland, where we’d lived for eight years, or any other part of the DC metro area.
After pricing some homes, it dawned on us that we’d be about halfway to my hometown in Pittsburgh before we could even think about affording a decent house.
At that point, we thought, why not go back to our roots? So in 2022, after two decades in the DC area, we packed up our apartment and moved four hours north to Pittsburgh.
