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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My private sector DH is the higher earner and the only reason we are tethered to this area is because of my fed job. It would not be worth it to our family to stay in this area with one parent having to be in an office 5 days per week (the added cost of after care, commuting, etc.) and stress on our family would just suck.

I’d first search for another job in this area, I have feelers out and am pretty sure I could land somewhere. But if nothing works out, we could just move to a lower COL area near family and live off my DH’s income. We have 13 years of home equity we could use to buy a nice home with cash (or small mortgage) elsewhere.

I hate thinking like this though because I know the MAGA sociopaths would love the idea of a woman leaving the workforce and a family moving out of the DC area. [/quote]
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Okay?  Lots of families have two full time working parents, with long daycare hours or split shifts. [/b]

If you don’t have to live near your DH job, then you are free to live near YOUR job, so your commute is not that long, so why is this so impactful you will move over it? [/quote]

And that’s exactly what we as a society should be discouraging. Allow parents to work with WFH or hybrid arrangements so that kids are not sitting in daycare for 10 hrs, it’s not good for the kids. Support working parents and we might get a society with more functional people, destroy and overwork families and we will deserve every bit of dysfunction coming our way.

I am not a Fed btw, I do feel strongly about this issue though. If hybrid work environment is getting the work done and a family is able to have healthier meals, plus their kids spend more time with parents then what exactly is the problem? This should be a no brainer, I can understand PPs for argument coming from an uneducated person but not from a supposedly educated person. Shame on you, PP![/quote]

I agree with all of this.

I hope PP understands that the argument “well, things sucked for parents before, so get over yourselves!” is compelling exactly nobody to their side. It’s like saying that there shouldn’t be parental leave just because people didn’t commonly have it before. We’ve evolved past that. We’ve actually evolved to a society that is better for not only parents but for other people; hybrid and fully remote work is insanely popular. And there’s no good reason to take it away except (1) real estate interests and (2) pure spite. [/quote]

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