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• StephanieSeptember 7, 2012This blog misses many imrtpoant considerations such as: House Size: which depends on Family size, for example Io live in a 5 bed. house with 2 1/2 bath. with A/C in Hawaii and $530 toward our electric and free water and a Yard green space is uber expensive here , Off post Our BAH would only provide for 3 beds. 1 1/2 bath, no A/C , our electric would run near $800 and water and sanitation would be expensive! To Rent a house of our sq. Ft. Would be more than our monthly income all by itself ! Quietness : the article mentions this as a pro of off post but that is going to depend on Location! And you are Rolling the Dice with off post neighborhoods, why? because chances are you just PCSed and whereveryou are is completely foreign ! What seems as a peaceful quite neighborhood during the day with your rental agent may be Mardi GRAS come dark Rank : while we would like to pretend it doesnt matter, After a duty station 16 like us we all discover housing on post, to be Very radically different depending on rank! We have lived in condemned on-post apartments so bad we have been moved for them to be torn down, folks partying at all hours, with drug deals and crimes you couldnt believe and moved back to the same post a few rungs up the ladder and be offered gorgeous new housing , wide streets , clean safe parks, that even made my non-military friends and relative jealous. Not only are the houses worlds apart the neighborhood of like ranked families are also , radically different , There are still parties and get togethers , but they are more mellow, less yelling, less beer-pong Rules : depending on your homeownersneighborhood association, the rules off post could be even stricter than those found on post, with Fees , and can be very unforgiving to the military, for example a citation for over grown grass off post, where on post lawn care and service is provided for by Lend-lease There are many different angles to look at when choosing onoff post for housing your Family, and many of the answers will be unique to each families situation. The Big Thing to Look at is Location, which can be really hard if your looking for information on a postneighborhood, several states awayover seas. Luckily, we now have FB and can join GroupsLike community pages before we PCS and Ask other spouses already living there all of our Burning questions
  
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