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[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]

My office in Oakton banks up to a bunch of affordable town homes. A little dated from 1980s. The School bus is right outside my office. A couple could easily live there one car. If spouse worked my place, could get them on bus stop and walk into office. Then when bus comes back litterally take a ten minute break, pick them up, walk back to townhome and make snack. We are WFH three days a week. Only one person at work did this.

Many buy in Woodbridge, Manassas, far from work to get a big huge house. I also worked in Bethesda 10 years ago and had a lady living in Ashburn with three young kids upset about commute to Bethesda three days a week. She had like a 8,000 sf home. I for fun asked you do know homes walking distance to office could be bought same price. She was like, yea, but they would be smaller and dated. I want a big huge new house and at my price point I cant afford Behesda.

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