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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]$170k, 1 kid.  We went private for MS, may stay private but prefer public HS.  DC has more good HS options than MS.  [/quote]

Since this is anonymous, may I ask you 2 questions (ballpark answers obviously are fine, don't have to be exact):

1. About how much is your total annual school costs (tuition, books, before/after care if you use it) for private middle school?

2. About how much is your mortgage or rent?

Our HHI is less than yours, we have 1 kid, and I'm trying to get a ballpark (even though I know there are a million other variables) to how your situation compares to ours.  I would have assumed we could never afford private MS (we can barely afford aftercare at our current charter!) but I honestly haven't looked at the tuitions, so I really don't know.[/quote]

How did you afford daycare?  I think you can find a decent private equivalent to the cost of daycare (average $15k for daycare being used).[/quote]

We just moved to DC at the end of last summer.  In the city we moved from, DC was at one of the best daycare's in the city, placed in PS-3 at 2 yrs old, hours 6:30am-6:30pm, and that cost us [b]$170/month [/b]with no subsidy.  That's how we afforded it![/quote]

Oops, that should be $170/WEEK... I wish it had been $170/month!  But still, that was great for the quality and time period it covered.[/quote]

And also... that was in a city with a MUCH lower cost of living all around.  We did get raises when we moved to DC, but not even CLOSE to aligning with how much our general cost of living increased.  For perspective: Our rent here for a tiny 2 BR/2BA is almost THREE TIMES our mortgage on a 5 BR/# BA that was right downtown in our previous city.  So not only was daycare significantly cheaper, our COL was much lower, so all around that $15K or so for private would do us in most likely.[/quote]

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