I think the cost structure is also vastly different than even five years ago given rent/mortgage costs regionwide (plus how much those feed into childcare costs and availability).
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Childcare is huge. Having extended family helps, but if you don't have that, it can be $2,000-$3,000 per month.
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Not can be, is. Even if you have family help, preschool is 1.5-3K.
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I know multiples doing it: raising kids in small spaces, or w/ roommates, or in more peripheral neighborhoods than they had chosen as DINKs. Also know one household that moved here with toddler triplets(!) and less than $120k in income three years ago (one parented full-time).
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So they rent, have one FT childcare parent and how far is their commute?
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I mostly just post Office memes, so I doubt you’ll be able to take anything meaningful away from this reply, BUT if you could be a dear and vote on the poll on my pinned tweet, that would be
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My wife and I made $200k in the Bay. Starting a family was one of the biggest reasons we moved. Could we have started a family? Yes. Could we have bought a house and not spent even more time in our day in the car adding day care to our work commute? No.
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“Can’t start a family”, at least for us, was a stand in for “We can do this with far, far more bang for our buck elsewhere.”
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without any advantages, mathematically, can it work? if you... get no family help need to pay for childcare so you can sustain that job are renting and suspectible to rent increases weren’t gifted a golden egg ($ or in-kind) no security blanket if situations happen
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some more from this perspective: have to also budget for student debt give your parents some recurring allowance are expected to cover a younger siblings expenses since your parents did that for you save for parents probable heath decline
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