Dear Borntoservernepal,

I live and work at Rockville. Living cost is crazy if go by apartment listings, however sometime may find good deals in craiglist. Another option would be to share with some one- of course, craiglist is best to start.

Yes as others have suggested there is big Nepalese community, however all are busy in their own way. Lake forest mall area may be around 10 miles away from NIH main campus. There are few people who originated from Nepal and working at NIH. If you have access to global list of gov, you can find them.

If you like, drop me lines at epid08@gmail.com for further info that I am aware of.

Good luck!

Dharan