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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a young boomer at 65.

Most of my college friends worked throughout their careers. They are accountants, nurses, journalists, HR pris, teachers, lawyers. They used daycare, [b]they lived close to their jobs.[/b] They had [b]modest houses[/b], sometimes a biweekly cleaning service, and their kids all watched a lot of TV and played with other kids from their schools without a ton of supervision.  There was not a lot of travel sports. Just school sports.

In short we lived much more middle class lives and weren't micromanage the hothouse flowers you are bringing up today.

My DH played it differently. We postponed kids until our [b]early 40s,[/b] doing a[b] bunch of travel and house projects[/b] then one of us switched to part time after they were born. By that time we had power in our jobs and could set up our schedules to suit us.
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You are out of touch.  There are no modest homes close to most people's jobs.

Starting at 40s for kids, statistically that means fewer people even get to have kids as its a huge gamble, and on average kids get to have parents for a much shorter part of their lives and likely won't get any grandparent help with childcare.

You real secret was making more than average and buying when houses were cheap[/quote]

There are indeed cheaper homes near work away from the D.C. area.

You are the out of touch one.

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Than you have crap jobs.  Sure if you are a teleworking job and know you can build a career never going into the office, you will have the cheaper pay that matches those cheaper houses (which often leaves you work off because of the magic of percentages).[/quote]

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