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Your salary is enough, OP. It's just a question of how much of a lifestyle adjustment it will be for you. Posters on DCUM are used to living a very comfortable lifestyle. If you are frugal and don't expect to pay for every last extra-curricular and gadget, you will be fine.

When DC1 was born, DH and my combined income was 60K. We were still putting in long hours at work, and had to pay for daycare. We developed frugality into an art form.

Now our income had doubled, and what do we spend it on? Having a second kid. Traveling internationally. Spending on private preschool and expensive activities for the kids. None of these things are essential. We still live just as frugally in our daily life, so that we can afford these luxuries mentioned above.

The money is not the problem. It's your support system. Do you have close friends here, the type to take care of your child in a heartbeat? Do you have other family members here younger than your parents? Will you have to bear the financial and material burden of looking after your parents in their old age?

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