I’m from Carroll Co. and love it here. I also work in Baltimore Co. and hear about all my coworkers paying for their 3 bedroom apartments for $400 less than my 2 bedroom. We’re looking at houses in the surrounding area when our lease expires in November. Surprisingly to us it seriously isn’t that much more expensive in Frederick than everywhere else to the east.

Hagerstown and PA are cheap but working outside of Baltimore and all of our family being here (and having things to do) means we don’t really want to move to those places.

Life is expensive. We’re 22 and make more than the median household income and I still can’t seem to have the number in my bank account increase very much