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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I stayed home at $85k. It is now $120k. [/quote]

Did I write this while otherwise engaged?
My numbers exactly.[/quote]

Same here, with the benefit that we'd bought our Arlington house a while ago and our mortgage was only $1K.  I'm now back at work making $116K while DH is now up to $140K.[/quote]

I would give anything to have a $1k mortgage. Is this even remotely feasible these days?[/quote]

Does that include real estate taxes and insurance? I feel like just RET and INS would cost about $1k per month.[/quote]

We pay insurance and taxes separate (no escrow) so I don't think of them as "mortgage" so, no, that wasn't included.  I don't think it's possible to have a $1K mortgage any more (that is, just the mortgage no including tax/insurance) unless it's a condo.  We were lucky that DH bought our house in the late 90s when you could still get a basic house a few blocks from the metro in N. Arlington for around $220K!  We lived with a lot of problems in the house so that I could be a SAHM but once I went back at work we renovated and with the refinance to make that possible our mortgage is now just over $2K (+ taxes/insurance).  [/quote]

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