Anonymous wrote:I don't view marrying or how many kids you have as being "financial decisions." Silly and wholly unhelpful answers. OP's question is what decisions did you make with your money?
The best decisions that we made with our money were (1) to fully fund retirement accounts from the start and aggressively and (2) take advantage of the DC area's top public school and state university systems and not throw your money away on private schools.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Having only one child
Moving from Northeast to Dallas area, no state income tax and the weather is way better.
Except you have to live in Texas. Let's hope your child isn't a girl who gets herself in trouble some day.
Also, Dallas weather is not so great. It's generally about ten degrees hotter which may be nicer in the winter but brutal in the spring and summer.
Summer is hot for sure. But I’ll take a 95 dry day in August compared to a 90 degree swamp day in DC. Spring is glorious. As is fall. You guys stay in your HCOL bubble where the winters are god awful and the people are bitter.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Having only one child
Moving from Northeast to Dallas area, no state income tax and the weather is way better.
Except you have to live in Texas. Let's hope your child isn't a girl who gets herself in trouble some day.
Also, Dallas weather is not so great. It's generally about ten degrees hotter which may be nicer in the winter but brutal in the spring and summer.
Summer is hot for sure. But I’ll take a 95 dry day in August compared to a 90 degree swamp day in DC. Spring is glorious. As is fall. You guys stay in your HCOL bubble where the winters are god awful and the people are bitter.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Having only one child
Moving from Northeast to Dallas area, no state income tax and the weather is way better.
Except you have to live in Texas. Let's hope your child isn't a girl who gets herself in trouble some day.
My DC is 19 so no issue there and she goes to school out west. Honestly, I live in a town that is more diverse than any other I’ve ever lived in, both in the Boston area and in the Tri State area, the weather is fantastic, the politics are purple, technically blue in my town, I live 12 minutes from the airport, the weather is fantastic, drier than FL, the food is awesome, very diverse choices, the people are super nice and friendly, the state is open and has been open for the past year and our covid cases aren’t any worse than say California, people are living their lives, happily. It’s cool that you buy into the vilification of Texas from the news, but I’ll tell you, we all live in a 10 mile radius of our homes and the big politics don’t really impact day to day life. And my radius to pretty f’ing good.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Having only one child
Moving from Northeast to Dallas area, no state income tax and the weather is way better.
Except you have to live in Texas. Let's hope your child isn't a girl who gets herself in trouble some day.
Also, Dallas weather is not so great. It's generally about ten degrees hotter which may be nicer in the winter but brutal in the spring and summer.
Anonymous wrote:I don't view marrying or how many kids you have as being "financial decisions." Silly and wholly unhelpful answers. OP's question is what decisions did you make with your money?
The best decisions that we made with our money were (1) to fully fund retirement accounts from the start and aggressively and (2) take advantage of the DC area's top public school and state university systems and not throw your money away on private schools.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Having only one child
Moving from Northeast to Dallas area, no state income tax and the weather is way better.
Except you have to live in Texas. Let's hope your child isn't a girl who gets herself in trouble some day.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Having only one child
Moving from Northeast to Dallas area, no state income tax and the weather is way better.
Except you have to live in Texas. Let's hope your child isn't a girl who gets herself in trouble some day.
Anonymous wrote:Having only one child
Moving from Northeast to Dallas area, no state income tax and the weather is way better.