Anonymous
Post 12/05/2016 22:59     Subject: Re:What is your income to allow one parent to stay at home?
Anonymous wrote:150. metro accessible MD. no debt, no fancy house or cars. 2 kids.


Silver Sprint?
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2016 22:58     Subject: Re:What is your income to allow one parent to stay at home?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:$375K. It's hard to live comfortably, in the DC area, with an income under $200k.


NP - if you're keeping up with the Joneses, sure. We are a little over $200k, have massive student loan debt, daycare, and a DC proper mortgage payment. Still doing fine because I don't care a lick about what our friends have.


Biggest obstacle is adequate housing with decent commute and good schools. It's not fancy cars or handbags that cause the problems. It's wanting central a/c and enough bedrooms and bathrooms for a family of 4.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2016 22:58     Subject: What is your income to allow one parent to stay at home?
Anonymous wrote:I stayed home at $85k. It is now $120k.


Did I write this while otherwise engaged?
My numbers exactly.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2016 22:54     Subject: Re:What is your income to allow one parent to stay at home?
150. metro accessible MD. no debt, no fancy house or cars. 2 kids.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2016 22:40     Subject: Re:What is your income to allow one parent to stay at home?
Anonymous wrote:$375K. It's hard to live comfortably, in the DC area, with an income under $200k.


NP - if you're keeping up with the Joneses, sure. We are a little over $200k, have massive student loan debt, daycare, and a DC proper mortgage payment. Still doing fine because I don't care a lick about what our friends have.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2016 22:39     Subject: Re:What is your income to allow one parent to stay at home?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:$375K. It's hard to live comfortably, in the DC area, with an income under $200k.


FFS. Spare me.



Agreed. I am PP at 140k. 3 kids, immediate suburb of DC.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2016 22:35     Subject: Re:What is your income to allow one parent to stay at home?
Anonymous wrote:$375K. It's hard to live comfortably, in the DC area, with an income under $200k.


FFS. Spare me.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2016 22:20     Subject: Re:What is your income to allow one parent to stay at home?
$375K. It's hard to live comfortably, in the DC area, with an income under $200k.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2016 22:17     Subject: Re:What is your income to allow one parent to stay at home?
300k.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2016 22:15     Subject: What is your income to allow one parent to stay at home?
I stayed home at $85k. It is now $120k.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2016 22:12     Subject: Re:What is your income to allow one parent to stay at home?
It would be helpful if people include city they live in, $100k in Gainesville vs $100k in DC vs $100k in Richmond allow different QOL.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2016 22:01     Subject: What is your income to allow one parent to stay at home?
140. Simple cell phone, cut cable (use Netflix, amazon prime),one car payment,utilize parks, museums etc for affordable outings with children. Also big ticket, housing, purchased reasonable house, nothing too fancy but meets our needs, that was priced lower than what we qualified for/could afford. If you don't fall into trap of keeping up with Joneses I think it can be very doable in this area with less income than this board may have you believe.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2016 21:58     Subject: What is your income to allow one parent to stay at home?
$90k. Own TH, 1 van & 1 suv. Local vacations. Limits eating out. One activity per child. Public schools.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2016 21:54     Subject: What is your income to allow one parent to stay at home?
$100,000

We have one car. No fancy clothes. No vacations.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2016 21:48     Subject: What is your income to allow one parent to stay at home?
For those of you with one parent staying home, what is your income? What did you cut out to make one income work?