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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It wholly depends on the life you are trying to lead, and the life your partner is trying to lead, and synchronizing those goals.

If you want your wife to stay home for the first year, the first five years OR if you want your wife to have an interesting and well paid job and have a good nanny, I put the floor at about $250,000 in this area.

If you both want to work and you have a good daycare option maybe $150,000/each

Some adjustments for where you want to live, how much vacation you want to take, whether you want to send kids to
Private school or whether you will pay for college all factor in, but HHI for this area, $250,000+[/quote]

Riiight, you both need to make $150k to swing decent daycare.[/quote]

Can you imagine the society we'd live in if everyone thought like this before having kids? We'd go extinct.[/quote]

Firstly I didn’t say it was what it would cost for daycare, I said it was the cost of both people wanted to WOTH, so no nanny cost or SAHP childcare savings.

Sure let’s imagine a society where people being children into the world planning to pay for their college? To not burden them with the costs of their parents in retirement? That’s really what makes you worry for the figure of society?[/quote]

DP.  I'm in my 50s, been married 25+ years and our HHI has never been more than $200K/year.  There was a 2 year period my DH was unemployed/underemployed and our HHI dropped to about $120K.  Yet, we own our home, sent our kids to daycare, have over $100K in college savings for our kids and over $1M in retirement savings.  We've had to pick/choose where our money goes.  When we take vacations, we usually visit family.  We drive 10+ year old cars and never buy them new.  We take our coffee in thermoses to work and pack lunches.  We rarely eat out.  I'm sure you're life looks very different and mine is not appealing to you.  That's fine.  But, you've got a very unrealistic view of what level of income is needed for a good life in this area. [/quote]

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