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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you want to live in NYC?  That seems like a bigger question than the kids' adaptability - they would be fine.  It would take a million dollars to get me to move to NYC though, and even then....[/quote]

+1 OP our HHI is similar to yours and our life is very comfortable here. I think it would take $1M+ HHI to have something comparable up there. I would only make the move if you actually want to live in NYC and have that experience.[/quote]

That’s a ridiculous #. We make 500k combined in NYC, have a nice 3500 sf house in a top school district. We shop at Whole Foods, cater holiday meals, workout with trainers… what do people need 1mm for? Of course don’t turn it down if it’s offered.[/quote]

Where is your house?
Do both parents commute into NYC?
How long is the commute?
Do the kids go to public schools? [/quote]

Northern Westchester.
I commute 4 days, DH commutes 2 days. 
50 min train ride.
Top public school, property tax is about 40k/year. 
We save plenty, have extra to buy nice furniture and take 2 trips per year. [/quote]

homes are like $2.5 mil in Scarsdale right now … Also the commute is longer than 50 minute - that’s just metro north. If you add in the time waiting for the train and the commute to and from the station, it’s got to be closer to 90 minutes, right? But yes, sounds like that could work if parents have complementary WFH schedules, although I would not have wanted to commute 90 minutes at all when my kids were little. [/quote]

I left home at 7:40am today to drop off kids at school, rolled in my office at 8:55. It’s def hard to do 5 days a week, but 2-3 is worth the suckup for 100% more pay if you don’t have generational wealth.
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