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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gen X is really shaping up to be the new boomers, eh?

Let's see you survive, pre-gramps...

Rent: $2572/mo
Utilities: $350 (water, power, trash, internet)
Health insurance: $416/mo (is the half we pay & company pays other half)
Eye insurance: $50/mo ($25 ea for both me & hubby - kid is covered under health insurance)
Dental insurance: $44/mo ($22 eas for both me & hubby - kid is covered under health insurance)
Car 1: $0 - paid off
Car 1 insurance: $40/mo
Car 2: $216/mo but paying $400/mo so it will be paid off by July
Car 2 insurance: $65/mo
Student loan 1: $683/mo
Student loan 2: $515/mo
Daycare for 18 mo: $1314/mo
=$6096

And that doesn't even include groceries, tolls/gas/car expenses, personal care items, or other monthly expenses.

And yes, we've been trying to buy a house for 3 years now. We keep getting outbid, like, $50k-$70k outbid.

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I’m not OP but this isn’t the winning argument you think it is. We were paying 3100/month for a house in Fairfax in 2004 (475k at 5.2% interest - which admittedly you couldn’t get now but it’s in the same sphere as the housing cost you’re quoting) and daycare was 1,200/month for my 12 month old. Car payments were $400 each and despite not having smartphones, internet/cell/landline/cable was all about $300/month. I can’t remember other charges but it was tight. We made $65k each as feds. When siblings came we had to shell out even more for daycare/aftercare as we both stressed out commuting to/from L’Enfant and CH every.day as telework was laughed at.

Granted, kids grew, cars got paid off, refinancing took place. But that commute was relentless until about 2018 when we could each take 1 day per pp to telework.

So I do empathize with young parents but, the truth is, it’s always going to be difficult. Both parents are better about helping out now (although my DH was great then) and parental leave is actually generous. To OP’s point, it’s just hard to believe that young parents think they can take so much time/TW without any pushback from their employers.[/quote]

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