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[quote=Anonymous]One kid is totally fine and two kids can be as well if you have some flexibility for hours and work from home. Get a daycare convenient to your home. Value short commutes and simplicity over space and fancy baby stuff. We live in a cramped apartment with two kids because it saves time and money, and instead enjoy (pre covid but even some during covid) living in a fun, walkable neighborhood near the (free) zoo with lots of  fun (free) playgrounds and interesting (free) museums and (free) kids activities. If school opens, it's 1 block away and 2 blocks from daycare for the other kid. We found a basic daycare with good teachers (though have a nanny for covid) and skipped  the bilingual and Montessori options that were several hundred dollars more a month.  I spend way more time with my kids than people who have longer commutes. I had friends who picked their kids up at 6 and put them to bed at 7. I'd leave work at 4, am daycare before 4.30, and then walk home with a stop at the park . Oh and we spend no time on yard work and minimal time on apartment maintenence and have one car (used Toyota, which probably doesn't surprise you given my other responses) we park on the street. [/quote]

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