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[quote=Anonymous]It was tight with two kids in daycare and hii of $130k, but we managed. We live outside the beltway and have a pretty good life, but definitely weren’t able to save or do expensive extras in the early years. Now kids are in elementary and HHI is closer to $175k, and we have a lot more room to breathe. We still are delaying some house repairs and need to choose between things like private piano lessons and going on ‘real’ vacations (I.e. not just drives to visit family) and don’t regularly eat out but overall have a good life. We did decide to stop at 2 kids based on our income and the cost of raising them here, which was a bummer. We could have done 3, and I wanted that, but the financial implications and stress that would bring stopped us. Our friends with similar incomes and similar lifestyle with 3 are living off credit cards.[/quote]
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