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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your husband wants to see his family he needs to live in the city.  End of story.   [/quote]

Or he has to wake up with a crack of dawn and hope to leave work by 4pm or work from home some days a week.  I have friends and colleagues with long commutes and they are not in the office very single day, they have flexibility.  I am not sure if that would be possible in your husbands's job especially right in the beginning before he establishes himself.  If you SAH you will be able to manage family life, but you won't see your husband a lot, at least not until he figures out if he can swing early morning hours and leave earlier or get some WAH arrangement.  It's just a matter of getting used to different family dynamics when your commute door to door will be at least 1 hour each way and easily can be 1.5 hours if you are not next to a train station and have to switch to subway from commuter train.

If you want super short and more comfortable commute from the burbs you can look into Bronxville/Scarsdale/Larchmont - the closer train stations with train ride no more than 35 min and look for homes walkable to the train or scooter ride away. It might be a townhome or a tiny fixer upper in your price range. The decision between the city and the burbs is not an easy one for NYers working in Manhattan, lots of families ditch the idea of the burbs due to long commutes, chaos of transit stations, expensive RE taxes and transit costs, car expenses you didn't have in the city.  Outer boroughs provide more residential options, but school situation isn't easy, you have to know how to navigate it or pay for private, plus subway commute, although convenient/cheap/frequent can be painful when trains are crowded, so many resort to train commutes instead or buses. [/quote]

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