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DC is on 9 waitlists. We're also entered into several charter lotteries, with the understanding that we're moving into the city this summer. I need to be living in DC by the start of the 2012/2013 school year if we're granted a spot. I should know about the last lotteries in a few weeks.

If we don't get a spot, I'm screwed. Well, not completely as we [i]can [/i]continue living with my parents, but things are getting tense (we've been here a year) and it's time for us to go. I can't afford FT daycare and rent on my salary alone. I'm also stuck with current FT daycare until June. I can probably swing one month of paying both, but not much more than that.

I've got $2100/mo to split between rent, utilities, food and childcare. I work FT, 8:30ish-5ish, so I'll still need to pay aftercare even if we get a spot at a charter. I've been fine-tuning my budget, trying to work and re-work the numbers, but that's the max I can spend. $2300 if I sell the car.

I've looked in VA as well (not as much in MD as my parents are my back-up childcare and they have said it's too far for them, although I'm about at the point where I don't really care, we just need to move) and rents are similar to DC, with the added necessity of keeping the car and the likelihood of a long commute. We currently take the Metro and the bus to daycare and work and it adds 2-3hrs to our day, which is brutal.

I don't know how people manage on less than what I make. I know they do, I just don't know how.[/quote]

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