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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ill bite - I am 32 and my DH is 30.  Our HHI is 175k and two big reasons we aren't having kids yet - in the immediate we can't afford it (day care is upwards of $1600-1800 a month in DC) and in the long term we can't afford it (our under grad institutions are pushing 60k+ per year NOW) and the other reason is most of our friends aren't even married at this point and the ones that are have not had kids.  If we had a kid we would only be breaking even for the next few years and would be in debt if we had 2 and were paying for daycare.  Husband is a JD working government and I work in the non profit world and have only a BA.[/quote]

PP, basically, you and your husband don't want to children right now. And that is fine! If you never want children, that is fine too!

But to say that you can't afford to have a child because your household income is $175,000...[/quote]

We make 200k a year and can't afford children. After saving for retirement and paying bills, there's hardly enough leftover for daycare plus all the other crap. Life here is expensive.[/quote]

Yes! 170k here and little is left. Our 80k in student loans is almost paid off, but we're reluctant to go into debt for kids. Daycare is what we're most concerned about. And 3 months unpaid maternity[/quote]

What do you think the median household income is, in your area?[/quote]

OK... but for that money we also work very long hours and had 80k in student loans. Longer hours at work= more daycare costs. Neither of us make that much- it's TWO people making 170k. In the rest of the US average income is 50k, 85k here isn't exactly rolling in dough here. Things are much, much more expensive in the DC area. [/quote]

So move.[/quote]

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