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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm surprised weekend places haven't taken off more here considering the high number of midwest transplants in the DMV. Plenty of people without DCUM $$ have 2nd "cabins" in Michigan and Wisconsin. They are great ways to ensure regular family time and outdoor activity. Are they the [i]best possible[/i] investment for your money from a strictly financial perspective? Maybe not. But they are usually at least a positive investment too. Comparing a 2nd home where you'll spend a lot of time together to a couple of vacations just isn't valid. [/quote]

This is us. We live in Chicago and have a lake house in Wisconsin. It's a 55 minute drive door to door so DH and I can run up and tend to things while the kids are at school/camp/daycare, we can shoot up for one day on the weekend if kids have sports on the other day. We both work remotely forever so we bring a grandparent or use a local sitter and we can go for a couple weeks at a time in the summer. Local babysitters are literally $10/hr so we will put the kids to bed, have a sitter come over, and do a date night up there. INSANELY cheaper than date nights in Chicago and often more fun/connecting.

Unpopular DCUM opinion I'm sure, but we are very avid home exchangers. So we can either exchange our lake house or exchange our Chicago house and stay at the lake house if we are dong a non-simultaneous exchange. In this way, it's opened up a WORLD of "free" vacations to us so we absolutey do not have to choose between vacation home or going on trips. Just this week alone we got a request from a family in Iceland that has to be in Milwaukee for a family wedding asking us to swap he last two weeks of July and a family in France asking us to swap over this upcoming Christmas. We've swapped for Germany, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, Czech Republic, Florida, North Carolina, UP of Michigan, and NYC so far. DH travels for work so we use his miles for flights and the home exchanges are free lodging and way way more convenient than hotels- stocked kitchens, laundry, toys/high chair/bikes for the kids, we often swap cars, etc.[/quote]

PP, can you share where do you get those house swapping interest? We are definitely interested in doing that!!! Thank you![/quote]

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