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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people described in the responses are incredibly fortunate. [/quote]
Or just make different choices than you do[/quote]

i[b]t's pretty fortunate to be able to afford part-time day care AND a nanny in such a HCOL area. Or have the luck to live close to and/or have competent grandparents who want to be involved.[/b] There's not much choosing when it comes to how far you can stretch your childcare budget, for people who have budgets, or how things shake out with the grandparents.

I'm with you PP. I had to put my DC in full-time daycare around 2 in order to work and I didn't love it. Part-time would have been a better fit for her but we could not afford the nanny or for me to stay at home. [/quote]

Or to just make sacrifices  to be a SAHP?   "You're just so FORTUNATE to live in a 2 bedroom house.  It would just be impossible for me to cram my family of 3 in anything less than 5,000 sqf."   "You're just so FORTUNATE to go camping for vacation each year, every year.   We just wouldn't be able to survive without spending $50,000/year on luxury trips."
"You're so FORTUNATE to drive a 10 year old economy car.   We'd never survive without buying a brand new XL luxury SUV every other year."[/quote]

DP, but I can’t afford to stay home (or have a nanny) and we live in an 800sqft condo, mostly “vacation” by visiting my parents, and don’t own a car.  I also don’t have a career that would allow re-entery after a five year gap.  Yes, I regret choosing this career.  No, I don’t have a time machine to fix it with.  You are in fact fortunate to be able to stay home if you want to.[/quote]

So again, it’s about the choices you made. Not “fortune.”[/quote]

I guess that’s a fair point.  It is about the choices we made at 20 and 25 and 30.  Unfortunately, when you’re wanting to stay home at 35, you can’t go back and change any of the earlier choices to make that easier.  Your examples of sacrifices are things I have already sacrificed to afford kids at all so I can’t sacrifice more to stay home and pay for part time preschool.  I maintain that people who are in the position to do so are fortunate, either financially or logistically if they have family willing to help out.  Why are you so offended by being called fortunate?[/quote]

Because it's inaccurate.    It wasn't "fortune," it was hard sacrifices.  [/quote]

“Hard sacrifices” a lot of us also made without ending up in a position of being able to stay home and pay for preschool too?  Weird take from a privileged person who doesn’t realize their good fortune.  (Me, I’m grateful to be fortunate to have involved loving grandparents who are willing to babysit occasionally even if I can’t afford any of the things you suggest are hard sacrifices.)[/quote]

I'm not privileged. I don't have good fortune.[/quote]

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