Anonymous wrote:Also, you could use commuter pre tax $ for Amtrak, which should help with cost. I would find a reliable $150/night hotel if you can. You’ll just be sleeping there.

Commuter pre tax only goes up to so much. You’ll go over it.

Anonymous wrote:I’m in consideration for a job that requires 2 days per week in NYC, the rest is remote. I’d really prefer not to uproot my family so thinking through what it might look like to commute and stay in NYC for two days a week. The job is about $100K more than my current salary so figure that would cover the costs involved?

Does anyone do this? What does it look like for you?

Hi Audrey Horne from Twitter

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Anonymous wrote:Train ticket is 300/week and lodging maybe another 300/week (staying one night). Take the 5am Acela and come back next evening. Totally do-able. DC has a great quality of life but the salary progression can be super frustrating.

And a lot of the extra 100k will go right to taxes. In the end, she’d be lucky to net 20k.

We did it with two young children @ home for 60k increase in pay. So after travel (I took the cheap bus from tysons corner to penn station), hotel (sublet from someone) and child care we probably netted 0. But we are super happy now in our new pay range and title.

I think it depends on what income and expenses you have as a household, whether you need to rejiggle childcare, whether your spouse is fine with holding down the fort for 2 full days here... and where you see this job going. Maybe start with hotels, but if this is going to last for years, and you have attachments to NYC, would you like to get your own place eventually?

I did this 18 months. I book way ahead Amtrak and usually did regional. Usually $98 round trip. It is cheaper now with night own specials and vamoose bus is $50 round trip.

I found a non chain hotel where I prepaid 30 nights in cash at a discount. 30 day or more booking avoids hotel tax. But if sold out he might not.

I got bookings and Airbnb app plus could sleep in office if necessary.

Anonymous wrote:Train ticket is 300/week and lodging maybe another 300/week (staying one night). Take the 5am Acela and come back next evening. Totally do-able. DC has a great quality of life but the salary progression can be super frustrating.

And a lot of the extra 100k will go right to taxes. In the end, she’d be lucky to net 20k.

The two couples I know who do this are two professional DINK couples.

Only works and makes sense if you are a DINK professional couple.

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Anonymous wrote:Train ticket is 300/week and lodging maybe another 300/week (staying one night). Take the 5am Acela and come back next evening. ITotally do-able. DC has a great quality of life but the salary progression can be super frustrating.

Lodging in nyc is now like 500 plus for a midrange hotel

+1. And you may need to juggle childcare stuff, you’ll need to get meals, etc. it’s doable but may be hard on your spouse and kids. Would you be remote outside of those two days?

I do this and you can definitely get reasonable hotels (not sure where the $500 is coming from). The bigger issue is the train. Amtrak prices has become quite high unless you book far in advance (so if you know it is the same days every month, you could make it work by booking several months ahead). I've often found it quite a bit cheaper to fly (even with the Uber into Manhattan factored in). If you can do it without spending the night, just one day in NYC a week (which is what I do), it is very doable. Train up early and back on the late train.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Train ticket is 300/week and lodging maybe another 300/week (staying one night). Take the 5am Acela and come back next evening. ITotally do-able. DC has a great quality of life but the salary progression can be super frustrating.

Lodging in nyc is now like 500 plus for a midrange hotel

You are fancy.
Look on east side Murray hill, plenty of rooms @150 during the week.