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an independent city. Nice area, and you can still get a modest ranch house for under 200k but that may not last long.
Biggest employer here is defense, hands down. I work in defense, specifically as a contractor for COMNAVAIRLANT. Right now there are anywhere from five to six bird farms in the area which makes traffic nightmarish at times. If working in defense interests you, just know this: budget cuts have made life in defense nasty, brutish, and short. There have been job cuts, and then there is the pending possible closure of NAS Oceana by the BRAC commission.
Wages: depends on what you do. What do you do or what are you interested in doing? You may have to do your own research on that one.
Weather- you get a range of seasons from cold and snowing to unbelievably tropical. Today we had a clear, sunny, drop-dead gorgeous day and I was on my motorcycle, as I often am.
Plenty to do here whether you like the beaches or the woods. We are not far from the Blue Ridge mtns, Nags Head NC, historic sites like Williamsburg, and we are about 4 hours (traffic permitting) from DC. Avoid Virginia Beach beaches during the tourist season...go when the crowds have left for the year.
Make sure each of you has a motor vehicle, because public transport here is not all that great. I am originally from a big city in the Northeast, so that's the yardstick I go by.
Oh, hey, did I mention that Pat Robertson lives here??? YAAAAAY!!! :P
And oh the BRIDGES! Pretty much everywhere you travel in Hampton Roads, there is a bridge and/or a tunnel to traverse, and they can make for a lovely afternoon sitting in traffic (especially when it's a bridge lift and you are stewing in traffic watching millionaire snowbirds cruise down the intracoastal waterway in their SAILBOATS)!!
And Pat Robertson lives here.
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