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[quote=Anonymous]I really think the only expenses that one should count as going away are daycare/nanny/pre k. Everything else just gets traded in some way- sure gas is less but you need to park in metered spots more - yes you don't eat out as much but you need more groceries - sure you don't need as much dry cleaning but you'll need to sign the kids up for some kind of playbased crap. All those things might net you +100 a month ahead or they might not. The big ticket items - $35,000 for nannies and such is where the rubber hits the road.

And frankly the decision should be holistic anyway. Quitting your job at 40 with $5000 saved for retirement is a wholly different proposition than quitting at 30 with $1.5M saved.

You can always make quitting look worthwhile if you want to, just as you can make not quitting look obvious too. The poster who had $50,000 a year in expenses and made $90,000 might only clear $1,000 a month "extra". That's not peanuts but its not exactly the difference between early retirement and not either.

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