On a more personal note, a few weeks ago, I was talking with a friend of mine; and explaining how I was thinking about moving off base. He had the same idea, so we looked at a few options. As we were walking through one of the houses we really felt like this was to be the place for us, but we wanted more housemates, so in short I asked one of my friends if he would be willing to move in, and he said he would be only if there was a fourth, and during the time, my other friend said the same thing. So we ended up with four housemates.
I think it is a wonderful thing to live off base and actually live in the community I am wanting to work in.